Easiest way to help would be to levy severe economic consequences for China not adhering to their international agreement to allow Hong Kong to self govern until 2047. Prior to the Trump administration, the US was involved in negotiations for the TPP trade deal, which had tools for getting pretty much every country on this side of the world to gang up on China if they start trying to pull shit. Trump pulled us out of that. So can’t do that.
So next option would be to consider that China is our largest trading partner and we buy more than we sell. So we coul - ok no sorry we can’t really do anything there either because we are already in a trade war which is harming us more than them, so no leverage.
So what next? We do have some individual elected officials declaring support, but without an executive behind the cause there isn’t much to be done. Military action of any sort would be detrimental to the region in general, and would make the US vulnerable to other threats.
Unfortunately, there isn’t much we can do at this point except try to push for policies that would strengthen the US negotiating position relative to China. That type of work takes time and our whole government seems only concerned with the one pressing domestic issue of right now: impeachment.
So it looks like it’s up to the people of Hong Kong for now
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