Washington

jan23

The Biden administration will continue to grant safe haven to certain Hong Kong residents, extending a program to allow them to remain in the United States without fear of deportation for another two years.

President Joe Biden on Thursday issued a memorandum “directing an extension and expansion of the deferral of removal of certain Hong Kong residents who are present in the United States.”

The move comes less than two weeks before the current Deferred Enforced Departure was set to expire. It follows similar actions by Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/26/politics/us-hong-kong-safe-haven-program/index.html

jan23

About 20% of the Americans in Hong Kong have left for various reasons over the past two years, the U.S. consul general in the semi-autonomous Chinese city said, drawing harsh criticism from Beijing for allegedly interfering in its affairs.

Hong Kong’s strict anti-COVID-19 measures and “diminishing freedoms” have “clearly impacted the city and the people in it,” Greg May said, citing the departure of roughly 15,000 Americans as one of the outcomes. He said about 70,000 Americans and 1,300 U.S. companies are currently present in Hong Kong.

https://www.manisteenews.com/news/article/consul-20-of-americans-in-hong-kong-left-in-17743039.php

ago21

O Consulado dos EUA na Região Administrativa Especial de Hong Kong convocou uma reunião com algumas empresas norte-americanas e as exortou a deixar a cidade, citando supostos riscos crescentes de fazer negócios na região, indicou nessa segunda-feira (9) o jornal "Global Times". Isso significa que os EUA estão tentando interferir nas atividades do mercado através de medidas administrativas, disse a fonte, que falou sob condição de anonimato. https://www.jb.com.br/internacional/2021/08/1032081-consulado-dos-eua-pressiona-empresas-americanas-a-deixarem-hong-kong-diz-midia.html

ago21

O presidente dos Estados Unidos Joe Biden ofereceu “abrigo temporário” aos residentes de Hong Kong nos EUA nesta 5ª feira (5.ago.2021). O chefe de Estado permitiu que milhares de pessoas prolonguem sua estada no país em resposta à repressão de Pequim ao território chinês. As informações são da Reuters. Em memorando assinado, Biden instruiu o Departamento de Segurança Interna a implementar um “adiamento da remoção” por até 18 meses para residentes de Hong Kong atualmente nos Estados Unidos, citando “razões de política externa convincentes”.

Leia mais no texto original: (https://www.poder360.com.br/internacional/biden-oferece-abrigo-temporario-para-residentes-de-hong-kong-nos-eua/)

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jul21

The American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong says US businesses there should study if the risks are worth the reward https://www.westport-news.com/news/article/Alert-The-American-Chamber-of-Commerce-in-Hong-16323473.php 

mar21

EEUU dice que la reforma electoral para Hong Kong aprobada por China supone un "asalto a la democracia" El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos ha condenado la reforma electoral para Hong Kong, aprobada este jueves por el Parlamento de China, ya que supone un "asalto a la democracia" de la región administrativa especial china. Leer más: https://www.notimerica.com/politica/noticia-amp-eeuu-eeuu-dice-reforma-electoral-hong-kong-aprobada-china-supone-asalto-democracia-20210312222813.html

nov20

Os Estados Unidos anunciaram novas sanções contra quatro responsáveis de Hong Kong, acusados de restringir liberdades no território por pressão da China, anunciou hoje o chefe da diplomacia norte-americana, Mike Pompeo.

https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/mundo/1623641/eua-anunciam-novas-sancoes-contra-responsaveis-de-hong-kong

ou20

De acordo com a lei norte-americana, o relatório deveria servir para designar os responsáveis pela violação das liberdades de que Hong Kong deveria beneficiar durante um período de 50 anos desde o regresso à China em 1997, ao abrigo do princípio “um país, dois sistemas”, e impor sanções em conformidade. No entanto, a diplomacia norte-americana optou por nomear apenas dez pessoas, que já tinham sido sancionadas pelos Estados Unidos em agosto. Os responsáveis na “lista negra” incluem a chefe do Executivo de Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, considerada pró-Pequim, além do diretor do gabinete de ligação que representa o governo chinês no território, Luo Huining, e do chefe da polícia da antiga colónia britânica, Chris Tang. https://www.plataformamedia.com/2020/10/15/hong-kong-eua-voltam-a-por-lider-carrie-lam-na-lista-negra/

out20
The Hong Kong government has lashed out at the US State Department for interfering in Chinese affairs after it proposed to give residents priority resettlement in America as refugees, saying persecution did not exist in the financial hub.Opposition figures welcomed the move, while leading pro-establishment lawmaker Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee called the decision another political gesture that was unlikely to help protesters under police investigation. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3104003/hong-kong-government-slams-us-adding-city-refugee-quota?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mailchimp&utm_campaign=enlz-scmp_today&utm_content=20201003&tpcc=enlz-scmp_today&MCUID=3d06933c40&MCCampaignID=0671e1cc6d&MCAccountID=3775521f5f542047246d9c827&tc=11 

ago20

The Trump administration on Wednesday suspended or terminated three bilateral agreements with Hong Kong related to extradition and tax exemptions, the latest in a series of measures that escalate tensions between Washington and Beijing. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/politics/trump-china-hong-kong.html

agot

EUA vão rotular produtos importados de Hong Kong como “Made in China”

7/8

The Trump administration on Friday targeted 11 individuals with sanctions over Beijing's crackdown on Hong Kong, including Carrie Lam, the chief executive of the autonomous territory.
The sanctions targeting Lam and several other Hong Kong and Chinese officials is the latest escalation as tensions rise between the U.S. and Beijing.
"The United States stands with the people of Hong Kong and we will use our tools and authorities to target those undermining their autonomy,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.
The Treasury Department cited Lam for "implementing Beijing’s policies of suppression of freedom and democratic processes." The sanctions freeze any assets the 11 individuals have in the United States, though Lam has said she does not have assets in the country. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/511031-trump-hits-hong-kong-leader-with-sanctions

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25/7
More Hong Kong residents support President Donald Trump to continue leading the United States after elections this November, while in Taiwan, Democratic nominee Joe Biden eked out a slight edge, an exclusive Newsweek poll conducted by London-based polling firm Redfield & Wilton Strategies showed. In Hong Kong, a plurality of respondents, or 36 percent, said they would prefer Trump to win the 2020 election. However, the findings were close. About 33 percent of them said they backed Biden, while 31 percent said they did not know. In Taiwan, respondents appeared to be largely indifferent about the race. About 44 percent of those surveyed said they did not know who their preferred candidate would be. But of those with an opinion, Biden slightly edged out Trump with 29 percent of those surveyed saying they'd prefer to see him take office in November as opposed to the 26 percent of them choosing the current leader. https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-hong-kong-backs-trump-taiwan-prefers-biden-poll-1519815

25/7

Beijing’s Tightrope: Stand Tough, but Avoid a Full Rupture With the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/world/asia/us-china-consulate.html

25/7

More Hong Kong residents want a U.S. policy that treats the special administrative region differently than the rest of China, even as President Donald Trump moves to treat the territory as one and the same as the mainland, an exclusive Newsweek poll conducted by London-based polling firm Redfield & Wilton Strategies showed. A plurality of 46 percent of respondents said that "the United States should treat Hong Kong differently to the rest of China" when given the choice of which U.S. policy more closely matched to their viewpoints. Fewer than a third, 31 percent, said that "the United States should treat Hong Kong in the same way that it treats the rest of China," and 23 percent said they did not know which they preferred. https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-most-hong-kong-want-policy-different-china-1520373

“Today marks a sad day for Hong Kong, and for freedom-loving people across China,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said after the law was passed.

“(China) promised 50 years of freedom to the Hong Kong people, and gave them only 23,” he said, adding further US countermeasures would be announced.

Washington has previously announced Hong Kong no longer has sufficient autonomy from the mainland to justify special trade privileges.

“Per President (Donald) Trump’s instruction, we will eliminate policy exemptions that give Hong Kong different and special treatment, with few exceptions,” Pompeo added.

In Congress, a group of bipartisan legislators tabled a bill that could provide refugee protection for Hong Kongers. https://en.brinkwire.com/news/how-the-world-reacted-to-hong-kongs-new-security-law/

22/7

Em plena escalada de tensão entre a China e vários países ocidentais, particularmente Reino Unido e Estados Unidos, o secretário de Estado norte-americano, Mike Pompeo, foi a Londres denunciar a “ameaça causada pelo Partido Comunista Chinês” e anunciou a intenção de criar uma “coligação” de países que “compreendem a liberdade e a democracia” e que sejam capazes de conter as ambições de Pequim. https://www.publico.pt/2020/07/21/mundo/noticia/pompeo-londres-anunciar-coligacao-china-1925335

20/7
Let's dispense with the idea that Donald Trump cares about democracy in Hong Kong.
The US President spent three years dazzled by Xi Jinping, and told the Chinese President last year that he'd keep quiet about Hong Kong's protests while they were talking trade. But the coronavirus crisis has quickened a reordering of the global balance of power -- and now Trump has a political incentive to be the tough-on-China populist he promised to be back in 2016.
With the world fixated on public health and America's reputation shredded by its world-worst response to Covid-19, Beijing sees an opening. It's spitting back at US rhetoric, planting its flag everywhere in the South China Sea, bringing Hong Kong to heel and piling diplomatic pressure on Australia. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/16/world/meanwhile-in-america-july-16-intl/index.html

20/7

A goal of America’s presence in Hong Kong should be to keep as many relationships open with as wide a range of key figures as possible. The more American officials and organizations can preserve a productive presence in Hong Kong, the better the odds that elements of the “one country, two systems” model can be preserved. Forestalling worse outcomes and playing for time until the tide turns is not entirely inspiring, but sometimes it is the best available option. It certainly is better than pursuing a “destroy the city to save it” approach of wrecking Hong Kong to prevent Beijing from deriving benefits from it. America will need to keep front of mind the interests of Hong Kong’s middle class and youth, who will serve as important actors in the city’s future political development. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/07/17/why-now-understanding-beijings-new-assertiveness-in-hong-kong/ 

Ryan Hass

The Michael H. Armacost Chair

Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center

Interim Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies

jul20

Na terça-feira, Donald Trump assinou o decreto que encerra o estatuto económico e comercial especial que os EUA concediam a Hong Kong, além de uma lei que prevê a imposição de novas sanções à China, por “extinguir a liberdade” na cidade, um centro financeiro internacional e regional. “Hoje [terça-feira], assinei legislação e uma ordem executiva para responsabilizar a China pelas suas acções agressivas contra o povo de Hong Kong”, afirmou Donald Trump, citado pelo The Guardian. “Hong Kong vai passar a ser tratado da mesma forma que tratamos a China continental”, acrescentou.
O decreto assinado pelo Presidente norte-americano põe fim às regalias aos cidadãos com passaporte de Hong Kong, que passam a ter tratamento semelhante aos cidadãos chineses, e suspende vários acordos entre a região administrativa especial e Washington, nomeadamente ao nível da extradição, treino de polícias, exportação de armas e programas de defesa e de cooperação entre universidades e centros de investigação. O decreto permite ainda o congelamento de propriedades e bens de estrangeiros ligados à nova lei de segurança nacional ou que estejam envolvidos em casos de violação dos direitos humanos. https://www.publico.pt/2020/07/15/mundo/noticia/china-ameaca-retaliar-fim-estatuto-especial-hong-kong-aprovado-eua-1924473

 jul20

O diretor do FBI considerou os alegados atos de espionagem e roubo por parte da China "a maior ameaça a longo prazo" para o futuro dos Estados Unidos. Christopher Wray acusou Pequim de ter utilizado hackers para obter informação de farmacêuticas norte-americanas sobre progressos na luta contra o novo coronavírus. Num discurso que durou quase uma hora no Hudson Institute, em Washington, o responsável pelo Departamento Federal de Investigação (FBI) considerou a China “a maior ameaça a longo prazo para a informação e propriedade intelectual da nossa nação e para a nossa vitalidade económica”, avançando ainda que o FBI tem atualmente mais de duas mil investigações abertas contra o Governo chinês https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/diretor-do-fbi-arrasa-china-e-a-maior-ameaca-para-os-eua_n1243241

jul20

Much like Berlin during the latter half of the 20th Century, Hong Kong has been the flashpoint between freedom and tyranny. Hong Kongers have fought for the same freedoms and values we cherish in America. The right to say what you want to say, the right to convene the way you want to convene, the right to worship the way you want to worship, all of these are essential things that we in the U.S. and, those in Hong Kong, have enjoyed. These are valuable rights that sometimes we take for granted. Sometimes it takes something happening in other parts of the world—like Hong Kong—to make us appreciate these back home. The United States must show Hong Kong that we saw them, we heard them, we value them, and we offer them safe harbor in the U.S BY REP. JOHN CURTIS (R-UTAH),.https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/506010-the-us-must-stand-with-the-people-of-hong-kong-as-they

jul20

“Despite the strong US rhetoric against the national security law, the US measures taken so far have been quite modest,” Wu of Oxford Economics wrote in a report last week. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/07/china-passes-national-security-law-on-hong-kong-but-creates-more-inflows.html

5/7

Hong Kong is really the global gateway for China because of the legal infrastructures and the people's trust in the fairness and flow of information. People do business there and settle business disputes there. Now, international businesses are thinking about relocating to other places. Hong Kong's special status and special role has a lot to do with U.S. policy to recognize Hong Kong as a separate economic entity, a separate custom territory, from mainland China on the condition that Hong Kong is sufficiently autonomous from Beijing. Now that the State Department of the U.S. has declared that they no longer can treat Hong Kong as separate from mainland China, they are going to revoke a lot of trading privileges Hong Kong has. Most recently, the State Department declared that the U.S. no longer exempts Hong Kong from its export control regime, which bans or heavily regulates the export of high tech equipment and software, covering a lot of things—high-performance computer chips, optical fiber, and engineering software—that have U.S. components to China. Chinese high-tech companies have been using Hong Kong as a kind of a backdoor to get a hold of these hardware, software, and equipment. There will be a major setback to China's high tech ambition when the U.S. finally shuts this backdoor.

 Ho-fung Hung, a professor in the Department of Sociology and the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, has researched and written about political economy, protest, and nation-state formation in China and East Asia for the past 20 years https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/07/04/hong-kong-security-law/

jul20

As a largely leaderless movement, the Hong Kong protests have made no official request for international assistance. But some prominent activists including Jimmy Lai and Joshua Wong called on Trump to hit China hard with sanctions, even to the point of revoking the city’s special trading status. Wong had testified last year in Washington in favor of the bill, seeking to put pressure on China. On the streets of Hong Kong, some protesters have made clear their interest in U.S. support by waving American flags, singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” and calling on Trump to “liberate” Hong Kong.

On May 27, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo notified Congress that the Trump administration no longer regarded Hong Kong as autonomous from mainland China. On June 29, Commerce Secretary William Ross said the special status had therefore been revoked. Revoking the special status would be “the nuclear option” and “the beginning of the death of Hong Kong as we know it,” said Steve Tsang, director of the University of London’s SOAS China Institute.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/what-hong-kong-losing-its-special-status-would-mean/2020/07/01/a6586164-bbfc-11ea-97c1-6cf116ffe26c_story.html

27/(6
The Hong Kong government has slammed new US legislation that is paving the way for targeted sanctions against Beijing and Hong Kong officials, though local observers insist they expect relatively little impact on individuals and businesses in the city. In a strongly worded statement released on Friday night, a government spokesman said the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, passed unanimously by the United States Senate as a response to Beijing’s planned national security law for the city, was “totally unacceptable” and that Congress’ criticism of local affairs was “seriously misleading and absolutely unfounded”. The legislation passed on Thursday, which comes on the heels of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, seeks to establish mandatory sanctions for individuals or companies that have “materially contributed” to China’s failure to comply with the 1985 Sino-British Joint Declaration or the Basic Law, the city’s mini-constitution. It would also impose sanctions on foreign financial institutions that have “knowingly conducted significant transactions” with those individuals and entities.

25/6

Foreign and Taiwan forces also joined in, fanning the flames, encouraging the opposition and activists with funds and materiel, with support and protection. The United States passed a Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, directly intruding into China’s legal space and the Hong Kong system. These acts all contradicted the original purpose of “one-country, two-systems.” https://hongkongfp.com/2020/06/25/national-security-law-a-second-handover-for-hong-kong/

jun20

The US Senate approved legislation on Thursday that would strengthen the US government’s ability to sanction those violating China’s commitments to Hong Kong under the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law.Introduced by Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, the Hong Kong Autonomy Act passed via unanimous consent, which is used to pass legislation not considered controversial. Its passage came after a Republican senator had blocked the bill on Wednesday, citing a request by the White House for technical amendments. https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3090631/us-senate-passes-bill-would-punish-china-hong-kong?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mailchimp&utm_campaign=enlz-scmp_today&utm_content=20200626&MCUID=3d06933c40&MCCampaignID=d5f13892ff&MCAccountID=3775521f5f542047246d9c827&tc=7

jun20

Unfortunately, this happy state of affairs for Hong Kong could be over. Beijing’s unilateral decision to impose a national security law on Hong Kong despite local and international opposition is bound to trigger an equally forceful response by the United States. As President Donald Trump’s re-election bid looks increasingly remote amid the COVID-19 outbreak and ensuing economic recession, he may be tempted to seize his “Falklands moment” in Hong Kong. https://thediplomat.com/2020/06/chinas-great-wall-of-finance-shows-first-signs-of-a-crack-in-hong-kong/

Jun20

China Is Going to Be a Big Issue in the 2020 Campaign. But What Does That Mean?

An April poll from Pew showed that 66 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of China and 62 percent view it as a major threat. Further, a May poll from Harvard-Harris found that 76 percent of Americans are very or somewhat dissatisfied with China’s response to the coronavirus crisis. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/china-is-a-2020-campaign-issue-how-will-democrats-play-it.html

As demanded by the pro-democracy movement, the Trump administration accepted the argument that the ‘one country, two systems’ model had been terminated and signalled its intention to withdraw privileges granted to the territory. This will hurt Hong Kong’s economy, though the pro-democracy movement is willing to pay the price too. US–China relations have been deteriorating as the US government and public are re-assessing the nature of their relationship with China. Indeed, US engagement with China has been replaced by containment. It perceives China as a threat to US values and global leadership. Hong Kong is now high on the agenda of this bilateral relationship. It appears that the Trump administration is the only Western government ready to impose sanctions on China on behalf of Hong Kong. Further, the 2020 US presidential election campaign may help to maintain the US public’s attention on Hong Kong. Joseph Yu Shek Cheng is a retired professor of political science based in Hong Kong.

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/06/24/the-end-of-one-country-two-systems/