Hong-Kong Protests

KIENCHIN

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My father won a school limited ticket rafffel ticket sponsored by Cathay Pacific. There were only 200 tickets at $500 a ticket for a return Business Class ticket any destination of our choosing. We are travelling to NewYork from Auckland with a stopover in Hong Kong for a week in late November before travelling on to London, then New York. We were hoping that the trouble would have died off by then.
Good luck, i personally think HK is doomed either way
 
My father won a school limited ticket rafffel ticket sponsored by Cathay Pacific. There were only 200 tickets at $500 a ticket for a return Business Class ticket any destination of our choosing. We are travelling to NewYork from Auckland with a stopover in Hong Kong for a week in late November before travelling on to London, then New York. We were hoping that the trouble would have died off by then.

Good luck. Don't let the idoit ruin your family trip.
 

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【修例風波】網傳示威者各區休息站名單 8成地點屬教會

【橙訊】反修例示威持續未息,暴力更愈演愈烈,蔓延全港多區。早前有傳媒揭發有教會、教堂淪為示威者的「避警私竇」,幫助他們逃脫。

近日香港討論區有網民上載了一張名單,列出港九新界各區共逾四十處供示威者「休息」的地方,其中三十多處便屬教會或教堂,其餘為咖啡室、書室等商舖。

而早前被傳媒指為「避警私竇」的灣仔循道衛理聯合教會香港堂,亦名列上述名單。

不過,循道衛理聯合教會香港堂等事後針對傳媒報道發聲明澄清,教堂會為有需要人士提供休息、使用洗手間、接受身心靈牧養及人道服務。近年來,公眾活動頻密,且多在銅鑼灣至金鐘地區發生。區內教堂亦本着上述服務之原則,開放給不同人士使用。

The demonstrations continued uninterrupted, and the violence became more and more intense, spreading across the territory. Earlier, the media revealed that there were churches which had become a haven for the "demonstrators" and help them escape.

Recently, some netizens in the Hong Kong discussion forum uploaded a list of more than 40 places in the New Territories of Hong Kong and Kowloon as a "resting place" for the demonstrators. More than 30 of them were churches or churches, and the rest were coffee shops and books. Shops and other shops.

The Wan Chai Methodist Church of the United Church, which was previously referred to by the media as "a safe house to hide from the police by the rioters", is also listed in the above list.

However, the Methodist Church, Hong Kong Church, etc. issued a statement clarifying the media reports. The church will provide rest, use of the restroom, body and mind husbandry and humanitarian services for those in need. In recent years, public activities have been frequent and have occurred in the Causeway Bay to Admiralty area. The churches in the district are also open to different people in accordance with the principles of the above services.
 
Is it just me or does it seem like the two ships are passing rather dangerously close from each other?

I imagine there must be an explanation for it, but golly gosh..
Rick:

yesterday at p. 159 of this thread you as a Mod criticized me for chit-chat and for not commenting on numerous articles I've reposted, and it's true I occasionally chitchated, and it's also true several years ago I refrained from commenting on Chinese press-releases (as I explained
Aug 25, 2019
continuation of 22 minutes ago
:
just to finish here, and since I'm on a train, I did a search and (I don't want to drag anyone else into this)
Sep 7, 2016
I said I would've thought officially there had been no "China's rust belt" (after a Xinhua article mentioning "China's rust belt")
and was asked why, which I answered
Sep 8, 2016
and later I got hit, and decided not to comment on Xinhua any more

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), so I of course don't question your moderation or anything, but point to your attention posts at p. 160 of this thread calling for
  • intentionally shooting people by Police #1597 and
  • wrecking a ship with detainees on board #1599
I'd appreciate your opinion on those posts from your position of a Mod (maybe they present a satire? but even if they presented a satire, would they be appropriate?)
 
in other news,
Half of Hong Kong MTR stations still closed as city braces for more protests over government’s anti-mask law
  • Admiralty, Prince Edward and Mong Kok among major interchanges remaining shut as some rail services resume following Saturday’s closure of entire network
  • Demonstrations due in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon on Sunday, on second day of civil unrest since mask ban introduced
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contains this graphic:
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looks really incovenient
 
kind of related to the saying
He Who Pays The Piper Calls The Tune
is this
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: You cannot make money from China while insulting the country

Have you ever heard of Yao Ming? This Chinese basketball player became an international star for the NBA’s Houston Rockets, helping the professional basketball league gain popularity and influence in China and around the globe. Thanks to Yao Ming, the Rockets reaped the benefits of the huge Chinese market.

In the later stages of Yao’s career with the NBA, Daryl Morey became the general manager of the Rockets. However, the general manager of the team has changed the way that many people see the professional basketball team and the NBA, after he posted the following message on social media: “Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong.”

Morey posted the message on the morning of Oct. 5, following a very dark night of chaos and violence in the special administrative region of Hong Kong, as radical protesters conducted extreme acts to paralyze the city and terrify its residents.

Since June, radical protesters in Hong Kong have escalated their violence against police officers and even ordinary people. They have repeatedly defaced and burned the national flag and have even called on foreign governments to interfere in Hong Kong’s affairs, challenging China’s national sovereignty and security and violating the bottom line of the “One Country, Two Systems” framework.

Week after week, radical protesters have thrown petrol bombs and bricks at police in Hong Kong, destroyed businesses, set fires, shut down the mass transportation system, and have even attacked Mandarin-speaking Chinese.

Morey ignored all this and stood with the mob.

His move shows that the Rockets is two-faced: make money from China but also attack China.

The message he posted on social media is exactly the slogan that certain demonstrators in Hong Kong have shouted in their effort to challenge the “One Country, Two Systems” model and try to split Hong Kong from the mainland.

It is not hard to see what Morey meant to say with this move, and his wrong and shameful post on social media quickly attracted attention. In response to the huge backlash, Morey removed it. Despite this, Morey’s comment has made Chinese fans angry. Under his other posts, thousands of netizens have responded to his support for the radical protesters in Hong Kong who are trying to tear the country apart with extreme violence, and many netizens have reminded him that Hong Kong is a part of China.

In response, Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta said that Morey “does NOT speak for the Houston Rockets,” and he stressed that they “are NOT a political organization.” Despite his effort to distance the team from Morey, we are still face with the situation that Morey has clearly offended Rockets fans in China.

On Weibo, well-known basketball commentator Yang Yi expressed his opinion on this. He wrote that some institutions, like the one Morey serves in, have long gained from China, pointing out that Rockets have received countless sponsors from China in the past 17 years and ESPN has made at least $10 million per year in China in the past four years. China should make them a price, Yang said, concluding, “You cannot make money from China while insulting the country.”

Businesspeople all over the world should know that Hong Kong is a part of China, and anyone who touches the bottom line of the Chinese people should not get away with it.

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manqiangrexue

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Rick:

yesterday at p. 159 of this thread you as a Mod criticized me for chit-chat and for not commenting on numerous articles I've reposted, and it's true I occasionally chitchated, and it's also true several years ago I refrained from commenting on Chinese press-releases (as I explained
Aug 25, 2019), so I of course don't question your moderation or anything, but point to your attention posts at p. 160 of this thread calling for
  • intentionally shooting people by Police #1597 and
  • wrecking a ship with detainees on board #1599
I'd appreciate your opinion on those posts from your position of a Mod (maybe they present a satire? but even if they presented a satire, would they be appropriate?)
Of course 1597 is appropriate. It calls for the police to perform their duties and enforce law upon all criminals no matter how violent they become. It is natural in every country for the police to shoot people who intentionally attack others with deadly force and intent. This is the real world, not some Disney fantasy where no matter what someone does, calling for forceful intervention up to lethal force is taboo. Violent criminals are shot; that's how it is and that's how it should be the whole world over.

You did not read 1599 properly. Where did you see the word, "wreck?" I not not say anything about wrecking a ship; I said the rioters who love the UK should be loaded on a ship and sent there to let them see if the UK loves them back. Maybe it will work out; maybe it is mutual and they can become British as they so desired. But clearly, those who perpetrate violent crime against China in the name of the UK are better off in the country that they love instead of the country they hate... if the Brits will have them, that is.
 

Quickie

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If the boss said in the same statement he has no issues with the GM, does it mean that he agrees with the GM opinion on the HK mayhem? Probably so.

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Chinese basketball body halts cooperation with Houston Rockets over offending tweet

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese Basketball Association said on Sunday it was suspending “exchanges and cooperation” with the Houston Rockets basketball team, after their general manager took to Twitter to support protests in Hong Kong.

The Rockets are widely followed in China, partly because they drafted the Chinese basketball player Yao Ming in 2002, who became a star for them and helped build the NBA’s following there.

In a statement posted on China’s Twitter-like Weibo, the association, chaired by Yao, said it opposed Daryl Morey’s comment, which it called inappropriate.

“Houston Rockets General Manager Morey publicly made an inappropriate comment related to Hong Kong,” it said. “The Chinese Basketball Association strongly opposes this and will suspend exchanges and cooperation.”

It did not detail the nature of the cooperation or how long the suspension would last.

Reuters’ telephone calls to the association to seek comment went unanswered.

Morey’s original Twitter message over the weekend included an image captioned, “Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong.” The post has since been removed and team owner Tilman Fertitta went on Twitter to distance the team from the statement.

“Daryl Morey does not speak for the Houston Rockets,” he said on Saturday. “Our presence in Tokyo is all about the promotion of the NBA internationally and we are not a political organization.”

The Rockets could not be reached for comment outside of business hours.

Basketball fans in China were not appeased, with many airing criticism of the Rockets on Weibo.

“I watched the Rockets for 21 years, but I’m still a Chinese person first and foremost,” said one user in response to the basketball association’s announcement.

Another said, “We Chinese basketball fans call on either Morey to apologize or the Rockets to fire Morey. If this doesn’t happen, then we call on fans to boycott watching Rockets games.”
 
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