Hong Kong’s lawmakers point fingers over who’s to blame for threat of sanctions and curbing of trading rights by the United States

A blame game ensued among Hong Kong’s politicians on Thursday, a day after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared the city as no longer autonomous from China, a determination which could be a precursor to sanctions or crimping its preferential trading terms.Each side insisted they were not responsible for the threat of such actions, which could deal a devastating blow to the city’s economy and status as an international business centre, pointing fingers instead at their opponents for…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3086574/hong-kongs-lawmakers-point-fingers-over-whos-blame-threat