Jackie Chan sparks outrage over comments on Hong Kong protests

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It also says in Chinese that "the best cause may lead to the worst result", and calls for the public to embrace several different kinds of love, including love for freedom, rule of law, China, Hong Kong and themselves.

"Should the situation in Hong Kong deteriorate further into unrest uncontrollable" by Hong Kong's government, "the central government will not sit on its hands and watch", Liu Xiaoming, China's ambassador to the United Kingdom, told a London news conference on Thursday.

Protester Ah Lok, 22, shows injuries he suffered during clashes with police in Hong Kong on August 14, 2019.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and China's most senior foreign policy official, Yang Jiechi, a Politburo member, met in NY on Tuesday.

Hong Kong's protests erupted in June as millions of residents took to the streets to oppose a bill that would allow the extradition of criminal suspects to China.

Trump has fixated on the state of trade negotiations and at times has ignored the counsel of some of his most senior advisers to lower the temperature of the trade dispute with Beijing.

"Of course China wants to make a deal".

"The incident in Hong Kong won't be a repeat of the June 4th political incident in 1989", it said, insisting the country now had more sophisticated approaches. The physical danger, she said, paled in comparison to the feeling of being demonized by Hong Kong authorities.

"Due to the excessive use of force & lack of restraint by #HongKong authorities, I will soon introduce legislation to suspend US sales of munitions, police & crowd control equipment to the #HongKong police", he wrote. "But I'm the one that gets stuck with it and I'm the one that's going to do it". They clashed violently with police on Tuesday evening.

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Hundreds of China's People's Armed Police (PAP) on Thursday conducted exercises at a sports stadium in Shenzhen that borders Hong Kong a day after the U.S. State Department said it was "deeply concerned" about the movements, which have prompted worries that the troops could be used to break up protests.

The deployment of the PAP forces confirms earlier reports published by Chinese state-run media claiming the forces was already assembling in Shenzhen. In particular, USA exports of tear gas and other law enforcement equipment, such as pepper spray and police helmets, shields, batons, to Hong Kong require a license from the Department, and the Department consults with the Departments of State and Defense in reviewing such license applications.

Following five days of protests by youth and workers that paralysed Hong Kong airport, US President Donald Trump reinforced his calls for the Chinese regime to bring the upheaval under control. Or, China's government could declare a state of emergency exists in Hong Kong "that endangers national unity" and apply national laws, allowing for a PLA deployment.

"But it is unable to influence Beijing's attitude on the Hong Kong issue".

"We certainly wouldn't dream of telling them what they have to think about something".

"The Chinese have to look very carefully at the steps they take because people in America remember Tiananmen Square, they remember the picture of the man standing in front of the line of tanks, ' Bolton said". The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has called out Hong Kong's police for deploying crowd-control gear against protesters "in ways that are prohibited by worldwide norms and standards".

When the couple arrived on Sunday, they saw about 15,000 black-clad protesters sitting in the airport's arrival hall.

"We are concerned that China would consider again brutally putting down peaceful protests", said the statement Wednesday by Reps Eliot Engel of NY, the committee chairman, and Michael McCaul of Texas, the ranking Republican. "It is the lack of democracy that has produced a government that is very poor at defending Hong Kong's autonomy".

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