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Rage Against The Regime – Hong Kong Demonstrators Keep Resisting Beijing Authoritarian Dictates…

The protests and demonstrations began in mid-June, centered around the now-suspended extradition bill that would have allowed people in Hong Kong to be sent to mainland China for trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party. Today, those protests are outlawed by Chinese authorities, organizers have been disappeared, and yet the protests continue.

Eric, a 22-year-old student, told Reuters news agency: “Telling us not to protest is like telling us not to breathe. I feel it’s my duty to fight for democracy. Maybe we win, maybe we lose, but we fight.”
Hong Kong police, seemingly comprised of Chinese militia, are using semi-permanent blue dye water cannons to mark the protesting groups. This helps them later identify their targets for the arrest (ie. disappearing).

(Reuters) Protest organizers have urged the public to overwhelm road and rail links to the airport on Sunday and Monday, potentially disrupting flights. A similar so-called “stress test” of the airport last weekend failed.


Late on Saturday and into the early hours, police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets and protesters threw petrol bombs, escalating clashes that have plunged the Asian financial center into its worst political crisis in decades.

Rage Against The Regime – Hong Kong Demonstrators Keep Resisting Beijing Authoritarian Dictates…
 
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livingston said:
Eric, a 22-year-old student, told Reuters news agency: “Telling us not to protest is like telling us not to breathe. I feel it’s my duty to fight for democracy. Maybe we win, maybe we lose, but we fight.”
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Dammm where are these 20 year olds in the US? They all want to melt down and hide? The youth here will fight for the wrong reasons but not for Democracy????? Seems to me freedom is far better than dictatorship.
 
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Jezman said:
Dammm where are these 20 year olds in the US? They all want to melt down and hide? The youth here will fight for the wrong reasons but not for Democracy????? Seems to me freedom is far better than dictatorship.
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30 Years Later, Hong Kong Still Harbors Spirit of Tiananmen
30 Years Later, Hong Kong Still Harbors the Spirit of Tiananmen
The center of one of the densest metropolises in the world fell momentarily quiet Tuesday night, as well over a hundred thousand people gathered in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park bowed their heads and held flickering candles to observe a minute of silence commemorating the bloodshed around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.

For the last 30 years, Hong Kongers have held an annual march and candlelight vigil to remind the world of the night the Communist Party unleashed its tanks in response to protesters calling for political change. No one knows how many died — the official count is a secret — but it’s widely believed that hundreds if not thousands were slaughtered as soldiers moved to crush the seven-week democracy movement.

The Tiananmen Square massacre forever changed China, and, arguably, the world. But three decades later, the anniversary remains taboo on the mainland, an event off-limits to nearly one-fifth of the planet. Today, semi-autonomous Hong Kong is the only place on Chine
se soil that can openly stage large-scale memorials.
30 Years Later, Hong Kong Still Harbors Spirit of Tiananmen

They understand what could happen ...... Tiananmen Square volume 2... And they still protest... Their leaders already have been arrested ...You are seeing real courage folks ...
 
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Chinese culture is old enough and has planty of wisdom. Doesn't need our patronage. When will we learn to mind our own business and respect cultures different from us.
 
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Chinese culture goes back thousands of years, ours only a few hundred and we know how they should live.
 
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You don't need to know thousands of years of history to recognize tyranny and to sympathize with those that risk their lives to fight against it.
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I guess sitting here and watching coverage by our honest and fair media, makes you more aware of the situation in China than over a billion Chinese, who are not participating in these protests.
 
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Pro-Beijing camp wants HK water supply cut off
Global Times says Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy must be maintained to protect China’s interests

ByJeff Pao
A pro-Beijing lawmaker and an academic have called for the central government in Beijing to implement national law and to cut the water supply to Hong Kong in order to stop the “violent protests” in the city.

Junius Ho Kwan-yiu, a pro-Beijing lawmaker, said on Tuesday that he hoped the central government could declare Hong Kong is in a state of emergency and issue an order applying the relevant national laws to the region.
https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/08/article/pro-beijing-camp-wants-hk-water-supply-cut-off/
 
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