Jeff Brown mentions that
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I read the link, I think he is a little too rah-rah, I wouldn't be surprised if his entire wardrobe is Che Guevara T-Shirts. One of his blog comments by "Jonathan Smith" I feel was a more fair assessment. It's not fair to put so much value into the growth and change in China and relating back to HK, as HK was already quite developed by the late 80's. HK in the 90's was far better than Seoul, KL, and Taipei too. His commenter nailed it though by saying HK is looking backwards instead of ahead. All those old Toyota Crown cabs polluting like hell since it's 80's tech. Across the border, SZ runs 99% electric taxis. According to wiki, HK only imported 19 of the newest Toyota Hybrid taxi (which is already old tech, Toyota is considered behind in EV tech, one of the few major manufacturers with no dedicated EVs in production). Not to mention all the diesel double deckers and minibus.
Japanese PM visiting Yasukuni Shrine was just a symbolic gesture as well. Doesn't mean China didn't, and shouldn't, take retaliatory action. It just means the retaliation needs to be proportional, as the goal is to deter future such actions and not to escalate the conflict.
As such, I think suspending the trade negotiations is the best response.
I'm not sure that is the best response. I think it is best for everyone in China to try to have trade as normalized as possible. It also might show that US actually doesn't respect HK, because it shows it puts business ahead of HK. (Can be seen as PRC is 'desperate' too, but you have to hope you have better spin doctors)
I think blocking warships is an obvious move.
They all love to solicit prostitutes?
Why did he go to Mainland for this anyway? Couldn't afford HK hookers?
Lol, if you were to listen to a popular opinion, HK girls aren't pretty, haha. (Don't shoot the messenger if you're offended, I've just heard this a lot in the last 10 years)
Agreed, not to mention within the next 5-10+ they will be forced to see reality whether they like it or not. They will have nothing to say when their city is literally a hell hole with nothing but images of their old city landscape. They will only see the truth when they are put into that situation. As for now, China has to do nothing but wait.
The problem is that truth is not important
Common Lies (still being propagated as truth):
The Girl who committed suicide was killed by police.
The kid who fell off the parking structure was pushed by police (or the other "alternative fact", the police actions forced him into drastic action)
Police killed people at Prince Edward station.
PAP was already in HK dressed as HKPF and speaking Mandarin, beating protesters
I can go on and on...
Even worse, modern media has created a falsehood feedback loop. One falsehood is created, then it gets passed on to 10 different sources. If it gets dismissed as falsehood, it still exists on at least 3 sites, once a bigger outlet cites one of these false sources it will become "fact" forever. Then on top of that, that will be source material in Wikipedia who doesn't remove it because there is at least one "reliable" source. (Just read the WZ-10 article and the debate over Kamov's involvement and you will know!)
