Posted on 06/09/2019 8:08:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Hong Kong Police projected the number of protesters at closer to 240,000.
Critics say the bill will leave anyone on Hong Kong soil vulnerable to being grabbed by the Chinese authorities for political reasons or inadvertent business offenses and undermine the city's semi-autonomous legal system.
The bill has caused political gridlock, outcry among the city's usually pro-conservative business community, and even physical scuffles in the city's legislature, as well as criticism of the Hong Kong government by the United States and European Union.
The government says the bill is designed to plug loopholes in current law, by allowing Hong Kong to decide on a case-by-case basis whether or not to send fugitives to territories where it doesn't have formal extradition deals -- such as Taiwan, Macau and mainland China. Lawmakers have said the guarantee of a fair trial will not be written into the bill.
Business groups in Hong Kong usually take a neutral stance on contentious political issues. But this time they have also spoken out against the bill. In a bid to secure their support, the government has limited the scope of extraditable offenses -- but for some that is still not enough.
The American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong warned last week that there were "too many uncertainties in fundamental sections of the proposed legislation" for it to be passed in its current form.
"Hong Kong is not ready to see this bill passed and we do not see why it should be rushed through when the loophole it seeks to address has existed for 20 years," AmCham said in a statement.
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China’s putting chaos on too many fronts... this looks like a small change but it would be a disaster down the road.
CNN considers Taiwan “a territory?”
” Lawmakers have said the guarantee of a fair trial would not be written into the bill.”
I mean really? is that any reason not to proceed with it ?!?!!
Hong Kong Banks that have operated under HK laws will now get nationalized under mainlanders laws.
Oh and all those protestors and dissidents are going to make a good new supply of body parts in the PRC.
THIS could be the flashpoint as the PRC eats HK and some other nation wants to "liberate" the oppressed.
To put it another way — there are 327 million people in the US. Imagine 32 million people turning out to protest in one day. About 10% of the population. That is what happened in Hong Kong today.
Yeah, not a small change.
HK has “Common Law”, but this would allow CCCP to circumvent that and pur everyone effectually under their “Civil Law”. which is: “the government is always right”.
Lot of damage will be caused.
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