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A full-scale military crackdown on the Hong Kongers resisting imposition of mainland-style tyranny may be in the cards, but President Xi and his supporters must understand that they will pay a monumental price for any bloodbath. From Xi’s perspective, this is terrible timing, all the more painful because it was a change in Hong Kong’s extradition law pushed by Beijing that set off the protests. A pair of videos on YouTube appear to show columns of military units moving into Hong Kong (hat tip: Conservative Treehouse) And the regime has ended the three days of protests (video here) at...

Hong Kong Hit by Another Weekend of Clashes, Tear Gas, Public Anger 2019-08-11 Hong Kong has been rocked by yet another weekend of tear gas, baton charges and angry protests amid a deepening confrontation between anti-extradition protesters and the city authorities. Riot police fired multiple rounds of tear gas at "illegal" protests and made arrests in several districts of the city on Sunday, as pro-China thugs attacked anti-extradition protesters in North Point. "HK Riot Police fired bullet and headshot a young lady," Joshua Wong, a former leader of the 2014 pro-democracy movement, said in a caption to a photo posted...

HONG KONG – Hundreds of thousands of protesters, some waving British colonial-era flags and sporting Edward Snowden masks, were to march in Hong Kong later Monday to denounce the city’s leaders and demand universal suffrage on its handover anniversary. Organizers said they expected more than 400,000 people to take part in the annual rally for democracy, which comes amid concerns in the southern Chinese city that Beijing is increasingly meddling in its local affairs. The annual march underscores the growing gulf between Hong Kong and the mainland 16 years after the city ceased to be a British colony and returned...

Draft interpretations on HK Basic Law reviewed www.chinaview.cn 2004-04-02 18:52:58 Related: Basic Law interpretation not to harm high degree of autonomy: official      BEIJING, April 2 (Xinhuanet) -- The National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, China's national legislature, began here Friday to deliberate draft interpretations on Clause 7 of Annex I and Clause 3 of Annex II of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) concerning issues of constitutional development of the region.     Deputy Director Li Fei of the Commission of Legislative Affairs of the NPC Standing Committee explained the draft interpretations to lawmakers. He said...