{"id":2984,"date":"2019-06-26T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2023-10-16T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T18:50:16","slug":"hong-kong-needs-americas-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/nl\/2019\/06\/26\/hong-kong-needs-americas-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Still Needs America\u2019s Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>EXCERPT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s next for Hong Kong? You can bet that China\u2019s ruler, Xi Jinping, is forming an answer to that question.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party is smarting from a temporary setback in the troublesome city that long has been a beacon of freedom and prosperity in Asia. Tensions are still simmering in the wake of this month\u2019s peaceful protests, which brought&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/la-fg-hong-kong-protest-20190616-story.html\">more than 2 million protesters<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 at least a quarter of Hong Kong\u2019s population \u2014to the city\u2019s streets. Facing public outrage, the city government suspended an extradition bill that would have given China power to ignore Hong Kong\u2019s rule of law. Now pro-democracy leaders are calling for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3015897\/hong-kong-government-stays-invisible-avoid-more-extradition\">further protests<\/a>&nbsp;during the G-20.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>At the time of publishing, Marion Smith was executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/civil-rights\/450145-hong-kong-still-needs-americas-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Hill<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong is to China what West Berlin was to the Soviet Union: proof that communism impoverishes and freedom enriches.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-op-ed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - 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