(August 14, 2019 at 8:57 am)Brian37 Wrote:(August 14, 2019 at 7:59 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Trump has no authority to even attempt to mediate this. Hong Kong and China are the same country. What you're suggesting is equal to Germany attempting to mediate a disagreement between England and Wales.
Boru
No, way to miss the point again.
I am saying that Trump's diplomacy sucks, nothing more.
I am not looking for a utopia, and again, I don't want a war with China.
I am saying that the fucker has screwed things up and made things worse.
But it is nonsense to say that ANY President does not have authority. It isn't about dictating, but leading. JFK wasn't dictating to Russia in the Cuban missile crisis. Reagan wasn't dictating to Gorbachev when he said "Tare down that wall."
They were leading.
China promised to let Hong Kong do it's own thing when Britain handed them back over. Trump fucked everything up with his bullshit trade war. And during his run and while in office has been constantly sucking up to dictators, and that sends a very bad message to these closed oppressive states, that what they do is ok, and it is not ok.
I am not expecting a American style Revolutionary war by Hong Kong. But I also do not want Trump to fuck up the status quo America and Britain set up for decades.
It is the same fucking tone deaf insensitivity and his love of authoritarians that puts South Korea and Japan at risk with the way he sucks up to Un.
Great news, Brian! Trump has just offered to meet with Xi to help settle the Hong Kong issue. I guess this means he's 'leading'.
Boru
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