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“Donald Trump set the convicted drug criminal former Honduran president free just weeks ago and now wants everyone to believe his morally motivated to abduct another South American leader on drug charges.”
That is a reference to the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had barely begun a decades-long prison sentence after being convicted, by an American court, of helping to smuggle hundreds of tons of cocaine into the US when Donald Trump pardoned him and set him free.
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“We are watching America show others how major powers can use force for what looks like pretty muddy and selfish reasons in their near neighbourhood,” said Mr Shoebridge.
“Beijing now has a very recent precedent for whatever it wishes to do against the 24 million people living in freedom in Taiwan.
“I expect many governments will react with ambiguity and bland statements to not antagonise an alarmingly unilateral and capricious America.
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