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The Hong Kong Democracy Committee, based in Washington, is one of the sanctions. He said that Biden’s DED status “will provide an important lifeline for Hong Kong people currently in the United States.”
Safe haven “means the difference between living freely while continuing to fight for human rights and democracy in Hong Kong and being forced to return to Hong Kong to spend several years or even life imprisonment,” said Samuel Zhu, the committee’s managing director.
Zhu is an American citizen for whom the Hong Kong authorities have issued an arrest warrant. He stated that DED status may benefit an estimated 1,500-2,000 Hong Kong students in the United States and tens of thousands of other people who may enter the country for travel or other temporary status. visa.
Providing a safe haven for Hong Kong people may further worsen the relationship between Beijing and Washington.
The two sides face a long list of issues, including China’s threats to US-backed Taiwan and its disputed territorial claims in the South China Sea, the US accusations of China’s methodical theft of US intellectual property rights, and total repression of Uyghurs and other minorities. Xinjiang region in western China.
When Wendy Sherman, a senior US diplomat and Deputy Secretary of State, visited Beijing for talks in July, Deputy Foreign Minister Xie Feng stated that Washington must stop treating China as an “imaginary enemy.”
“Hopefully, by demonizing China, the United States can somehow… attribute its own structural problems to China,” Xie said.
