If powers hostile to China are committed to trade de-coupling anyways then it's better that China gets a cleaner Hong Kong after all this and Hong Kong gets a boot in the butt to reinvent itself and to integrate with the rest of China, sometimes creative destruction is needed, the status quo isn't always all it's cracked up to be.
Hong-Kong Protests
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If powers hostile to China are committed to trade de-coupling anyways then it's better that China gets a cleaner Hong Kong after all this and Hong Kong gets a boot in the butt to reinvent itself and to integrate with the rest of China, sometimes creative destruction is needed, the status quo isn't always all it's cracked up to be.
Again, the Hong Kong judicial system is stacked with Western trained judges to operate in a British Common Law environment, great for handling commerce with the West, not so great for handling politically motivated crimes especially those with Western sponsors.
It speaks to the discipline of the frontline Hong Kong police officer, they deserve the most credit for the eventual win.
It's all an act with the rioters for pity points when their propaganda spins any video/imagery/audio. I would translate what the police officer said as "stop pretending" in response to the arrested rioter yelling "save my life", a Cantonese term for when someone is in mortal danger.
Good for the students and teachers who ignored the boycott call. It shows that the protesters and rioters are far from being the majority of Hong Kong people.
I wouldn't blame democracy. The worst things colonialism left India are the same things they left Hong Kong: locals ignorant of their own heritage and history, hatred of their own independent development based on the above, prejudice against other locals based on the above, colonial country/culture/people worship (in this case British/Western), and ultimately what colonialists want - locals traitorous against their own country to the benefit of the colonial country/culture/people.
It's a legislative technicality that has no meaning either way as something substantially the same can be reintroduced even if the original proposal is withdrawn. The complaint itself is a technicality so that the anti-government crowd can hype up mistrust of the government to rile people up.
Quickie
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No wonder it sounds so very familiar like it's copied and pasted.
bluewater2012
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Great catch. I didn’t even notice earlier until you said it I went back and rewatch the video and yep, toward the end of that video his head did shake like twice suddenly.
Coincidently, last night I was also watching a video on youtube describing a person experience pretending to be protestor to get and know how these protestors cope with each another and that person mentioned using drugs as mental and pain killer to get them hooked. Another interesting note is that those violent mob majorities are surname Yuan/Yuen or Nguyen - the biggest surname in Vietnam. These kids are possibly Vietnamese descendants during the Vietnam War refugees crisis or ethnic Chinese Vietnamese, since so many are surnames Yuan/Yuen/Nguen, the former seemed more likely, hence they don’t identify themselves as Chinese and seek HK Independence.
Here is the link to that video:
There is also afull transcript on that whole video at the bottom before the comment section if you don’t want to watch the video. I couldn’t post the transcript here because I’m currently on mobile.