[Zhang Fei]

The current demonstrations may end up being the latest in a long line of massacres of anti-government Chinese activists. It is different from the Tiananmen Square demonstrations because those demonstrators loved the Party and did not expect to be massacred. The Hong Kong demonstrators despise the party and fully expect to be killed. And it is also different from the massacres from a century ago because their forebears were much better-armed, although similarly at a severe disadvantage:

First Guangzhou Uprising

Second Guangzhou Uprising

[robowombat]

Too bad we can't provide them some manpads and other toys and a few Eurasian looking SOF types on an ‘extended leave of absence’.

[ifinnegan]

The ChiComs will try to play it more like 228 in Taiwan in 1947 than Tiananmen Square 89.

KMT killed and disappeared and jailed thousands over the course of a few months.

Took people away in the middle of the night.

[Telepathic Intruder]

China has the help of American liberals in crushing freedom. The same idiots who wear masks and call freedom lovers Nazis support fascism and slavery in the rest of the world.

[NoLibZone]

God bless em.

They have the spirit our Founders had.

The spirit we no longer have.

[wardaddy]

Are you in HK

I KNOW folks there who see it different

Support for the protestors is thin and narrow

I spoke to an HK American about it last nite

She said the protestors are violent and not well received by the locals

I used to have business there long ago

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[wardaddy]

Arab Spring With soy sauce

[Thud]

It appears that the Chinese government’s mistreatment of Uighurs has convinced the people of Hong Kong that the same fate awaits them when the government eventually takes over entirely, so they may as well go down fighting.

[Thud]

China's "Water Army" (paid internet propagandists) has shown up in this Free Republic thread.

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/11/how-to-conduct-business-with-chinese-companies-that-see-a-dark-future.html

[piasa]

Interesting...this particular reporter in Hong Kong, the gal with the Turkish name Zeynep Tufekci, reportedly had a lot to do with pushing the mask mandates in the US in April 2020...