China turns the screws on Hong Kong

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Hawkeye10

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The End of Hong Kong
China has moved to take away the city’s autonomy, one of several aggressive actions by Beijing across the region.

The moves were capped this week when China’s National People’s Congress announced that it would force wide-ranging national-security laws on Hong Kong in response to last year’s prodemocracy protests. In doing so, Beijing circumvented the city’s autonomous legislative process and began dismantling the “one country, two systems” framework under which Hong Kong is governed, setting up what will likely be a fundamental shift in the territory’s freedoms, its laws, and how it is recognized internationally.

The announcement late Thursday evening stunned prodemocracy lawmakers, diplomats, and many of the city’s 7.4 million residents, who awoke Friday questioning Hong Kong’s future. The stock market plunged, interest in VPNs shot up, and Hong Kongers wondered whether 2047, the year in which China was set to take back full control of the city, had arrived more than two decades early. “I’m heartbroken,” Tanya Chan, the convener of the prodemocracy camp in the city’s legislature, told me. “Last night was a complete setback.”

Though much of the world has come to a standstill as a result of the pandemic, China’s regional ambitions and grudge settling clearly have not. Beijing has offered provocations—with a dash of propaganda and medical diplomacy—pushing forward its agenda despite the unfolding public-health crisis. “This is business as usual—in the South China Sea, towards Taiwan—it’s all the same,” Greg Poling, a senior fellow with the Southeast Asia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., told me. “Business as usual during a pandemic that people partially blame on you—it is more scandalous.”
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https://www.theatlantic.com/interna...kong-pandemic-autonomy-law-aggression/611983/


This was completely predictable and was in fact predicted by me...I was saying all the way back to handover day that China would not keep their word. Also, at this point all who dont understand how China operates, and that they are coming for us, is willfully ignorant......the Chinese are completely transparent on how power works inside of the Empire and upon the lower people.
 
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Can't really recall any posters here that identify as Progressives ever saying a single world against the Chinese, I may be wrong but somehow I think not. Seems that political correctness and identity politics are far greater influences on them.
 
StoneByStone said:
I know Trumpcucks only care about this because of Trump, but it's still good that they're giving this attention.
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I care because I have been trying to sound the alarm on China since the late 80's, finding almost none who could be bothered to care.

But thanks for trying with your Modern Moron Mind Reading.
 
Grajonca said:
You really do spout some serious bullshit!
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Now people tend to spout pure nonsense, stuff that anyone who is sane and not significantly mentally damaged knows to be a lie.

I dont get what the upside of proving oneself a Dick is supposed to be.

Maybe they really are mentally damaged...
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I care because I have been trying to sound the alarm on China since the late 80's, finding almost none who could be bothered to care.

But thanks for trying with your Modern Moron Mind Reading.
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Nah. You care about this because Trump is using hatred of China to get the blame off of himself. He's made it cool to hate China for Trumpcucks.
 
Grajonca said:
Excellent article and sadly very true.
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You know what the messaging from The New Chinese Empire is going to be now, right?

"Just look at the West....they are liars.....they are weak.....they are stupid.....they thus can not be trusted and need to shut the fuck up now and do as the Empire commands".
 
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