Is American Dependency Actually “Self-Determination” for Hong Kong?

In the beginning of May 2019, before the full onset of the movement, Martin Lee (first chairperson of the Democratic Party), Lee Cheuk-yan (first chairperson of the Labour Party), Nathan Law (Chairperson of Demosistō), and Mak Yin-ting (former chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalist Association), along with other Pan-Dem leaders, visited Washington, D.C. as a delegation to meet Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, among other Washington bigwigs. There, they called on the United States to oppose the proposed amendment of the Extradition Bill put forth by the Hong Kong government, threatened the review of the Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992, which grants Hong Kong separate treatment from Mainland China, and pushed the Hong Kong Democracy and Human Rights Act.