In Hong Kong, the government expressed “extreme regret” after Trump signed legislation requiring an annual review of freedoms in Hong Kong and banning the sale of crowd control equipment like tear gas. And Beijing’s liaison office in the city condemned Washington’s “disgusting conduct,” saying it would bring “trouble and chaos” to Hong Kong. On Thursday, police entered the campus of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, to which they have laid siege for days. Sunny Cheung, a student who testified before Congress in support of the legislation, told AFP it would give “Hong Kong people timely leverage to press Hong Kong and Beijing further on democratic reform”. “It’s going very well but at the same time we want to see it go well in Hong Kong,” he said.

Source: Egypt Independent November 28, 2019 07:18 UTC