President Trump signs Hong Kong sanctions bill, announces executive order in escalation with China.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he signed into law a bipartisan bill that sanctions Chinese officials whoto free speech and assembly in Hong Kong, the latest escalation in an increasingly hostile relationship between Washington and Beijing.
"This law gives my administration powerful new tools to hold responsible the individuals and the entities involved in extinguishing Hong Kong’s freedom," Trump said at a press conference in the Rose Garden Tuesday evening. "We’ve all watched what happened, not a good situation.
"Hong Kong will now be treated the same as mainland China — no special privileges, no special economic treatment, and no export of sensitive technologies," Trump said.in June that restricts free speech in Hong Kong, undermining the"one country, two systems" policy agreed between Britain and China in 1997 during the handover of the territory, which allowed Hong Kong to adopt a political system separate to the mainland.
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