Posted on 11/16/2019 1:15:58 PM PST by Olog-hai
Chinese troops came out of the barracks in Hong Kong on Saturday — not to quell protests but to help clean up.
It was a rare public appearance by the People’s Liberation Army on the streets of the semiautonomous territory, where the local government’s inability to end more than five months of often violent protest has fueled speculation that Beijing could deploy its troops.
Running in formation with brooms instead of rifles, they chanted in military cadence before joining street cleaners removing debris near Hong Kong Baptist University, where police fired tear gas at protesters earlier this week. […]
China, which maintains a garrison of about 10,000 soldiers in Hong Kong, publicly noted several times earlier during the protests that it could deploy them, though technically it would have to be requested by Hong Kong’s government.
Doing so, however, would incur international criticism and revive memories of the army’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989.
The Hong Kong government said that it had not requested the military’s assistance in the clean-up, describing it as a voluntary community activity. …
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Miss the Brits yet Hong Kong?
Short video.
Much longer video here: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/11/16/breaking-chinese-army-help-clear-debris-made-protesters-hong-kong-baptist-university/
The protesters are basically antifa thugs.
So they’re being backed by the CPC?
No, the “protesters” are anarchist a-holes who want to destroy Hong Kong. The western media won’t tell you that.
The soldiers were joined by a large number of residents, firefighters and police to begin cleaning up the destruction caused by the antifa thugs. Fortunately, Hong Kongers are finally starting to say enough is enough and confronting antifa. But the antifa a-holes are now throwing molotov cocktails at civilians.
https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/1748407231958250/
There is only one entity that could benefit from such people if they are as you describe, and that’s the Communist Party of China.
Well, antifa doesn’t make sense anywhere. But these folks are pure antifa, not democracy protesters. They use all the same tactics and slogans, anyone who opposes them is a “Nazi,” in HongKong they use the term “Chinazi”—cute. They’re total a-holes.
This term “Chinazi” is actually not inaccurate when it comes to the Communist Party of China, since that entity describes their policy as “socialism with Chinese characteristics”, or national socialism.
And there is no doubt then that any Antifa-behaving thugs mixed in with genuine protesters are doing it for the benefit of the mainland Communist Party.
Well put.
Soldiers make good janitors.
How 'bout the MARINES?
Are they good with a broom or are they BEST with the M4 Carbine, the M249 SAW, the M27 Infantry Automatic and Rifle the M240B machine gun?
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