Seventeen years after its return to communist Chinese rule, the battle over democracy in Hong Kong has once again heated up. Unfortunately, the U.S. -- which in 1997 promised to defend Hong Kong's civil liberties and support democracy -- is so far pursuing business as usual with Beijing, announcing the next meeting of a high level U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Beijing scheduled for July 9-10. A State Department spokeswoman's remarks on July 1 suggested that the administration views the massive protests as unremarkable.
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