Accomplished former journalist Matthew Pottinger, joined the Trump administration in 2017 as senior director of the National Security Council’s Asia division. “Take Hong Kong, where demonstrators took to the streets by the millions last year to protest Beijing’s efforts to undermine Hong Kong’s rule of law. It demolished Deng Xiaoping’s “One Country, Two Systems” framework and deprived Hong Kong of the autonomy that made it the most spectacular city in Asia. Jordan Schneider, an adjust fellow at the Center for New American Security’s Technology and National Security Program, said the speech’s impact may be muted inside China. Pottinger said that a second-term Trump administration would “build on the dynamics” now in place in the relationship, without providing more details.-Bloomberg/The Standard

Source: The Standard October 24, 2020 04:52 UTC