Mike Bloomberg was presiding over his inaugural Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore in 2018 when, to the surprise of some in the audience, he gushed about one of China’s top government officials.Xi is not dictator? Tell it to the Uighurs. Tell it to the citizens of Hong Kong. Tell it to the Chinese whose every utterance online is monitored.
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Then in September, amid mass pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and human rights activists decrying China’s imprisonment of Muslim minorities, Bloomberg seemed to go out of his way to defend Beijing, saying in a television interview that President Xi Jinping “is not a dictator.” Bloomberg said Xi “has to satisfy his constituents or he’s not going to survive.” Pressed by the interviewer, Bloomberg said Xi “has a constituency to respond to . . . they really are responsive.”
Bloomberg may be rich as fuck, but he apparently can be bought.
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Donald Trump signed legislation supporting Hong Kong. China did not like it, but Trump stands for the rights of people.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/29/opinions/trump-signs-hong-kong-bills-risky-move-bociurkiw/index.html
My recollection is that the HK bill passed overwhelmingly. If Trump had vetoed it, his veto would have been overridden.
Signing a bill that will become law irregardless takes no moral courage.
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