Hong-Kong Protests

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

Thanks, I will be in HK from 20th to 28th that's election time eh? We just received our mainland visa for 10 days so we could go on to visit Shenzhen should HK become troublesome.
I understand one can catch a train from West Kowloon to Futian Shenzen right? should be pretty straight forward.
However, I am wondering whether we should book accommodation in China beforehand or I can go up and book a room while there.

I think it might be handy if someone can write for me in Chinese
" I want to go to Futian Station to catch the bullet tain to Hong Kong":

Thanks
 

Gatekeeper

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Registered Member
This is a great video. Well in fact, it's two videos. The first one was a street interview of two journalists students. They were asked questions, and when the first student was unable to answer coherently, the second one took over, and did no better!

The second is of a Chinese student from China confronting students from Hong Kong in a unviersity in Germany.

Note how coherent and fluent she is in three langages, in contrast, all the Hong Kong students could do is chant and scream!

Never have I feel so ashame to be a Hong Konger, if these are the standards of our "highly educated class", there's no hope for the future!

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Longer version of the "debate" in Germany.

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kind of ironic story of
Mainland Chinese music student among first to be sentenced for Hong Kong protests
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A 24-year-old mainland Chinese music student living in Hong Kong became on Thursday among the first to be convicted on a charge related to the months-long protests in the city, receiving six weeks in prison for carrying an expandable baton.

The student, Chen Zimou, is also the first mainland Chinese person to be charged with a protest-related offense — a reality that has put him and his family under intense pressure from Chinese authorities and Chinese nationalists online who have attacked him as a traitor.

Although Chen pleaded guilty to carrying the weapon, he has maintained that he was not actively participating in protests when he was arrested. He also said in an interview that he didn’t realize that the baton, which extends to about 30 inches, is
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. Similar batons are legal in mainland China.

Chen, a music major at the University of Hong Kong and a part-time piano teacher, told The Washington Post in an earlier interview that he was on his way home in the neighborhood of Sheung Wan on July 28 when he ran into a
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occupying roads near Beijing’s liaison office in the city.

He approached police officers to let him through their cordon to get home, he said, but was stopped and searched instead. When riot police officers found the baton, they arrested Chen.

“I thought it had to be a mistake, or maybe they were confused and thought I was a protester,” said Chen, who admitted he was wearing black at the time — the color of Hong Kong’s political protesters — but said he was just trying to get home. “I tried to explain.”

Chen said he had bought the baton on the Chinese e-commerce website Taobao and picked it up in Shenzhen, the Chinese city that borders Hong Kong, where he teaches private piano lessons. Spooked by
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at the Yuen Long subway station on July 21, Chen said he believed he needed something for his own “self-defense.” He said he had already been assaulted once in the past year.

More than 3,000 people have been arrested since protests began over an unpopular government proposal that would allow extraditions to mainland China. Although the bill has been withdrawn, demonstrations have tapped into long-held sentiments in Hong Kong that the city’s autonomy is being eroded by Beijing and revived a call for direct elections.

Of those arrested, however, only a few hundred have been charged. Cases from
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are still making their way through Hong Kong’s judicial system, which lawyers say is under great strain over the huge number of detentions and mass arrests as a crackdown on the protest movement intensifies. A very small number have been convicted of offenses, including a 16-year-old also found guilty on Thursday of
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— in this case a laser pointer.

As political tensions deepen, mainland Chinese students, residents and tourists in Hong Kong have often found themselves caught in between — sometimes
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who believe them to be against their cause, and at other times
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for even mild protest sympathies.

Chen describes himself as more “liberal” than his compatriots from the mainland. He has a Facebook account — although the social networking site is banned in mainland China — where he shares political views that encourage dialogue and moderation between both sides. Speaking to The Post two weeks ago, he faulted Hong Kong’s government for responding to protesters’ demands too slowly, but he also denounced violence from protesters.

His social media pages have been flooded with threats and insults from Chinese users, saying he does not deserve his People’s Republic of China passport, should die in jail and should never return to the mainland. Chen deleted his account on the Chinese microblogging platform Weibo after it was inundated with death threats.

“I am sorry for their inability to deal with their own emotions and recognize the facts,” he said of the commenters.

Yet, Chen admitted, “I recognize I may not be able to go back to the mainland. I’m not really sure how officials see me now.”
 

Gatekeeper

Brigadier
Registered Member
Thanks, I will be in HK from 20th to 28th that's election time eh? We just received our mainland visa for 10 days so we could go on to visit Shenzhen should HK become troublesome.
I understand one can catch a train from West Kowloon to Futian Shenzen right? should be pretty straight forward.
However, I am wondering whether we should book accommodation in China beforehand or I can go up and book a room while there.

I think it might be handy if someone can write for me in Chinese
" I want to go to Futian Station to catch the bullet tain to Hong Kong":

Thanks


Good luck and have a good time!

Don't let what you see here stop you from enjoying yourself!

I would like to say, the situation is not as bad as the MSM likes to paint it.

Most of my cohorts in our Chinese community have returned from Hong Kong for the Chung Yung festival last week. They have been away for most part of a month. And they are say the same story.

That is, during the week, there's no problem, except we have to be on the look out justvin case.

All the problems happens in the weekends. And even these are restricted to a few places. Often you could be a few blocks away and wouldn't know a riots is happening a few blocks away if it wasn't for the sirens.

These "weekend warriors" are cowards, and their tactic is hit and melt away.

So stay a low profile, and try not to get in a conversation just in case.

Be lucky and have fun.
 

Xizor

Captain
Registered Member
Why is ironic? It's only Ironic if you think a guy from China shouldn't be at the demonstration, be arrested and punished.

It's your sterotypical view that makes it IRONIC!
That guy joining the protest( if he intended to be a pro-rioter) would mean nothing. I am pretty sure that a small percentage of Mainlanders may have a very nuanced view about the protests. And an even smaller may even side with the HK rioters ( even if it sounds crazy- humans are really complicated). But hey, China is some 1.4 Billion or something like that, right? Inconsequential,therefore.
In fact, I'd be concerned if there was no one in the mainland who would feel a little bit pro-rioter.
There are some people who like to eat the crust of the pizza than the middle.
There are some people who believe that their pet cat is a reincarnation of their departed relative.
Some people might worship Snails.:rolleyes:
 

vincent

Grumpy Old Man
Staff member
Moderator - World Affairs
I think it might be handy if someone can write for me in Chinese
" I want to go to Futian Station to catch the bullet tain to Hong Kong":

Thanks

better to ask security guards or policemen. Average people may think you are a scammer
请你告诉我怎样去福田站。我们要坐火车去香港
 
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kind of ironic story of
Mainland Chinese music student among first to be sentenced for Hong Kong protests
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Why is ironic? It's only Ironic if you think a guy from China shouldn't be at the demonstration, be arrested and punished.

It's your sterotypical view that makes it IRONIC!
buddy it's ironic 120 yuan bought him jail time (according to his version of events):
University of Hong Kong student jailed for six weeks for carrying retractable baton for self-defence
  • Chen Zimou said in court he feared for his safety due to prevailing anti-mainland sentiment and violent protests in Hong Kong
  • He bought the baton online after he suffered serious injuries in an assault in Zhuhai last year
follow the link
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if interested, actually you Gate. may want to read it, it says he wasn't part of a riot (according to his testimony and according to the magistrate)
 
This is a great video. Well in fact, it's two videos. The first one was a street interview of two journalists students. They were asked questions, and when the first student was unable to answer coherently, the second one took over, and did no better!

The second is of a Chinese student from China confronting students from Hong Kong in a unviersity in Germany.

Note how coherent and fluent she is in three langages, in contrast, all the Hong Kong students could do is chant and scream!

Never have I feel so ashame to be a Hong Konger, if these are the standards of our "highly educated class", there's no hope for the future!

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Longer version of the "debate" in Germany.

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The same video has been blocked by youtube for being against hate speech. Shows you the bias Youtube policy that ir does not allow for counter-argument.



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