[microcolonel]

> A true leader would have gotten on the phone with all of his counterparts in all of our allied countries and given notice to China that the new laws to curtail freedoms are a red line. And come up together with a list of collective sanctions (including banking) to threaten China with

This is literally, exactly what the White House did.

It isn't enough, we need to do a lot more.

[greenbush]

Can you please point me to an article where Trump called the leaders of all our allies to create a coalition? And also which collective sanctions were created?

[microcolonel]

It's complicated to get buy-in on actual sanctions within the anglosphere and Europe, but it's not as though the U.S. is not pushing for them. [0]

[0]: https://www.ft.com/content/fcaf0a57-ac0f-4695-af0f-82a44e6ae...

The UK and Australia are willing to flap their mouths a bit [1] over it at least, and the UK is much closer to actual sanctions (Australia has, for the time being, not terminated their special trade arrangements with Hong Kong).

[1]: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/05/us-uk-canada-and-au...

Ultimately only the U.S. has taken any leadership on this matter, even if I think it will be inadequate. There is more to be done; but with the U.S. Presidential election looming, one thing that would steel the resolve and buff the resources of PRC assets in American politics would be a major announcement.

Nothing is as simple as the free world bullying the nominally-free world to condemn the only major state in the world conducting a holocaust; because apparently those "allies" don't give a toss.