China's Xi says Beijing wants trade deal, can 'fight back'
- by Jerome Frank
- in World News
- — Nov 22, 2019
The latest potential hurdle came after Liu made his dinner-time comments, when the U.S. House voted 417-1 for legislation supporting Hong Kong protesters that has already been unanimously approved by the Senate.
Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation this week supporting the protests in Hong Kong, which have raged for almost half a year.
"Today, the Congress is sending an unmistakable message to the world that the United States stands in solidarity with freedom-loving people of Hong Kong, and we fully support their fight for freedom", House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said during the bill's consideration, according to Politico. The U.S. and China have not scheduled a new meeting to sign the deal.
"It is clear that this pushes the Chinese negotiation and makes it hard". It's now headed just an @Potus signature away from becoming law. "All of us feel exhausted but we will not give up trying to get out", said a 23-year-old demonstrator who gave his name only as Shiba as he ate noodles with egg and sausage in the protesters' canteen.
American lawmakers previously condemned alleged human rights violations against the protestors in the semi-autonomous region and adopted a bill banning the export of certain munitions to Hong Kong.
The protests in recent days have meanwhile, been focused on the campus of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, with fiery clashes that saw police firing tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters, who in turn shot arrows and lobbed Molotov cocktails back at officers.
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The new United States bill would require an annual review of that status, which could be revoked if the city's unique freedoms are quashed.
Nevertheless, financial markets are clinging to reports that neither country wants U.S. tariffs set to take effect from December 15 to go ahead because they would hit popular products such as smartphones, hurting USA customers and China's manufacturing base alike. "I think anything we get is minor, small, and a long-term relationship between the USA and China has been permanently injured". China wants to make a deal.
"I believe people inside the campus do not want their parents, friends ... to worry about them", Tang told reporters. Because I like what's happening right now.
"We urge the USA to grasp the situation, stop its wrongdoing before it's too late, prevent this act from becoming law [and] immediately stop interfering in Hong Kong affairs and China's internal affairs", Geng said at a daily news briefing. China has said it wants a promise from the US side to gradually reduce the tariffs already in place.
Chinese foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang urged Trump to overrule the legislation, saying it undermined China and America's interests. China assumed control of the former British colony in 1997 but promised to let Hong Kong retain a high-level of autonomy. After gradual escalations of sanctions and halting progress in trade talks this year, the two sides are working toward what they say will be a preliminary agreement to pave the way for tackling more complex issues.
Trump prompted questions about his commitment to protecting freedoms in Hong Kong when he referred in August to its mass street protests as "riots" that were a matter for China to deal with.
