OPINION
Hong Kong’s protesters deserve Trump’s support
By F.H. Buckley
August 15, 2019 | 8:40pm | Updated
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What’s happening in Hong Kong right now reminds us that Americans have never been ideologues. In foreign policy, we are happy to live with a messiness in which idealism mingles with self-interest. We need a touch of idealism in response to the Beijing regime’s crackdown against dissent in Hong Kong.
President Trump is about the last person you would call idealistic in his foreign policies. He has tweeted about his great friend Kim Jong Un, and his administration ignored a good deal of Saudi nastiness because the Saudis are on our side in dealing with Iran. He has no time for florid Wilsonian rhetoric.
But even Trump understands that foreign policy realism can’t push our country’s values entirely off the table.
The president wants a trade reset with China, and he has signaled that he has tied the negotiations to what is happening in Hong Kong. “Of course, China wants to make a deal,” he said. “Let them work humanely with Hong Kong first!” He also urged Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping to meet with the protesters to seek an “enlightened” solution to the “Hong Kong problem.”
That’s a good start.
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