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#China complains to US ambassador about Trump administration ‘bullying’

#China complains to US ambassador about Trump administration ‘bullying’

July 16, 2020 | 9:38am

China complained to the US ambassador that the Trump administration’s recent actions on Hong Kong and trade is a “bullying” tactic that will be met with a “counterattack,” as Secretary of State Pompeo is predicting Beijing will “absolutely” pay a price for the spread of the coronavirus.

Vice Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang summoned US Ambassador Terry Branstad to Beijing on Wednesday to criticize President Trump’s signing of the Hong Kong Autonomous Act that revokes its special trade status.

“I want to warn the US sternly that any bullying and unfairness imposed on China by the US will meet resolute counterattack from China, and the US attempt to obstruct China’s development is doomed to failure,” he said, according to state media.

Trump signed the act Tuesday at the White House in retaliation for China’s imposing a draconian national security law on Hong Kong intended to quell pro-democracy protests and end dissent.

It authorizes sanctions against Chinese Communist Party officials responsible for the crackdown and ends Hong Kong’s special trade status, meaning it will be treated the same as mainland China and will face the same tariffs the administration slapped on billions of dollars worth of Chinese products.

Trump also said he has zero interest in meeting again with Chinese President Xi Jinping over trade issues because of the way Beijing handled the coronavirus pandemic.

Protesters hold up blank papers during a demonstration in a mall in Hong Kong.
Protesters hold up blank papers during a demonstration in a mall in Hong Kong.ISAAC LAWRENCE/AFP via Getty Ima

“We made a great trade deal, but as soon as the deal was done, the ink wasn’t even dry and they hit us with the plague. So right now I’m not interested in talking to China about another deal,” Trump told CBS News in an interview on Tuesday.

“I’m interested in doing other things with China,” he said.

Branstad, in a statement issued Thursday by the US embassy, said he expressed the US’ “deep concerns about China’s decisions to erode Hong Kong’s fundamental freedoms and to explain the details” of the president’s executive order on Hong Kong.

“Hong Kong no longer warrants treatment under United States law in the same manner as United States laws were applied to Hong Kong before July 1, 1997,” Branstad said in the statement, referring to when Britain returned Hong Kong to China.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo echoed Trump’s sentiments about China’s handling of the pandemic, saying Beijing will “absolutely” pay a price for the spread of the coronavirus.

“I think the world will absolutely make them pay a price,” Pompeo said in an interview with The Hill on Wednesday. “You can see it, every place I go, every foreign minister that I talk to, they recognize what China has done to the world.”

Terry Branstad
Terry BranstadAFP via Getty Images

The Trump administration has blasted China for downplaying the seriousness of the virus after it was first reported in Wuhan, China, in late December.

“I’m very confident that the world will look at China differently and engage with them on fundamentally different terms than they did before this catastrophic disaster,” Pompeo said.

With Post wires

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