Posted on 06/15/2019 10:52:17 AM PDT by cba123
HONG KONG, June 15 (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Saturday indefinitely delayed a proposed law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, in a dramatic retreat after anger over the bill triggered the city's biggest and most violent street protests in decades.
The extradition bill, which would have covered Hong Kong's seven million residents as well as foreign and Chinese nationals there, was seen by many as a threat to the rule of law in the former British colony.
Around a million people marched through Hong Kong last Sunday to oppose the bill, according to organisers of the protest, the largest in the city since crowds came out against the bloody suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations centred around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.
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I live in Hong Kong
The protests are not misguided, as you suggest. Joseph Lau was convicted in absentia in Macao while he was in Hong Kong. There is no functional distinction between requesting rendition of a suspect versus a convict. Communist China wants to be able to extradict anyone charged with a crime that is punishable with a sentence of seven years or more, which is a list of offenses that include political crimes. The communists want to be able to grab people under colour of law, since they they do not wish to kill their golden goose: the Hong Kong money maker.
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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2005/09/war-games-russia-china-grow-alliance
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by Peter Zwack
September 9, 2018
The drums are already rolling for the upcoming Russian Vostok (east) wargames commencing on September 11.
With its focal point in the Trans-Baikal region of eastern Siberia adjoining Chinese Manchuria and Mongolia, this is a nationwide Russian military and societal event.
Touted by Russian minister of defense Sergei Shoigu as unprecedented in scale, both in terms of area of operations and numbers of military command structure, troops, and forces involved, Russian state press is declaring that up to three hundred thousand troops and one thousand aircraft will be involved, with the majority from the Eastern and Central Military Districts.
This would be even larger than the near-legendary Zapad-81 maneuvers held in the western USSR during the depths of the Cold War. ...
One important wrinkle this year is that reportedly up to 3,200 Chinese personal with ninety vehicles, including tanks and thirty fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, will participate.
Most are coming from Chinas Northern Command.
This will be the first time the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) will take part in this formerly purely Russian quadrennial Asia-oriented exercise.
The bulk of participating Chinese personal have already transited from Manchuria into Russia, escorted by Russian military police to the Tsugol training range near Chita. The Mongolians have also sent a small contingent. ...
Same 2018 article...
While Chinese-Russian military activities have in the past been mostly symbolic and representational, they appear increasingly interactive.
The PLA, not blooded since its brusque 1979 defeat by Vietnam, likely hopes to learn from Russias newly gained fighting expertise derived since 2014 in eastern Ukraine and Syria.
What is key to determine is if their interaction evolves more ominously into interoperability exercises where substantial and varied forces can operate in tandem and jointly in coordinated operations.
Dating back to 2005, Russia and China have exercised modest forces together in a mostly counterterrorist role in Central Asia and in Russia as part of the Chinese-driven Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
Notably, SCO Exercise Peace Mission 2018, involving China, Russia and six other nations, including newly added India and Pakistan, is currently underway in Chelyabinsk (just east of the Ural Mountains).
Bilaterally, they have participated in several small scale naval exercises in the Baltics (2017), South China Sea (2016) and eastern Mediterranean (2015), where they have been mostly show the flag operations designed more to convey sharp signals abroad and show partner support. ...
Another anti extradition/communist protests today. Here’s a 3-in-1 livestream coverage:
https://ncehk2019.github.io/nce-live/
Victory?? Come on! The Chicoms will continue with their Chicom ways. With face recognition, and every other tool they can muster, they will slowly but surely arrest any and all they want to arrest, have show trials and perhaps even live executions in Tiananmen Square. They will also use the tried and true commie method of arresting hundreds in the dead of night, never to be heard of again. The Chicoms are not the weak Soviet Union. They will hold onto and expand their power.
I’d say that is definitely safer to march in Hong Kong than in Beijing.
It is Sunday (HK time) and there is another BIG protest going on. It’s supposed to be larger than the previous Sunday’s march; just have to wait for the numbers to come out.
Hard to say what Carrie Lam will do. If she can calm things way down she may stay on. If she can’t then I think she will be out of a job. Have to wait for Monday and the rest of the week for things to happen.
Hong Kong is doomed. The sun has set on the British Empire. Last independent country for Han people is now Taiwan.
> “I live in Hong Kong”
So what? Many leftists and CCP sympathizers live in the US too.
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