{"id":7201,"date":"2020-06-02T15:36:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7201"},"modified":"2021-04-18T15:42:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T14:42:19","slug":"eu-trade-with-china-trumps-freedom-for-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/06\/02\/eu-trade-with-china-trumps-freedom-for-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"EU: Trade with China Trumps Freedom for Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2020\/06\/02\/eu-trade-with-china-trumps-freedom-for-hong-kong\/eu-china-hong-kong\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7202\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7202\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eu-china-hong-kong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eu-china-hong-kong.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eu-china-hong-kong-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Europe\u2019s continued appeasement of China indicates that the EU will be a weak link in efforts by Western democracies to confront the leadership in Beijing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>EU: Trade With China Trumps Freedom for Hong Kong<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/16083\/eu-trade-china-hong-kong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | June 2, 2020<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has issued a predictably weak and equivocal declaration on China\u2019s growing interference in Hong Kong. European leaders, apparently fearful of retaliation by Beijing, have signaled that economic interests will take priority over the EU\u2019s much-trumpeted founding values of human rights, democracy and the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s continued appeasement of China indicates that the EU will be a weak link in efforts by Western democracies to confront the leadership in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>On May 29, the foreign ministers of EU member states met by video conference to discuss a common European response to China\u2019s plans to impose a sweeping law that would ban all activities in Hong Kong that are deemed to endanger China\u2019s national security.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-democracy activists and lawmakers say the law, aimed at crushing political dissent, would effectively end the autonomy the city enjoys from Beijing under the \u201cOne Country, Two Systems\u201d arrangement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/16083\/eu-trade-china-hong-kong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s continued appeasement of China indicates that the EU will be a weak link in efforts by Western democracies to confront the leadership in Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[220,7],"tags":[42,129,227,225],"class_list":["post-7201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-european-union-2","tag-hong-kong","tag-human-rights"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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