Hawley on China; Farage on general election

11-1-19  WASHINGTON—

  Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said on Nov. 12 that the situation in Hong Kong displays Beijing’s real intention, which is to push the United States out of the Indo-Pacific region, and that current U.S. foreign policy is inadequate to address the “dangers at hand.”

Speaking at the Center for a New American Security, a bipartisan think tank, Hawley called for a change in foreign policy approach in light of a new era of competition with China.

  “China’s bid for domination is the greatest security threat to this country in this century, and our foreign policy around the globe must be oriented to this challenge and focused principally on this threat,” he said.

  The youngest member of the U.S. Senate said the Chinese Communist Party’s response to the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests shows clearly “what Beijing is capable of, what Beijing’s intentions are.…I do think that Hong Kong is the Berlin of this generation, in the sense that it captures and makes vivid the struggle that this generation is going to have, which is with an increasingly martial and expansionist China,” Hawley said.  “And that’s what we’re seeing play out in Hong Kong.” https://www.theepochtimes.com/senator-hawley-beijings-treatment-of-hong-kong-displays-its-ambitions-in-asia_3144719.html

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Mr. Farage repeated his claim that he was offered a seat in the House of Lords, telling supporters: "The very fact this Government think they can buy me off with a peerage, so I'll simply go quietly, tell me two things.

  "Firstly, by the way, I'm not for sale - I keep telling them, I've got principles, I'm not for sale - but it tells me that actually this whole system where people get appointed to the House of Lords is a form of political corruption - it's the kind of thing I'd expect to see in South America.  We want to change politics for good and we can only do that by getting Brexit Party MPs into the House of Commons.  We want to hold Boris Johnson to his promise and then let's transform the political landscape."   https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1203675/Brexit-latest-news-Boris-Johnson-transition-period-2020-EU-deal-negotiations

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11-4-19  The point of a general election is when you hit the reset button, is when you get to drop what was there before...I can't tell you how disappointed I am that Boris Johnson has picked up Mrs. May's old treaty.   -Farage at 2:50 of video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2wxSv_z5PQ

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11-2-19  Mr. Farage said on Twitter:  'If Boris Johnson will abandon a clean break Brexit, and he wins an election on this, we will never be free of EU rules.'          Details of the manifesto emerged as Mr Johnson revealed he would reject Nigel Farage's offer of a Leave Alliance at the general election, telling voters the only way to guarantee Brexit will happen is to support the Conservative Party at the ballot box.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7642113/Nigel-Farage-blasts-Boris-Johnsons-election-pledge-no-deal-table.html