Calling on Britain

It is perhaps not remarkable that President Trump has not taken a harder stance against the brutal crackdown on the freedom-loving people of Hong Kong. Trump is trying to sustain an unprecedented level of prosperity in the United States and does not want to further spike the prices of imports to America from our largest source of consumer goods, after already pushing Red China in a tariff battle. President Trump is not going to wage a shooting war for a distant former British territory, so the people of Hong Kong have to seek other nations to support their struggle for liberty. Since Hong Kong was formerly a British Crown Colony until 1997, the silence of the United Kingdom in reaction to the crushing of dissent by the Red Chinese is somewhat mystifying. Boris Johnson could at least speak up to demand restraint of the part of the Communist thugs. No country seems to be willing to bleed for Hong Kong, but at least, some of the Western countries, particularly the UK, could speak up for freedom.