Even with these laws in place people will not stop protesting In Hong Kong, when you have that many people against an issue the Government has to back down or risk Power loss, these are not small numbers of people. Given how the CCP is Soo scared of losing power it will take it's time on this issue Imo, in 20 years for example people are not going to forget this stuff, the biggest future issue Hong Kong will face is when the CCP will try take away the Free Press and Internet to communicate with the rest of the world, if it can get away with that, it can start to control the narrative and then start feeding the populace Government supported Cool-Aid like what they have done on the Mainland.
Yeah but look at it now, your halfway through and the majority is the youth, so long as there is freedom to communicate with the outside world the youth will be at the front of this.
No worries. I didn’t join anything other than the march with a million people in it, and I left before the march escalated in midnight. School’s ended around a month ago, so I rarely have the need to go out. The fear of having a stop-and-search conducted on me by the police due to stepping anywhere remotely close to the current protests very much exists, though.
Yeah. Just to give you some perspective of how many people went on the streets, it took me 7 and a half hours to walk a distance that normally takes around an hour or so, and the organizer has already started the march early.
It remains to be seen... at the moment it would appear that the Chinese authorities are going out of their way to avoid conflict, perhaps in the hope that public sentiment will begin to turn against the protesters - i.e. give the protesters enough rope to hang themselves with, and then it will be business as usual once the protests have died down. A few pro-democracy protesters have denounced the current protests, and there was even some suggestion that pro-government agitators are deliberately stirring things up - laying a trap for protesters to walk right into.
Technically it is false - the bill has only been suspended, but it is now increasingly the case that the extradition bill is becoming less and less relevant anyway - it was merely the straw (or, perhaps more accurately, the haystack) that broke the camel's back.
If overnight reports from BBC radio are to be believed, the city is wracked by defiance, protest and shutdown of every kind from one end to the other. The police are now associated with gangs in the mind of the public, and are under siege. A general strike has shut down virtually every business, tunnel and vital artery. I fully expect the Chinese Army to invade the city at any moment. Lam, the Dragon Queen, may rule over ashes.
China is rounding up and sterilizing Muslim women. Their attitude to human rights cannot be more plain for all to see. The communist authoritarians leading the nation have a crystal clear purpose and plan - their own survival, accomplished by nipping nonconformity and any hint of domestic unrest in the bud. To them, Hong Kong is like a case of virulent cancer that cannot be lived with. In short, this is a defining moment in history.
Pretty typical CCP strategy to be honest. Consider for example the Huawei case. China bans Facebook, YouTube, Google, Instagram, and many other US social media platforms for reasons, and hardly anyone bats an eye, and yet when the US considers banning Huawei, they throw a big hissy fit over it. Don't expect logic, reason, consistency, or honesty to be at the forefront of anything they say. The CCP is best at being hypocrites and liars. Essentially, my family (from Hong Kong) and most overseas Hong Kongers know not to trust a word they say at all, period.
Yeah, I think what they’re doing right now is just hope that protestor numbers will dwindle after school resumes in September, and before that they’re going to just sit with their arms crossed (not sure if that’s the right expression), continue with the condemnations and let the police do what they want. But there’s also a concern after the protests die down (which I also have), which is the fear that the police will start to make mass arrests and the government will try to do something even more outrageous after then, but this time nobody will be standing up against them, because the students, which is the main source of manpower for the protests, will be too occupied with their studies!
This has evidently not prevented the Chinese government from imprisoning Muslims, taking away their infant children for reeducation, and sterilizing them from reproduction.
