Still remember US Consulate official in Hong Kong photographed meeting with the Hong Kong protest leaders last year during the riot ? Imagine what will the US politicians and American people think if Chinese Consulate or Embassy official meets with the Black Lives Matter movement leaders now.
I guess most Americans would think it was a feeble attempt to bolster propaganda back home in China by making it look like the CCP cared about human rights. Like, no one in their right minds would think the CCP cares about the human rights of foreigners when it doesn't care about the human rights of Chinese people. But no one would actually care. Some people on social media would laugh, I guess.
It would be like a climate change denier going to an electric car factory and tweeting "we need more of these".
Institution of national security law in Hong Kong will stop this hostile act by the US government, just like the US national security act already in place will discourage Chinese officials from doing so.
What hostile act? What's hostile about embassy staff having a short, informal chat with students? If there was anything sinister about it, it would have been done inside the embassy or otherwise behind closed doors.
It seems like you think diplomats should be locked in their embassies and only come out for formal talks with their host nations.
They pigeon-holed me by attacking all Chinese. I'm not from Hong Kong nor the Mainland but they attack me just for being Chinese.
Yes, you shouldn't be attacked because you're Han or your nationality.
But, Mace, don't you think that perhaps you're being overly indignant? You've been on this forum long enough that your political opinions are well-known.
Stop me if I'm wrong but you:
1. Are 99.9% pro-CCP - I've certainly never seen you criticise the CCP on a major policy issue, except I think to say they were too soft and should be less diplomatic;
2. Are anti-multi-party, free and fair elections in mainland China or any territory considered under Chinese control/jurisdiction;
3. Are anti-free media and believe the media should serve the interests of the CCP/China;
4. Believe that open criticism of the CCP and any calls for the CCP to step aside for another political party would be treason, certainly if said by a Chinese citizen living in the PRC;
5. Believe the judiciary should serve the CCP and are against rule of law (i.e. where everyone, including the State, obeys the law, even if a court decision is against the government); and
6. Are against the HongKongese protesters and do not accept they have, or at any time have had, any genuine grievances.
Your posiiton makes me think of a guy complaining he was beat up by some Black Lives Matter protesters because he wore a stetson and cowboy boots, and had a southern accent, but when asked if that meant he wasn't racist was proud to say he was a paid-up member of the Klu-Klux Klan. And before you say it, no I'm not saying you're the same as a member of the KKK. However, you seem angry about the fact your detractors rightly guessed what your attitudes are.