[Zhang Fei]

[But don’t you find it kind of odd that Congress suddenly gets up off of its sorry ass to produce something right smack in the middle of when POTUS is working with China on a fair trade deal?

They couldn’t have done this throughout the Obama years? I’m sure there were pissed off Hong Kongers then. ]

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These are the biggest and most serious demonstrations ever mounted against Chinese rule. And Xi is putting people in concentration camps, demolishing churches, mosques and temples and kidnapping people from Hong Kong and putting them in gulags. That’s new. The magnitude of these demonstrations pushed Congress into signaling to Xi that if he begins massacring Hongkongers, Uncle Sam will take measures that might go as far as a total Cold War-style embargo. This bill is just a taste, a shot across the bow.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I'm certainly not disregarding the Hong Kong demonstrations.

I'm just saying that this bill conveniently came on the scene right during sensitive trade and other talks with China.

Also, you and I both know that if Trump weren't President, nobody would be batting an eyelash over the Hong Kong demonstrations or China's systematic abuse of political prisoners.

They've been doing this s--t for decades even in 1989 GHWB still gave them MFN status for trade right after Tienanmen Square Massacre.