EU-China Investment Deal: "It Spits in the Face of Human Rights"

The Gatestone Institute ^ | January 8, 2021 | Soeren Kern

[yoe]

"It is a massive strategic blunder at a time when President Biden will be seeking to put together an international partnership of liberal democracies to deal with the bullying loutish behavior and assault on our international rules by Chinese Communists." — Former Hong Kong Governor Lord Patten, Daily Mail, January 7, 2021.

"We should not be seeking to contain China but to constrain the Chinese Communist Party." — Former Hong Kong Governor Lord Patten, Daily Mail, January 7, 2021.

"It is naive to believe that China will respect the agreement it has signed. It is naive to ignore the geopolitical implications of doing a deal with China right now. And it is naive to think that the darkening political climate in Beijing will never affect life in Brussels or Berlin." — Gideon Rachman, Financial Times.

[yoe]

""The EU Commission's haste to partner with Beijing despite its grotesque human rights abuses has removed a fig leaf. Some European officials and commentators liked to claim that the Trump Administration was an impediment to even deeper transatlantic cooperation. Now it is plain to all that this isn't about President Trump. It's about key European officials. Look in the mirror." — Former Deputy U.S. National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger, Twitter, December 30, 2020.

"Beijing's disregard for international law in Hong Kong is serving as a catalyst for a change in alliances — both Britain and Europe have serious choices to make." — Johnny Patterson, Director of Hong Kong Watch.

[rktman]

Guess we now know what hunters new job is gonna be.

[Skywise]

Oh this should be good
“Gets the popcorn”

I’m sure Biden is stringing Hong Kong along to get some grift for hunter.

[dfwgator]

Mitch and his China Bitch will be in on it too.

[elbook]

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China Joe their ‘bought and paid for’ lapdog - nothing to see here folks ...

“25th” this corrupt creepty senile vetriloquist dummy

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[hoe_cake]

Biden is a blunder of epic proportions. Someone should insist he stay in the basement. He is such ripe fodder for mistakes.

[PGR88]

At the same time the US was counting its electoral votes, China arrested 53 opposition politicians and their political organizers under their new “National Security Law.”

Coincidence?

[MarkL]

China OWNS the entire Biden family...

President Trump had started getting America back on our feet after generations of sell-outs of workers and ID. Things were starting to turn around.

Biden will sell-out America yet again, this time not even having to hide it.

Mark

[NormsRevenge]

Hunter’s gonna need more help. Looks like a hiring spree ahead for Biden Inc.

[cgbg]

Gonna be kind of stupid to accuse China of being un-democratic when our “leaders” steal our elections....

We are all China now.

[Amberdawn]

That dic*head Chris Patten is the one who signed over British control to China in the first place! Now he’s complaining?! Yes, there was a treaty to do so, but that loser could have allowed Hong Kong’s citizens to hold a vote on what they wanted. What a stupid tool he was to believe that China would honor any agreement!

[rxh4n1]

Even stupider to believe Plugs will do anything to stop the Chicoms.

[Amberdawn]

Yes. Bidumb will mouth the words but business as usual will go on.

[yoe]

This the same man? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Patten

Thanks...yoe

[Amberdawn]

Yes.

[yoe]

....don't leave Eric Swalwell out of the picture....his little china doll probably got the most incredible tid-bits of information from Swalwell the ranking member of its Central Intelligence Agency Subcommittee.....did Eric Swalwell resign from that committee? Pelosi is trying to impeach President Trump for the second time...isn't she at all concerned with Eric's liability or is Pelosi using the numb-nuts congressman for other purposes?