The US wants to ink a trade deal with China by the end of 2019, but can't overlook Online Cigarettes Store USA violence in Hong Kong, the head of the National Security Agency has said.
"We were hoping to have deal done by the end of the year. I still think that's possible," Robert O'Brien said during a security conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saturday.
"At the same time, we're not going to turn a blind eye to what's happening in Hong Kong or what's Newport Cigarettes Shop happening in the South China Sea, or other areas of the world where we're concerned about China's activity."
O'Brien, Donald Trump's fourth security advisor, said it "would be a good sign" if Sunday's local elections in Hong Kong passed without clashes between pro-democracy protesters and police. Soldiers in the southern Philippines rescued a British man and a Filipino woman from members of an Islamist militant group, the army said on Monday, after their captors fled during a military operation.
The couple, Allan and Wilma Hyrons, were abducted at gunpoint on Oct. 4 from the resort they ran in a neighbouring province and were now being looked after at a military camp.
A photograph issued by the army showed the couple unharmed and eating a meal.
The kidnappers were members of Abu Sayyaf, a group that operates in the Sulu archipelago and has Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes extremist factions loyal to Islamic State, and linked to at least five suicide bombings in the region in the past 16 months.