“Have you actually studied the issue with the HK protests?”
Yes. I have “studied it.”
“Which is why Trump is fairly muted on it”
Not sure how that has anything to do with whether or not the overwhelming majority of HK are against Communist rule.
Still, check Pompeo’s recent statement.
I’m sure the majority of HK citizens would prefer to stay semi autonomous versus completely integrated into China
But that’s not the precise issue pushing the protests
It is about extradition changes whereby criminal gang members can more easily be snatched
Protestors don’t like that notion for obvious reasons and students of course have joined int
There is also a resentment against the police who are seen as too aggressive although considering it’s China were talking about I haven’t seen that yet
There is also a political revolt against Carrie Lam the fairly new Chief Executive
And there is a strong Triads struggle involved
Posters here think it’s Lexington and Concord
They couldn’t be more more wrong
There might be elements of that but it’s a lot more
What started this was a murder suspect was wanted in Taiwan and HK couldn’t let him go since no treaty existed before with Taiwan
Lam then plugged that loophole trying to allow the suspect to be sent to Taiwan where the pregnant girl was murdered which at the same time would then make it ok to send HK criminals to Macao and a mainland China for crimes and end the non extradition which previously existed
This naturally terrifies criminal gangs which like Yakuza in Japan are a fact of life in Hong Kong and the territories
That is how this started and remains the core issue
Extradition
The man who killed the pregnant girlfriend....?
Let go
I was in HK a fair amount last century on business and particularly when Britain signed the give back treaty which I thought foolish
Given it is Oriental culture there have been a number of public suicides and one kid fell from a building and died and two days ago a old man bystander was killed when hit by a rock thrown by protestors at cops
I’m sorry for patriots here but I’m just not feeling it like y’all are the nature of these protests
Not that there is not some element of freedom loving to it
This is bee hive culture it’ll never ape our republic
I fail to see how anyone could think suicide would be a smart move to influence communist Chinese who kill scores of millions when they get the impulse