President Trump has signed into law a bill that supports pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. How's this being viewed in mainland China? NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to David Rennie of The Economist .

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It has been a bad week for Beijing, with new support for pro-democracy protesters and detailed evidence of the repression in the north-western region Beijing was never going to welcome the news that the US had passed a law backing pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. But its anger today at Donald Trump’s signing of a bill it condemns as “full of prejudice and arrogance” perhaps had extra bite....

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Law means Washington can impose sanctions on Chinese and Hong Kong officials deemed responsible for human rights abuses.

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Former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying says U.S. legislation supporting the protest movement in the Chinese territory is targeted at containing China’s growth

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Trump signed the bills supporting Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters, even as he expressed some concerns about complicating the effort to work out a trade deal.

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The Human Rights and Democracy Act has angered Beijing, and could complicate US-China trade talks.

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