"I feel so badly. I spoke to President Xi about it, and I asked to consider his release," Trump told reporters, without specifying when he asked Xi. CNA
There are things that a national leader can do and ask and will get a reasonable or favourable answer. There are things that a national leader should not ask even if he is Donald Trump. When Clinton asked Lee Kuan Yew to spare the caning of an American spoilt brat that committed vandalism in Singapore, he could end up with a red face if this was turned down. Fortunately the crime was not serious enough and Lee Kuan Yew reduced the caning by two strokes.
The crimes committed by Jimmy Lai were treason, causing serious damages to properties, loss of lives and social unrest. Now Trump is admitting to the world that Trump is by all means a clown that did not know what a serious crime is and what he can ask and what he should not ask. By asking Xi to release a criminal that committed treason, a crime against the country, Trump is showing how ignorant he is and his inability to understand the seriousness of the crime. He is asking Xi to say No to him. And Xi can only oblige, and this will only embarrass Trump in front of the world.
It is Trump that is asking for it. He does not need to say anything. He does not need to interfere in China's domestic affairs. Or he has been told by the CIA that Jimmy Lai is a CIA operative doing the works of the CIA to destabilise Hong Kong and it is his duty to save Lai? And who knows, after Lai's release and moves to the USA, Trump would invite him for tea in the White House and awarded him a medal of honour for working for the Americans. Trump may even nominate this criminal for the Nobel Peace Prize to embarrass Xi and China.
The only thing that Xi can do to Trump's request is to show him the middle finger, to let Trump know that there are times he should just keep quiet and stop being a fool. Well, Trump thinks too highly of himself, that he can mess around with Xi and China. Only Xi has the stature to teach Trump how to behave as a responsible and wise leader, ...when to shut up.
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Trump wants Xi to behave like him, pardoning criminals and cronies without consequences and with Lawmakers closing eyes to what he is doing. If China does that, probably the MSM's sky will fall, demonizing China's dictatorial Government. Call it Skyfall, the political earthquake, LOL.
Why must China play the same game as what the USA and the West wanted it, when its survival is at stake. Trump is not happy and had always been complaining that China is not playing the same game in the economic, military and geopolitical arena.
The USA and the West and its hedge fund owners particularly, want China to allow them freely to tear China and Hong Kong's economy to bits with attacks on their stock market, property market and financial system. They want to show the world that socialism is a fragile system, unable to weigh up to the Western system and easily brought down by outside attacks. Instead, China has withstood all the attacks using religion, drugging, forming gangs to tear China apart, trade wars, technology wars and tariff wars. What else is next?
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