President-elect may want cooperation with Beijing on climate change, but observers say he may keep up the pressure on issues such as Hong Kong and human rights. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, his choice to be US ambassador to the United Nations, has signalled the new administration will take a more multilateral approach. But China-US tensions are expected to continue and play out at the UN, Li Mingjiang, an Assistant Professor at RSIS in Singapore, said. “Washington will very keep up the pressure on the whole gamut of human rights issues, as the Trump administration has at the UN, from Xinjiang to Hong Kong,” said Li.