china s hong kong and hong kong affairs up you know to china s internal affairs which i m going no foreign government or power has the right so in something more than a go. to me. beijing says it will use countermeasures if the u.s. continues quote down the wrong path. so let s talk about how this might well play out with a double journalist clifford cohen who spent 15 years covering china and chinese politics welcome to this place let s start with a fact this human rights and democracy act what would be its effect how would it work well i think the primary effect seems to have been to make china very angry indeed but in technical terms what it will do is it requires washington to keep an eye on hong kong which has special status since the handover in 1907 and to see how do move towards democracy in hong kong is continuing and how hong kong special for . gyms are being protective and if hong kong doesn t seem to be doing that. then
of the court october they ve been just a civilian without any violence just for testing against the government but it s what the government responds with violence with bullets with tear gas and so on it will end with we are now counting about 350 casualties people young people just calling for democracy calling for jobs and their rights but you want to make of the government response because there have been definite you re saying it s been a violent reaction is this just the way that iraq deals with demonstrations or is this getting out of control in fact it is getting all of the control exactly because the government s back from iranian influence tries to come in this image of this scenario what s we didn t happen in iran weeks ago just cut
applying extra pressure and it s all good on going trade will i think i think the human rights and democracy element is definitely a strong one but it is another aspect to this that definitely it will it will complicate the talks for china it s also reminded that of american power. the u.s. is also showing others has quite a good hand in these trade talks now there are things that it s maybe affecting the u.s. economy in the heartlands of it up but still i think the u.s. feels that it holds a lot of the cards in this in these trade talks so the fact is another another reminder of this cliff it thank you so much for joining us. now the fog of tear gas has become a defining picture off the hong kong of the last 6 months or than $10000.00 rounds have been 5 by police against pro-democracy protesters but is well into now on the larger on the effects of large amounts of tear gas and cathy jew and patricia levy
it s a trade war then hong kong explodes and pro-democracy candidates are elected to the city council now the united states has given itself the power to review beijing s actions in the chinese territory and sanction chinese officials and to abuse human rights there so what will beijing s threaten to firm countermeasures look like i m phil. and this is the day. this act of the us government is completely wrong they are attempting to interfere with hong kong affairs through this act and this plot will not work. with us president. and. that s the remarkable achievement of all the whole goal is with the courage and determination of. freedom and democracy it s not a program that. china s hong kong and hong kong affairs are purely china s internal
a prerequisite for keeping hong kong special trade status the government in beijing is really angry. young girl. is china s hong kong and hong kong affairs up your chinese internal affairs which i m going no foreign government or power has the right so intervene more than they go to. beijing says it will use countermeasures if the u.s. continues quote down the wrong path. so let s talk about how this might well play out with a double journalist clifford couldn t who spent a 15 years covering china and chinese politics but welcome to this place let s start with this that this human rights and democracy act what would be its effect how would it work well i think the primary effect seems to have been to make china very angry indeed but in technical terms what it will do is it requires washington to keep an eye. in hong kong which has special status since the handover in 1907