Posted on 09/08/2019 5:29:49 AM PDT by KC_Lion
(Video at Source)
Hong Kong (CNN) - Protests calling on US President Donald Trump to intervene in the ongoing Hong Kong political standoff escalated rapidly Sunday, with marchers setting fire to a barricade outside a subway station entrance in the city's business district.
Earlier in the day, tens of thousands of protesters waving US flags marched on Hong Kong's US Consulate to call for help from the Trump administration in ending a three-month confrontation with the government.
The march began in the Chater Garden public park in Central before heading to the consulate as part of the 14th straight weekend of public demonstrations in the Asian financial hub. In a letter which protesters planned to presented to consulate officials, the group calls for the passing of the proposed "Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act 2019" by the US Congress.
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"We share the same US values of liberty and democracy," 30-year-old banker David Wong said. "USA is a country of democracy. Donald Trump is elected by his people. We want this."
The protests began peacefully but rapidly deteriorated into violence and vandalism over the afternoon, after police appeared to arrest a number of people in the busy Central subway station.
Protesters erected a barricade at one of the subway exits before being setting it on fire. Other exits had their glass windows smashed or defaced with graffiti.
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For your interest.
Best not hold their breath.
Yeah. We’re not going into a shooting war with China. We may make a trade deal with them. Perhaps it’ll contain a Hong Kong clause. Perhaps it won’t.
When the British turned over Hong Kong to China, the people in Hong Kong had 50 years to leave or get ready to be governed by Communists. Nothing the US says will make a difference.
Setting fire in a subway station seems unnecessarily dangerous, even for your fellow supporters.
Notice the Trump on a tank graphic. They at least have my sympathy now.
If the protesters wanted changes to the treaty that's one thing, but the no treaty position makes no sense unless the lack of any treaty is protecting some very corrupt people who had been powerful under British rule.
Hong Kong routinely extradites people to many countries. So, I don't get the idea of no treaty as opposed to one that covers crimes recognized as crimes even within Hong Kong.
JMHo
Boy you don’t have any faith in the US or Trump at all.
That’s sad.
I’m SURE folk said NOTHING the US says will make the USSR fall.
Thank God Reagan didn’t feel that way.
If the Chinese can’t sell to us they’re ####ed. Some kind of clause regarding Hong Kong might be thrown in.
Worth a try.
Pessimism sometimes pervades this board a little.
“Setting fire in a subway station seems unnecessarily dangerous, even for your fellow supporters.”
It’s just another weekly occurrence here. Nothing really special.
President Trump is doing the one thing that can bring an end to this tyranny. He seeks to break the back of the criminal CCP and free all of China from its despot.
China took back their bill. The Hong Kong protests should stop. Trump should do nothing, say nothing. Except maybe to praise Lam for taking back the bill. Protesters need to just take the win.
Just my opinion, but I’m betting the violence is coming from pro-Chinese plants in an attempt to delegitimize the protesters.
Commies have a long history with subterfuge.
No thanks.
To get what they want they will have to liberate China. Big job.
5000 years of history show us a people who want to be ruled, but maybe they will change.
Changed or not, has nothing to do with us.
Hong Kong belongs to China. The U.S. has no business meddling in their politics, any more than Mexico has any business telling the U.S. how to manage our affairs.
Carrying the flag of a foreign power, asking that power to “liberate” them, will NOT achieve their goals.
Unless their goals include slaughter and prison.
Really, really dumb.
Love These Photos!
I guarantee those are Beijing's agent provocateurs - but far too many HK expats (who should know better) are buying the Beijing line that they are paid by Trump and the CIA.
No way do we want to get in the middle of this.
That said, all the best to the protesters.
Communist Fake Protesters are doing the violence.
Liars All.
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