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American supremacy is now limited by the reality that it has to dismantle China’s BRI alliances with 138 countries (61.7% of the world population and 51.7% of world GDP). This is why the US and its allies are going on the offensive with sanctions, tariffs’ trade wars, technology bans, media restrictions and foreign interference under the pretext of ‘human rights’ concerns. The (c)overt’ US government interference in HKSAR affairs with aggressive support and funding for pro-independence ‘regime-change‘ recruits is just one of those disruptive policies to intensify the global anti-China sentiment that is already aggravated due to Covid-19, so as to destabilise China’s largest economic and geopolitical BRI alliances.
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.