https://coconuts.co/hongkong/news/lam-s ... -protests/Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam stood by the city’s controversial extradition bill this morning, even after hundreds of thousands of people marched in the streets to protest it, saying that the government would continue to forge ahead with the law despite the enormous levels of opposition.
Many had hoped that Sunday’s enormous protests would be enough to compel Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing government to shelve the bill — which would allow extraditions to mainland China for the first time since the handover — as was the case the last time Hongkongers marched in such numbers against a controversial national security bill in 2003.
Lam, however, swiftly put an end to those hopes in a press conference, saying the bill would come up for a second reading at the Legislative Council on Wednesday, but that the government would continue to explain the bill’s built-in “safeguards” to win over opponents.
“I fully understand that during the march, many of the participants have expressed worries about the government’s attempts to amend the legislation,” she said. “We realize that our communication and explanation work has to continue…even after the enactment of the bill, because this is a very important piece of legislation.”
The government introduced a handful of concessions late last month in an effort to stem the tide of opposition from a wide swath of society, including legal groups, business associations, clergy, students, diplomats, and pro-democracy politicians and activists.
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30 years after tiananmen square, mass protests in Hong Kong over the extradition bill amount to.... nothing.
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Things are escalating, so I’m not sure that it “amounts to nothing”.
“Police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas in Hong Kong at demonstrators amid anger at a new bill to allow extradition to mainland China. Protesters blocked key roads around government buildings and threw bricks and projectiles at police.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-48591001
“Police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas in Hong Kong at demonstrators amid anger at a new bill to allow extradition to mainland China. Protesters blocked key roads around government buildings and threw bricks and projectiles at police.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-48591001
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I doubt the HK authorities have much say in this law, prob being told to implement it by Big Bro
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Great pictures from the South China Morning Post. If only we had a board member who could give us some perspective from China's mainland. https://www.scmp.com/video/hong-kong/30 ... photo-desk
Freedom is not a state. It is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau.. Freedom is a continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.-John Lewis
Perspective from Chinese mainland : "Several CIA-backed rioters disturbed the peace and societal harmony while violently attacking police in the ancient Chinese city of Hong Kong, despite the will of the local population who were marching in the streets to show their loyal support of the Chinese Communist Party under their strong and wise leader Xi Jinping."Sonic1 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2019 2:03 amGreat pictures from the South China Morning Post. If only we had a board member who could give us some perspective from China's mainland. https://www.scmp.com/video/hong-kong/30 ... photo-desk
Credit to the Hong Kong folks, Standing United, Strong. The power of the people. Massive unity.
You can thank me later.........Sonic1 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2019 2:03 amGreat pictures from the South China Morning Post. If only we had a board member who could give us some perspective from China's mainland. https://www.scmp.com/video/hong-kong/30 ... photo-desk
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aerial views of protest
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Very nice Chuwie. Mainland has folded on this issue after days of protest. Why they protested from Vice news.
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Back at it again on the anniversary of 22 years since.....
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Report on mainland reaction to social media
Freedom is not a state. It is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau.. Freedom is a continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.-John Lewis
Reddit exposed a video made by a mainland Chinese police official discussing the "violent Hong Kong rioters" breaking into government buildings and destroying property. Some people did break into government offices at 9:00 pm and smash some things up. The clock on the wall behind the Chinese official showed 9:30 pm. That's all that was in the video, the one official and the clock.
What he forgot to do was take off his wristwatch, which clearly showed the actual time that video was made to be 4 hours earlier....i.e. long before any HK offices were broken into and proving the false flag operation by planted mainland Chinese goons to give the CCP/PLA the excuse for what they are about to do. And what they are about to do is tantamount to Tiananmen Square 2.0. The difference being Hong Kong has a hundred thousand resident foreigners and 7.5 million locals have a mobile phone to record the government crackdown as it transpires. Not as easy as machine gunning down a few thousand Chinese citizens in 1989.
How long before the HK internet gets shut down and the PLA tanks roll? Watch the desperation to get money out of Hong Kong intensify making bitcoin and gold surge to new heights, well beyond what we've seen the past 2 weeks. This is going to get ugly.
What he forgot to do was take off his wristwatch, which clearly showed the actual time that video was made to be 4 hours earlier....i.e. long before any HK offices were broken into and proving the false flag operation by planted mainland Chinese goons to give the CCP/PLA the excuse for what they are about to do. And what they are about to do is tantamount to Tiananmen Square 2.0. The difference being Hong Kong has a hundred thousand resident foreigners and 7.5 million locals have a mobile phone to record the government crackdown as it transpires. Not as easy as machine gunning down a few thousand Chinese citizens in 1989.
How long before the HK internet gets shut down and the PLA tanks roll? Watch the desperation to get money out of Hong Kong intensify making bitcoin and gold surge to new heights, well beyond what we've seen the past 2 weeks. This is going to get ugly.
The Chinese government should send in the military if that is what it takes to restore law and order. HK is part of China and the separatists and extremists are making the situation intolerable. President Lincoln faced a somewhat similar situation with the southern states and he was a great man because he had the resolve to do what needed to be done in order to maintain the union.
Western countries should mind their own business. China is no longer the sick man of Asia and they aren't going to allow themselves to be pushed around and dictated to like they were in the past.
Western countries should mind their own business. China is no longer the sick man of Asia and they aren't going to allow themselves to be pushed around and dictated to like they were in the past.
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