“They must proceed on time,” Pompeo said in a Thursday radio interview. “They must be held. The people of Hong Kong deserve to have their voice represented by the elected officials that they choose in those elections. There – Hong Kong law that they proceed. If they destroy that, if they take that down, it will be another marker that will simply prove that the Chinese Communist Party has now made Hong Kong just another communist-run city.”
Unfortunately, thanks to Trump’s reckless tweet Thursday floating the idea of the U.S. delaying its election over concerns about mail-in voting, the U.S. has much less moral authority to criticize China for the delay.
In fact, given how Beijing approaches public relations and diplomacy, it’s difficult to avoid wondering whether they purposely made the announcement now to take advantage of the cover provided by Trump’s tweet.
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