{"id":76121,"date":"2020-05-28T12:09:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T04:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=76121"},"modified":"2020-05-28T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T04:11:37","slug":"hong-kong-no-longer-autonomous-from-china-says-us-sec-of-state-pompeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=76121","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong &#8216;no longer autonomous from China&#8217;, says US Sec of State Pompeo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.brudirect.com\/images\/news\/20200528_asia.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON,&nbsp;May 28 (NNN-AGENCIES)&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;<\/strong>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told Congress that Hong Kong no longer merits special treatment under US law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The declaration could have major implications for Hong Kong&#8217;s trade hub status and is likely to anger Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;No reasonable person can assert today that Hong Kong maintains a high degree of autonomy from China, given facts on the ground,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It follows Beijing&#8217;s plan to impose a controversial new security law on the territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The security law was &#8220;only the latest in a series of actions that fundamentally undermine Hong Kong&#8217;s autonomy and freedoms,&#8221; Pompeo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is now clear that China is modelling Hong Kong after itself,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until now the US has given Hong Kong &#8211; a global financial and trading hub &#8211; special status under US law. The provision dates from when the territory was a British colony and gives it favourable trading terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But since last year this status has been conditional on the US secretary of state regularly certifying that Hong Kong maintains sufficient autonomy from mainland China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the secretary of state fails to certify this, the US Congress can revoke Hong Kong&#8217;s special trade status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This would mean treating Hong Kong the same as mainland China for trade and other purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It could jeopardise billions of dollars worth of trade between Hong Kong and the US and could dissuade people from investing there in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said the US would announce a &#8220;very powerful&#8221; response to the proposed legislation before the end of the week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK, Australia and Canada have also expressed their &#8220;deep concern&#8221;. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON,&nbsp;May 28 (NNN-AGENCIES)&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told Congress that Hong Kong no longer merits special treatment under US law. The declaration could have major implications for Hong Kong&#8217;s trade hub status and is likely to anger Beijing. &#8220;No reasonable person can assert today that Hong Kong maintains a high degree of autonomy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":76123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}