Let's focus on 1. Chiney flat violated their 1997 treaty and asserted control of HK. Trump levied sanctions that complicated the lives of certain chinese. It was an inconvenience. It did NOTHING to alter that deal. Here's an article that discusses the effectiveness of the sanctions (pretty much ineffective) and then concludes that p
ossibly significant sanction measures on Beijing and Hong Kong would require a joint, collective, and decisive move on the basis of long-term strategy among all major Western countries. He did NOT do that, did not get some international sustained campaign, didn't extend citizenship or try to get all the capital here, wth? Went after a few individuals so they can't use credit cards. That's not hard nosed sanctions. It's classic, typical Trump -- "I want a press release, and let em' know we're hitting those people PERSONALLY really hard!" So the consequence of expanding communism into an historic free market, capitalist allie? Like... 21 people now have to bank in their spouses names or use debit cards instead of credit cards.
What did he do to stop the communist aggression in HK? What brilliant move did he pull to completely sabotage china's aggression there?