What Trump gets wrong about Xi and Hong Kong

Published August 15, 2019 4:13pm ET



President Trump is confused over Chinese President Xi Jinping’s attitude toward Hong Kong’s “umbrella” protest movement.

Trump appears to believe that Xi is open to real compromise with the protesters and that kindly American nudging towards that objective will be constructive. Nothing is further from the truth.

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