Posted on 08/09/2019 7:12:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The U.S. State Department’s spokeswoman called China a “thuggish regime” for releasing personal information on an American diplomat who met with opposition protesters in Hong Kong, escalating a war of words over protests that have wracked the territory.
“I don’t think that leaking an American diplomat’s private information — pictures, names of their children — I don’t think that that’s a formal protest, that is what a thuggish regime would do,” Morgan Ortagus said at a State Department briefing on Thursday. “That’s not how a responsible nation would behave.”
Asked if she was directly calling China a “thuggish regime,” she responded, “Yeah.”
Ortagus was referring to Julie Eadeh, a political counselor at the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong-based Ta Kung Pao newspaper, which is linked to China’s Communist Party, published a photo of Eadeh meeting with opposition leaders in Hong Kong, along with two other photographs of her. One showed her holding up an image of a child and the other showed her in a helmet and flak jacket.
Zhao Lijian, China’s deputy ambassador in Islamabad, Pakistan, linked to a series of photos and tweeted: “Embarrassing! The black hand was caught red-handed!” He also called Eadeh “a subversion expert at the State Department.”
Earlier Thursday, the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong said it had formally protested to the U.S. over Eadeh’s meetings. China’s foreign ministry has previously said the ongoing unrest in Hong Kong was “the creation of the U.S.”
Ortagus’ accusation is “defamation and slander” and reflects a “bandit logic,” the Office of the Commissioner of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong said in a statement on Friday. The comments “expose the U.S.’s hegemonic thinking,” which China strongly resents and resolutely opposes, it said.
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They were just following Joaquin Castro’s example.
It’s been a long time since our government spoke about the Chinese government in such terms. It’s also about time.
LOL. The day they stop jailing foreign activists for links to NRA and indicting internet trolls for politically wrong memes someone might take this serious.
If they believe it is okay for a diplomat to do this stuff they all need to go back to school.
I am in no way sympathetic to the Chinese regime and believe it has to be brought down but it is not getting done by federal officials this way in the open. It is their circus and their monkeys and diplomacy has established standards.
Imagine the outrage if the Chinese diplomats went to BLM riots to encourage Antifa mobs.
I know some would bring the moral equivalence thing here but it is not how the whole world see things.
Sounds like our Communist Party.
Jeff Sessions had to (he says) recuse himself from overseeing the phony Mueller Russia investigation because he spoke with the Russian Ambassador at a cocktail party.
Imagine the uproar if a Trump campaign official was photographed meeting with a Russian intelligence officer posing as a diplomate.
Don’t think American politics can not be as vicious as China’s, especially given the divineness of America’s own communist Party.
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