My Take | Planned US bill on Hong Kong is the worst kind of hypocrisy
- The bipartisan Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act is an example of the type of double standards that actually cost many lives
Support your friends and stick it to your enemies. People as well as nations do that all the time. But when America does it, it usually claims to be holier than thou, doing it on high moral principles and for your own good.
Washington has been most vocal about the unrest in Hong Kong over the past three months. The bipartisan Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act is an example of the worst kind of American hypocrisy, the type of double standards that actually cost many lives.
What will happen if it passes in the US Congress? At best, it will achieve nothing. At worst, it will harm America’s own business interests in the city as well as hurt the very people and their livelihoods it claims to protect. But change Beijing’s policy on Hong Kong? It’s rather another attempt to exploit the domestic turmoil in Hong Kong as part of America’s multipronged “cold war” against China.
Americans fret about rubber bullets, tear gas and beanbags fired by Hong Kong police!
One close American ally uses the most powerful and advanced weapons the US sold to them to maim and kill hundreds of thousands of civilians in another country, which is among the world’s poorest.
