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Written by: Hu Longhua
2020-05-30 08:22
Last update date: 2020-05-30 08:22US President Donald Trump announced measures on May 29 to fight back against China's "Hong Kong version of the National Security Law." However, American scholars believe that the measures announced by Trump are not so significant.
Reuters reported on May 29 that Trump did not propose a time frame for advancing these initiatives, indicating that he may be fighting for time before deciding whether to take the harshest measures.
The report said that Trump may be worried that a more severe break with China may overturn his hard-earned first-stage trade agreement with the world's second-largest economy, and he has been counting on the major US agricultural states to obtain economic benefits from it.
The report said he must also consider the impact on more than 1,300 US companies with offices in Hong Kong.
Bloomberg reported on May 29 that Derek Scissors, a China analyst with the conservative research institute American Enterprise Research Institute, believes that Trump's statement on the 29th is not as significant as the president suggested.
He said: "On the issue of China, the President is not constrained by anything. It is also a disappointing thing in Hong Kong policy. Nothing happened."
The New York Times reported on May 29 that it was unclear from Trump ’s statement whether he would issue a formal executive order to completely end his special relationship with Hong Kong.
The report pointed out that the Trump administration can first take piecemeal actions—for example, to impose the same tariffs on goods from Hong Kong as the US on goods from China—and then take the final, major steps.
Hong Kong version of the National Security Law
