Administer chinas takeover of hong kong. Blake burman is at the white house as we await the president s remarks. Blake, what are you hearing from the folks at the white house about what he will be telling us . Reporter hi, there, lou. One source telling me the president will make remarks about china, upcoming a press conference from the rose garden we expect to hear from the president moments from now. You mentioned reuters report about hong kong, the autonomy act passed by congress. Keep in mind with one thing on that, the president , that was signed or passed, rather by both the house and the senate, overwhelming support earlier this month, without getting too granular, the way that it works is, the president has to sign that into law or at least take action on that, give or take within 10 days. That puts the clock at about that time that the president would have to take some sort of action as today, on the hong kong autonomy act which would allow, call for sanctions on certain individuals that the president would want to sanction inside of china. So it is certainly possible that is what we will be seeing and hearing from the president in the rose garden moments from now. As ive been told it will be about china, certainly the timetable on hong kong and autonomy act, that the president could take that up any minute now. Lou, white house described it as a press conference. That has half a dozen or so different meetings around here. From what i can tell you there are many chairs around the rose garden. The setup would lead to a press conference. Well learn in the president takes questions from the media, anymore from now. Lou. Lou blake, the granularity, focused on the legislative process and the signing of autonomy act but less so what the president will be talking about. I presume no one has told you, am i correct on that . Reporter what ive been directly pointed to is china. So ive been told to expect lou that is a big subject. Reporter that is a big subject. You have got huawei, youve got the trade deal. You have got hong kong. There is a lot under that umbrella. Reuters reporting on the autonomy act, if you look at the calendar the way it shakes out it would certainly make sense that is what the president talks about or signs upcoming. Lou. Lou as the president would say, china. As to the press conference, the News Conference i think you were right about the number of interpretations for every reporter that shows up there, what they should be about. Blake burman. Thanks for joining us, bringing us up to date. Appreciate it. Trump administration drawing a hardline against chinese aggression in the South China Sea. Secretary of state mike pompeo said yesterday most of chinas pursuits in the South China Sea are unlawful. The secretary said, quote, the prc, the peoples republic of china, has no legal grounds to unilaterally impose its will on the region. The world will not allow alba screening to treat the South China Sea as its maritime empire. America stands with our Southeast Asia allies and partners to protect their sovereign rights consistent with their rights and obligations under international law. Secretary pompeos comments come as china increases its aggression and its military build up. The Chinese Military says it begun the fifth generation of the Stealth Fighter jet, j120. The modified stealth jetfighter was attended by the general of the Peoples Liberation army. The chinese announcement of the jet mass production, comes as the state Department Approved 23 billiondollar sale of f35 fighter jets to japan. The Trump Administration earning another victory today in their battle against chinas access to critical 5g infrastructure. The United Kingdom has made a uturn on its proposed policy. Now saying that the British Government will ban the purchase of huawei equipment for its 5g network. The uk had originally allowed huawei limited access but culture secretary Oliver Dowden followed recent review of u. S. Restrictions at that bar huawei and its suppliers from using American Technology and software National Security center consequences of u. S. Actions. The nc sb now reported to ministers they have significantly changed their security assessment of a huawei presence in the uk 5g networks. The uk can no longer be confident it will be able to guarranty the security of future huawei 5g equipment affected by the change in u. S. Foreign direct product rules. Lou that is a british form of uturn. In a statement, secretary of state pompeo said with the decision, the uk join as growing list of countries around the world standing up for their National Security, prohibiting the use of untrusted highrisk vendors. The uks ban on huawei equipment takes effect december 31st, plenty of time for adjustments. British Telecom Companies also have until, well, 2027 to strip their 5g infrastructure of all huawei products and components. As the president moves toward new action against chinas take over of hong kong, the National Basketball association is now under fire because it censored prohong kong slogans on their official online store. Fans who wanted customized jerseys with the phrase, Free Hong Kong on the back were denied while slogans endorsing anticop, antisemitic, antitrump rhetoric were permitted. This is, this is todays nba. Hillary vaughn in washington with the latest on the story. Hillary . Reporter hi, lou. The nba store censored fans from putting that phrase, Free Hong Kong on their customized jerseys it did raise some eyebrows because as you mentioned it did allow phrases like kill cops to be added to the customized jerseys. Those were not censored. It put the nbas business dealings in china under a microscope. The company that runs the nba online store that ban on the phrase, Free Hong Kong was an accident, saying this in a statement quote, the phrase was inadvertently prohibited on all our League Online store sitess it has now been fixed but now the. [ba billion dollar behemoth of a business in beijing is catching lawmakers attention in congress. Senator josh hawley wants nba commissioner adam silver subpoenaed by the Senate Judiciary committee to disclose the nba financial ties to the Chinese Communist party. The nba makes billions of dollars every year. They wont say a word about what china is doing in the world. They wont say a word what china is doing in the hong kong or the concentration camps. Why . Because the nba makes so much money. Reporter the nba brings in 500 million every year in direct revenue from china. Nba china which is a separate business arm of the nba is valued at 5 billion. They have a 1. 5 billion deal with chinas streaming platform, tencent. Their fan base there is huge. 500 million chinese fans tuned into at least one nba game last season. That gives the Chinese Government that owns the airwaves in the country a lot of power how many eyes tune into the nba games there n october after the Houston Rockets executive tweeted support for the hong kong protesters, the nba live games went dark. They are taken off the air. It also provoked a number of chinese businesses to temporarily ban selling apparel from the Houston Rockets. The nba commissioner adam silver said the the stand i dont have had a on the leagues bottom line. Only 10 of their revenue comes in from china, but it is expected to double by 2030, bringing in about 20 of the nbas revenue. Lou . Lou hillary, very quickly, where are we then with the slogan fans can have on their backs of nba jerseys . They can have slogans about Free Hong Kong . They can still have all of that anticop, antitrump nonsense on their backs . Reporter so the Free Hong Kong slogan has been greenlighted. Fans can put that on their jerseys alternatively antipolice rhetoric like kill cops is banned. They tell me they have a system in place, if for instance a customization goes through has profanity or derogatory language directed towards the police, that sale ultimately would be rejected. This he have Quality Controls in check to make sure those orders do not go through. Those actual jerseys dont get manufactured. Lou. Lou good toe hear. Thanks so much. Hillary vaughn. Appreciate it. We have a stacked lineup here tonight on all the latest news recording china as well as President Trumps remarks at white house from the rose garden. Well be joined tonight bit hudson institutes dr. Michael pillsbury, one of the foremost experts on china, joining us as well, gordon chang, from the gait stone institute, one of the foremost experts on asia. 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We expect this to be effectively the signing of the autonomy act and the president taking the first steps to apply sanctions. Your thoughts. Well, this is a very good act that passed both houses of congress unanimously, lou, and its all it serves the United States government into the protection of hong kongs autonomy. The way it does that, there will be a department of state report on anyone whos helping china crack down in hong kong and violate 1984 treaty with the british. So its a very big step. Its a very good thing, and its about as bipart an as vow bipartisan as you get. Passed both houses unanimously. Lou bipartisan, a first step. But what does it actually do for the people of hong kong who have lost their liberty and hong kong itself which is no longer autonomous, far from it there now under the thumbs of beijing absolutely . It doesnt do anything to help the people of hong kong, lou, with their awe on the and their struggles autonomy. The important thing this is not being said out loud, but its extremely important. Some people wanted to close the consulate in hong kong. 200 officers, they monitor monitor the crackdown on human rights. I think the president s decided to keep that consulate open, enter the fight to keep hong kong as free as possible. Hong kongs part of china. Mrs. Thatcher gave it back to china. Its not independent. So they can crack down on people who demand independence. But to try to preserve hong kongs freedoms another 25 years or so, its very important that we keep our really large consulate and our officers and intelligence agencies there and continue the fight. Not just to give up, go home and forget hong kong. Lou well, i think theres something of a hobsons choices and a bit of a false choice at that. There is a lot in between those two possibilities that the United States could be doing, mike, as you well know. This business, this is a sorry business when the United States lets a territory just simply be subsumed by china without response. And i mean, a significant response. Were better than that. Or at least we used to be. Why in the world are we dancing around this . I mean, we just lost 140,000 americans to the china virus. We have just watched china take over hong kong. Where in the hell does this end, and when does this great nation rise up and say no more and there will be an accounting . I think the accounting or the punishment is going to have to cover several areas. One is not helping us at all on the virus even inflicting harm on us. Secondly, is their unlawful activities in the South China Sea. Third just no progress on phase two trade deal, the subsidies and the thing on corporations. Theres four or five more examples where china is just really stiffing the president. Theyre not saying anything. They dont i check every thursday to see new purchases, theres no new purchases of our Agricultural Products this thursday. Lou do you also check intellectual property . [laughter] because the them. S rage on. Were talking about the thefts rage on. Were talking 600 billion a year. Mike, i i mean, i understand, you know, this is an absurdity and sometimes the only response is laughter to absurdity. But the fact of the matter is this country is being pillaged by china, and they are thumbing their noses at this president , at this nation if, and theyre doing so to terrible effect on the people of hong kong and the region. For gods sake, weve got to be better than this. I think we can be better. Theres a number of steps the president , no doubt, is considering, lou, that could be very harsh. But once we start down that path, it means u. S. Investments, u. S. Trade, general u. S. Relations with china better be really are going to be really severely set back for generations. Im not s