UK shouldn’t have caved on giving it back to China. Should’ve become 100% independent country.
So they negotiated a 99 year lease with China.not quite
is hong kong next tiananmen
2016 but first I'm reading this
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/26/hong-kong-democracy-campaigners-demand-return-to-british-rule-as/
Somewhere in the world where people miss the Brits
- 7 million people in the richest city in china don't get to take their quaternary sector economy and try to run away from the other 1 billionThis is pretty funny in sequence. Tone of the first point carries zero weight without violence. Likewise, HK poses no credible threat, so they couldn't have done much besides beg for the status quo to be maintained. Though all they can hope for now is leniency, I suppose.
- violence is bad
- extradition is fine, the bill only allows extradition for 37 specific crimes and none of them are political.Nominally, anyway. No idea how trustworthy the mainland's legal system is. File as cynicism.
Currently a murderer can be extradited from Hong Kong to the United States... but not to the mainland? That's just dumb.Or humanitarian, you barbarian. 😤
"Do it right" lolThere are only two implicit strategies being exercised here. One is to cry loudly in public until things get so bad that they martyr themselves to state violence. This works when the government holds a fundamental level of compassion, which might be true for the HK SAR, but we all know mainland will enforce the red line. I don't know how many people are thinking that far ahead and consciously volunteering to be sacrificial lambs but it can't be many.
state violence is just law enforcement, it's not included when we say violence :dogelame :c
I think this is a major reason why the pro-beijing camp is advocating for a slow path to universal suffrage; they want the mainlandization and cultural homogenization to occur first (the erasure of cantonese, people to forget what it was like to be British, etc.). That way when pandora's box is open they won't be some rogue province that immediately votes for HONGXIT.That way they won't be squeezed too hard, you mean. PRC leadership doesn't strike me as patient, given the whole country was built up to what it is in a couple generations.
Luckily the Chief Executive has to approve all extradition requests. And if you don't trust that person either, know that an army of lawyers would raise hell if there were ever blatant disregard for the law. Ultimately it comes down to Hong Kong's legal system, not mainland's.How credible is this, given what's going on? If they could be pacified by such assurances they would be, no? Then again, this turned into something much bigger than that.
I just used murder as an example and the United States as an example. HK has a completely separate legal system so by necessity it has to make its own extradition agreements. It already has 20 of them. (https://www.doj.gov.hk/eng/laws/table4ti.html)
ARTICLE 4Noice. :like
Capital Punishment
(1)
When the offence for which surrender is sought is punishable by death under the laws of the requesting Party and is not punishable by death under the laws of the requested Party, the requested Party may refuse surrender unless the requesting Party provides assurances that the death penalty will not be imposed or, if imposed, will not be carried out.
(2)
In instances in which a requesting Party has provided an assurance that the death penalty will not be carried out, the death penalty, if imposed by the courts of the requesting Party, shall not be carried out.
Not sure but let me know what the Radio Free International Fund for Freedom and Democracy In Asia thinks before I make up my mind TIA
I got my answer :rejoice Hong Kong Liberty forever! Save us President Trump, Bring Back the Queen!
https://twitter.com/chenweihua/status/1159364746329632768
would you have a problem if china met with the proud boys or antifa?Not sure but let me know what the Radio Free International Fund for Freedom and Democracy In Asia thinks before I make up my mind TIA
I got my answer :rejoice Hong Kong Liberty forever! Save us President Trump, Bring Back the Queen!
https://twitter.com/chenweihua/status/1159364746329632768
I wouldn't have any problem with them meeting those groups...? Is that just me?
Hong Kong is a beautiful place btw, I hope you all get to visit it before it goes to complete shit and while you dont have to deal with Chainha for a visa.
https://twitter.com/ChinaDaily/status/1161529827213623296
:chinacry
why would you buy food at the $1000 burger western fast food joins, get a dumpling man :lolHong Kong is a beautiful place btw, I hope you all get to visit it before it goes to complete shit and while you dont have to deal with Chainha for a visa.
Only place ive been where McDonalds has Egg McMuffins all day
Hong Kong is a beautiful place btw, I hope you all get to visit it before it goes to complete shit and while you dont have to deal with Chainha for a visa.
Only place ive been where McDonalds has Egg McMuffins all day
Twitter and Facebook have suspended numerous accounts that they say are tied to a Chinese disinformation campaign against pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
Twitter said Monday it suspended 936 accounts likely related to the activity. The company said the disinformation campaign was designed to “sow political discord in Hong Kong, including undermining the legitimacy and political protest movement on the ground.”
“Based on our intensive investigations, we have reliable evidence to support that this is a coordinated state-backed operation,” the company said in a blog post. “Specifically, we have identified large clusters of accounts behaving in a coordinated manner to amplify messages related to the Hong Kong protests.”
Following Twitter’s announcement, Facebook said in a blog post that it was acting on a tip from Twitter.
Facebook removed seven pages, three groups and five accounts in what it calls coordinated inauthentic behavior targeting Hong Kong. About 15,500 accounts followed one or more of the now-deactivated pages, while roughly 2,200 accounts joined at least one of the groups, Facebook said.
“We’re taking down these Pages, Groups and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they posted,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, said in the post. “As with all of these takedowns, the people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts to misrepresent themselves, and that was the basis for our action.”
why would you buy food at the $1000 burger western fast food joins, get a dumpling man :lolHong Kong is a beautiful place btw, I hope you all get to visit it before it goes to complete shit and while you dont have to deal with Chainha for a visa.
Only place ive been where McDonalds has Egg McMuffins all day
Hong Kong is a beautiful place btw, I hope you all get to visit it before it goes to complete shit and while you dont have to deal with Chainha for a visa.
Only place ive been where McDonalds has Egg McMuffins all day
All of the usa is like that now FYI
Jules : You know what they call a Quarterpounder with chees in France?i'm mostly laughing at you because western fast food is stupid expensive in HK and you ordered from the international menu not the local one :brain
Momo: lol why did you go to a fast food place and not eat a croissant? :lol
Google axed 210 YouTube channels after it found they had been tied to misinformation about Hong Kong protesters, the company announced Thursday.
“Earlier this week, as part of our ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations, we disabled 210 channels on YouTube when we discovered channels in this network behaved in a coordinated manner while uploading videos related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong,” Shane Huntley, director of software engineering for Google Security’s Threat Analysis Group said in a blog post.
“We found use of VPNs and other methods to disguise the origin of these accounts and other activity commonly associated with coordinated influence operations.”
Google stopped short of explicitly blaming the Chinese government for the misleading accounts.
Holy SHIT at this propaganda from china globalThis is epic 8)
https://youtu.be/K0L8edPZE88
The music :dead
Holy SHIT at this propaganda from china global
https://youtu.be/K0L8edPZE88
The music :dead
Brave or foolhardy and manipulated? It's going to end badly for them and guess where their leaders will be? Safely in America.
Now this is the thought leadership I need to cosign this movement :salute
https://twitter.com/GlobalHimalaya/status/1165517260749803526
(https://preview.redd.it/0o2411874tj31.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=fcf2a6a77ca00aff5fd929285a00ee5954c2d3ed)
undercover cop caught throwing a molotov at police :lucas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5XCXOBk2_I
His voice reminds me of Alex jones
My guy was out dropping bottles of vodka had one salient point and decided to repeat it 20 000 times :lol
This proves that HK mobs mentality is the same as a drunkard or most probably brain damaged junkie. Thank God Beijing is not as stupid as Hong Kong.
This guy is clearly drunk! If he approach American police officers like that, they’ll bust a cap in his a*s!
https://twitter.com/HGW45599518/status/1168365418156675072 (https://twitter.com/HGW45599518/status/1168365418156675072)
A wild steve appears
They will take over Taiwan through their military power and code this action as Double Dragon Action.
Mr Geng, China's foreign ministry spokesman, said the attack was "directly related to certain British politicians confusing right from wrong on the Hong Kong issue and their support for violent acts, giving a platform to those who are anti-China and want to create chaos in Hong Kong".Hong Kong protests: China condemns 'appalling' attack on official in UK
https://twitter.com/jamespomfret/status/1196186422404775936 (https://twitter.com/jamespomfret/status/1196186422404775936)
This is like a scene from LOTR. The trolls and goblins are about to storm Helms Deep.
God speed Hong Kong!
They also picked inanimate objects in the past.
Who even reads/collects Time anyway, literal boomers?
https://twitter.com/HongKongrealne1/status/1200946567848398849