China Takes Over Hong Kong: EU Shrugs
by Giulio Meotti • June 13, 2020 at 5:00 am
"Germany is leading the whole Europe, they're so ambitious, they want to be leader but morally they are so collapsed." — Ai Weiwei, artist, La Repubblica, June 1, 2020
"China is a predator and Europe is its prey". — François Heisbourg, French scholar, Le Figaro, May 29, 2020.
There is no mediation with Chinese imperialism.
"Why die for Hong Kong?", the Europeans shortsightedly seem to say today.
During the last year of protests, Hong Kong's demonstrators have waved the American flag. China well knows the meaning of that small outpost on its doorstep, with its freedom of speech and rule of law. Have you seen the European flag being waved in Hong Kong? No, and with good reason.
In the aftermath of China's approval of a new national security law for Hong Kong, which de facto ends the autonomy of the former British colony guaranteed by an international treaty, two Anglo-Saxon democracies immediately protested very loudly.
