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SkinnyPupp 06-20-2019 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Traum (Post 8951453)
When Deng negotiated the 1-country-2-system with Thatcher, Deng's intent and expectations were that in 50 yrs' time, China would have caught up to Hong Kong (and the international community)'s level of prosperity and civility, and then the 2 societies can readily merge into one without major issues. Of course, little did he know that his lack of political reform in China means an assimilation like that is impossible.

Any leasehold land in Canada, or any place that operates under the rule of law, would never have any issues with the leases expiring. The lease expires, and you either re-negotiate to come to a deal of some sort beforehand, or you just pack up and go when the expiration comes. The problem with China is, it is a place that operates on the rule by law princple. That law and justice is not an end goal in itself, but merely a means to achieve whatever desires the current ruler / ruling adminstration desires. So it doesn't matter what kind of contract or binding agreement they have passed or signed, because China will easily ignore their obligations if it is convenient for them to do so. And this is exactly what happened with their WTO obligations.

I know. I'm just saying why they "have" to "play nice" for 50 years. By doing what they're doing, they're literally going against their own constitution that they wrote. They are breaking the law at a very fundamental level with this meddling.

ae101 06-20-2019 05:23 PM

im only here to say i participated in this thread, im from hong kong and taiwan living in china

lets hope i dont get arrested lol

ToneCapone 06-20-2019 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp (Post 8951396)
Another bill was "delayed" today. In case you were wondering what this was, the Beijing government wants to make it illegal to make any other noises or show any disrespect when the China national anthem is being played.[/url]

Anybody remember reading 1984 by George Orwell in hs? Because China is eerily moving towards everything the book described :moderated:

I learned a lot of new stuff in this thread... its bad on all sides...
With this issue aside, it really makes me think of the direction that is China headed in. Its pretty bad already, and it will get so much worse.

SkinnyPupp 06-20-2019 07:08 PM

China is legitimately terrifying, and as much as Trump is a stupid idiot, I think he is right in that the rest of the world has to pressure them.

SkinnyPupp 06-20-2019 08:37 PM

Week 3


bcedhk 06-20-2019 09:35 PM


protest continues based on this. They are blocking the police HQ now. Probably a good day for thieves and robbers.

I think CCP will sacrifice Secretary for Security (John Lee) and/or Secretary for Justice (Teresa Cheng) to calm the storm. I predict JOhn Lee will be the first on the chopping blocks because he has been doing a shit job with responding to protestors and pretty much-adding fuel to the fire every time he speaks.

JDął 06-20-2019 09:59 PM

As someone who lived in HK for the last few years of British rule it's sad to see what it has slowly degraded in to. I really enjoyed my time there. I've been back a bunch since no longer being a resident but even my dad called it quits in 09. He and many of his colleagues felt it was time to go. None of my family or the network of expats we knew are surprised by China's actions though. HK will 'die' as the hub it once was with this continued meddling; I wonder if it's already passed the tipping point and another mass exodus will be happening. You'd think China would have gotten the hint that blatantly illegal business practices and strong-arming doesn't work in the 21st century with Huawei forecasting a 30B loss of its profits due to being alienated by the rest of the world.

SkinnyPupp 06-21-2019 12:36 AM

Stunning composite imagery of last week's march PogChamp

This is probably the most 'readable' image I've seen, showing just how big the scale is

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...test-size.html

SkinnyPupp 06-21-2019 04:53 AM

Amnesty International's report on how the police handled protests 6/12. TL;DR they title it "HOW NOT TO POLICE A PROTEST"

Includes a lot of footage I haven't seen before. So if you thought the cops weren't actually that bad.. think again, it was REALLY FUCKING BAD.

bcedhk 06-21-2019 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp (Post 8951525)
Amnesty International's report on how the police handled protests 6/12. TL;DR they title it "HOW NOT TO POLICE A PROTEST"

Includes a lot of footage I haven't seen before. So if you thought the cops weren't actually that bad.. think again, it was REALLY FUCKING BAD.


They need better training on keeping their cool and composure. They act and look just like any MK gang. And look at how their superior is laughing in the background.

SkinnyPupp 06-21-2019 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by bcedhk (Post 8951536)
https://twitter.com/HK6127/status/1142072650770145282

They need better training on keeping their cool and composure. They act and look just like any MK gang. And look at how their superior is laughing in the background.

Yeah if that guy loses his temper that much while out of uniform, out of the action, imagine how insane he goes when he's out there crackin' skulls. Nasty shit

ae101 06-22-2019 01:03 AM

im all for things like flags on goverment buildings and mandarin on MTR station is normal and i personally think its a must since the hand over

but since its 50 years unchange, then they should keep it intill the time period expires

u must know that china is like a birds cage, your freedom is base on how big the cage is period and depending on how u perform they will adjust things to see what fits right

im not a fan of the cpp but im not going to say i hate them, i live here and thats i dont talk/play politics

Badhobz 06-22-2019 07:17 AM

She's hot. I'd let her march on my tianmem

https://i.postimg.cc/Dw5VQh4w/Captur...2-08-16-16.png

320icar 06-23-2019 05:19 PM


StylinRed 06-30-2019 01:04 PM

pro police rally in HK over 150k ppl

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48817530

whitev70r 07-01-2019 10:17 AM

What do you all think now? Freedom fighters or hooligans?


https://www.usnews.com/dims4/USNEWS/...ests_64870.jpg

Looks like Vancouver 2011
https://cdn.japantimes.2xx.jp/wp-con...02-870x580.jpg

Manic! 07-01-2019 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by whitev70r (Post 8952352)


If thats what it takes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udham_Singh

Udham Singh (26 December 1899 – 31 July 1940), was a revolutionary belonging to the Ghadar Party best known for his assassination in London of Michael O' Dwyer, the former lieutenant governor of the Punjab in India, on 13 March 1940. The assassination was in revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919.[1] Singh was subsequently tried and convicted of murder and hanged in July 1940. While in custody, he used the name Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, which represents the three major religions of Punjab and his anti-colonial sentiment.[2]



twitchyzero 07-01-2019 12:06 PM

looks like the sunflower movement in taiwan few years ago
they didn't deface anything though

https://cdn.techinasia.com/wp-conten...87947c74_b.jpg

asian_XL 07-01-2019 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Manic! (Post 8952355)
If thats what it takes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udham_Singh

Udham Singh (26 December 1899 – 31 July 1940), was a revolutionary belonging to the Ghadar Party best known for his assassination in London of Michael O' Dwyer, the former lieutenant governor of the Punjab in India, on 13 March 1940. The assassination was in revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919.[1] Singh was subsequently tried and convicted of murder and hanged in July 1940. While in custody, he used the name Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, which represents the three major religions of Punjab and his anti-colonial sentiment.[2]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuYgICoMer8

https://images.glaciermedia.ca/polop...nucks-riot.jpg

Watching the news yesterday, it reminds me the Vancouver riot. IMO I don't see a point to damage or take over the legislative council when no body was there and they decided to leave after 12am. To me the HK police is quite inexperience, some not sure where to stand, some dropped their shield etc. Police evacuated after 9pm, probably eating popcorn in front of the surveillance cameras, then plan to knock on the doors in the morning.

Manic! 07-01-2019 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by asian_XL (Post 8952388)
https://images.glaciermedia.ca/polop...nucks-riot.jpg

Watching the news yesterday, it reminds me the Vancouver riot. IMO I don't see a point to damage or take over the legislative council when no body was there and they decided to leave after 12am. To me the HK police is quite inexperience, some not sure where to stand, some dropped their shield etc. Police evacuated after 9pm, probably eating popcorn in front of the surveillance cameras, then plan to knock on the doors in the morning.

no one was there because they where too busy sipping champagne. I here the news channels had a split screen. One side showing government officials clinking glasses the other side showing protesters demonstrating and breaking windows. I think the protesters did an effective job interrupting the celebrations.

https://www.scmp.com/video/hong-kong...er-week-july-1

whitev70r 07-01-2019 04:38 PM

This was all staged to make protesters look bad. Police not incompetent, they were instructed by President Xi to let them in to create havoc. Some protesters were China sympathizers. CRP controlling the narrative.

StylinRed 07-02-2019 12:20 AM

they need the Chinese military to roll in to institute a curfew and maintain order through martial law uh oh that's where its headed if they keep it up

Tim Budong 07-02-2019 12:59 AM

I mean... there is no way the police would let people storm a gov't building without resistance. This happened yesterday.

It's not a great look for the HK people who are all peacefully protesting and it sort of gives "grandfather xi" an excuse to take further action

bcedhk 07-02-2019 08:18 AM

Most, including myself believe this was a setup by the government to give them leverage to hold on the protestors' demands. The fact they could barge into Legco so easily contradicts the police use of force during previous "riots" to suppress protestors from getting into legco.

On another hand, you have comically things like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/co...at_9pm_police/

where the police provide a status update on the protestors barging into legco at 9pm, when his rollie clearly shows 5pm.

As a result:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/co...n_their_video/

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#2 It's quite odd how the whole crew (CE, SofS, SofJ, Police Chief and their support staff) all got together ready to go at 4am to address the press. That said, the CE basically brushed off the Cantonese/local reporters' questions but would provide very detailed responses to the foreign press. People in PR have pointed out this is a tactic was used to help China leverage to the international audience that this whole protest has become violent and skew them from the peaceful protest that happened in the morning.

Traum 07-02-2019 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by whitev70r (Post 8952393)
This was all staged to make protesters look bad. Police not incompetent, they were instructed by President Xi to let them in to create havoc. Some protesters were China sympathizers. CRP controlling the narrative.

I remain thoroughly unconvinced that the HKSAR gov's scheme to make the protesters look bad has succeeded though -- at least it hasn't for those who are willing to seek the truth (or more semblance of truth).

From reading and watch the various protestor declarations, the "occupation" videos, the "rescue" operation videos, I honestly can't imagine how any sensible person would not sympathsize with the young protestors. Their plain and simple sincerity, and their undying love for their home (Hong Kong) cannot be more obvious. They may be unrefined with their means, but their actions and accusations are the direct results of tyranny and ridculous policies and lies from the HKSAR gov.

Of course, the gov supporters (and many Mainland Chinese) will not be swayed because it comes from a difference in fundamental values. You are not going to see changes in these people until their own core interests have been harmed. In some cases, they may even think it is OK for their own core interests to be sacrified "in the name of the greater good". FailFish


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