The United States government began measures today to end its special status with Hong Kong, one month after Secretary of State Michael Pompeo told Congress that Hong Kong should no longer be considered autonomous from China. The new actions include suspending export license exceptions for sensitive U.S. technology and ending the export of defense equipment to Hong Kong. Both the Commerce and State Departments also said further restrictions are being evaluated.
Source:. https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/29/u-s-suspends-export-of-sensitive-tech-to-hong-kong-as-china-passes-new-national-security-law/
Source:. https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/29/u-s-suspends-export-of-sensitive-tech-to-hong-kong-as-china-passes-new-national-security-law/
Just to preface: I know that you're totally contributing to P&S with all of these posts, though I would just like to say that I hope you do (in the future) begin to eleborate more in your posts about what you want to talk about with the members here. There's totally nothing wrong with what you're doing, it is just going to look a bit spammy if you continue to just post links to articles and not say that much regarding the article itself.
But on the topic:
Not sure why the US had been exporting defense equipment to HK for all of this time. I do understand the trade of semiconductors and things along those lines though. But all of this is going to change (rightfully) as China is on their quest to take control of HK one step at a time. They don't do it so fast to the point where everyone is freaking out, but just fast enough where they're able to get away with it.
Plus we're in the middle of COVID so people are focused on something else while China imposes its will on HK. Horrible to see, hope the US continues to do more to stop this.
But on the topic:
Not sure why the US had been exporting defense equipment to HK for all of this time. I do understand the trade of semiconductors and things along those lines though. But all of this is going to change (rightfully) as China is on their quest to take control of HK one step at a time. They don't do it so fast to the point where everyone is freaking out, but just fast enough where they're able to get away with it.
Plus we're in the middle of COVID so people are focused on something else while China imposes its will on HK. Horrible to see, hope the US continues to do more to stop this.
I don't know why are you just saying like that. I am just sharing the news. And when I determine that this post should be shared then I take a part in this forum.
@gmjutt6 I’m not sure of your other posts, but this one seemed decent as the relevant information that was needed about this topic was there in the op.
@squatz1 may have referred to your others posts which I haven’t seen, but in any case if anyone feels a post doesn’t belong here, then one should use the report button and let mods take the final call.
Also coming back to the topic US had already announced this decision one month ago, and in my personal opinion it makes sense now as Hong Kong cannot be considered autonomous from China anymore, and hopefully this decision will force China to back down, and restore Hong Kong autonomous status like it was agreed in 1997.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States-Hong_Kong_Policy_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems
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Obviously I know that I can use the report button Juggy, but I think it'd be more effective to just let the person know on this thread rather then to wait weeks for someone from the moderation team to take action (not a jab at the mod team at all) -- More effective this way.
But onto the topic - HK isn't autonomous at all anymore. China has been slowly taking away the independence of the nation and just incorporating it as another part of the Chinese authoritarian / dictatorship machine. Sad to see.
People are still protesting over there (most recently regarding this new law) but the media really doesn't give it any attention. Can't really blame them though, people are much more interested in our own protests and the coronavirus.
