Politicians, both Republicans and Democrats, and people who, with or without credential write columns on US foreign are calling for the US to stand up to China in support the “democratic resistance” in Hong Kong.
https://www.ft.com/content/d94c4bd2-becb-11e9-b350-db00d509634e
https://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-hong-kong-autonomy/
Some of these politicians are candidates for the Democrats presidential candidate in 2020.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2020-daily-trail-markers-democrats-take-aim-at-trump-over-hong-kong/
President Trump is being urged by these people to do something...... But Trump is doing nothing more than expressing hope that “thing could be worked out”.
Heck, even some members of Trump’s administration are demanding some type of forceful response
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trumps-hong-kong-caution-isolates-him-from-congress-allies-and-advisers/ar-AAFRwt0#page=2
Talk is cheap. It seems in this case Trump understands the reality. There is nothing the US to influence how Chins decides to react to these riots, short of going to war against China.
Maybe only people who have relatives or close friends in the US military who are deployed somewhere in the western Pacific should be allowed to argue that the US should “do something” about whatever is going on in Hong Kong... ?
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