Doyle McManus: Trump's silence on Hong Kong is making America weaker
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Aug 19, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - As China and its unruly possession Hong Kong teeter on the edge of catastrophe, President Trump has issued a series of messages with a common theme: If his friend Xi Jinping decides to crack down on the city's pro-democracy movement, the United States will understand.
It's the wrong message - not only because it abandons American values, but because it hurts America's strategic interests as well.
Here's how Trump described the Hong Kong crisis two weeks ago: "They've had riots for a long
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