Speaking from the White House Rose Garden, President Trump outlined some strong measures against China.
The U.S. President indicated they’re in response to Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus crisis and its new security law for Hong Kong.
CGTN’s White House Correspondent Nathan King has this report.
To discuss:
- Kishore Mahbubani is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore.
- Sourabh Gupta is a Senior Asia-Pacific international relations policy specialist at the Institute for China-American studies.
- Einar Tangen is a current affairs commentator.
- Neysun Mahboubi is a Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China with the University of Pennsylvania.
For more:
US-China tensions continue to rise as Beijing threatens countermeasures https://t.co/9kZ6o9YpUo
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) May 29, 2020
Donald Trump says China’s actions in Hong Kong are a “tragedy” and he will start to remove US privileges for city https://t.co/8G7vqrUack
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) May 29, 2020