Steps taken to ensure safe travel to Hong Kong

11:04, August 13, 2019

• 4 Photos

  PLA garrison in Hong Kong holds blood donation activity

  A soldier of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Garrison in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region donates blood in Hong Kong, August 9, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] HONG KONG - The Chinese People's Liberation Army Garrison in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Friday held

• 

  Who is messing with Hong Kong?

  A rioter waves a US national flag in Tsim Sha Tsui district in Hong Kong on August 11. (Photo: AFP)Some foreign forces have had a hand in what is happening in Hong Kong. The list includes the US Democratic politician Nancy Pelosi, Senate MajorityLeader Mitch McConnell and Republican senator Marco Rubio as well as staff from the Consulate General of the US in Hong Kong and think tanks from the US.They either neglect what is happening in Hong Kong, make groundless accusations about the Chinese government or send the wrong signals to radical protesters. They also invited people involved in what is happening in Hong Kong to visit the US and funded the so-called democratic and political movement.Analysts said that long before Hong Kong returned to China, the US made it a point to contain China in a soft way by promoting the Wests ideology. And now the US is openly interfering in Chinas domestic affairs.In 1998, US president Bill Clinton paid a visit to Hong Kong and praised the city for its trade and globalization, and noted that the US thinks Hong Kong is not only important to China, but also to Asia, the US and the whole world.But now, some Americans are using Hong Kong as a card to contain China.In the book Hong Kong and the Cold War: Anglo-American Relations 1949-1957, the author Chi-kwan Mark wrote that after 1949, the British Empire in Hong Kong was more vulnerable. "Concerned about possible Chinese retaliation, the British insisted and the Americans accepted that Hong Kongs role should be as discreet and non-confrontational in nature as possible.""Top decision-makers in Washington evaluated Hong Kongs significance not in its own right, but in the context of the Anglo-American relationship: Hong Kong was seen primarily as a bargaining chip to obtain British support for US policy elsewhere in Asia."During the Cold War, the Truman Administration ramped up efforts in ideological propaganda and infil...