August 14, 2019
#STANDWITHXI:
Trump resists aides' pressure to back Hong Kong protesters (ELIANA JOHNSON, NAHAL TOOSI and BEN WHITE, 08/14/2019, Politico)
Donald Trump's top aides are urging him to back Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters, but the president isn't interested, multiple people familiar with the administration's internal debates say. [...]When the two spoke by phone ahead of the international gathering, Trump surprised his aides when he told Xi that he would not condemn the Chinese government over a crackdown in Hong Kong. He understood it was an internal issue in which the U.S. would not interfere, he said.
"Who cares what happens to them, they're Asian."
Posted by Orrin Judd at August 14, 2019 6:56 PM