World View: Hong Kong Protests Show Historic Split Between Northern and Southern China

Breitbart ^ | 22 June 2019 | John J. Xenakis

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Thousands of protesters in Hong Kong blocked police headquarters on Friday, continuing their protests triggered by the proposed “Extradition Law.”

In the hope of allowing the protests to fizzle out, the Hong Kong police took no action to disperse the protesters. However, larger protests are planned all weekend.

The proposed Extradition Law would permit Hong Kong’s government to extradite anyone in Hong Kong – citizens, businessmen, and tourists alike – to China, to be tried by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thugs in Beijing courts. The proposed law would also permit mainland Chinese courts to request Hong Kong courts to freeze and confiscate assets related to crimes committed on the mainland and give control of those assets to the CCP in Beijing.

Officials in Hong Kong and Beijing were shocked last week by the size of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. Some two million protesters filled the streets, over one-quarter of the entire Hong Kong population.

With the third protest bringing one-quarter of Hong Kong’s population out on the streets to demand that Beijing’s hand-picked leader Carrie Lam step down, pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan have been emboldened. For the CCP, it is a question of what action must be taken, not whether action should be taken.

When Britain handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997, there was a “one country, two systems” agreement that would allow Hong Kong to retain its own social legal and political systems. There was a strong firewall in the agreement between the Hong Kong and Beijing legal systems that the extradition law would breach.

Carrie Lam has profusely and abjectly apologized to the people of Hong Kong and announced the suspension of consideration for the extradition bill. With activists planning massive new pro-democracy demonstrations on Sunday of last weekend...

[reed13k]

“Carrie Lam has profusely and abjectly apologized to the people of Hong Kong and announced the suspension of consideration for the extradition bill.”

This was new information for me as the last that I had heard they were still pushing forward after last weeks protests. Must have happened later in the week and I missed it.

[ifinnegan]

It’s re-grouping.

She’s not quitting. And if she did an even more pro-Communist Party Chief Executive would be installed.

[ifinnegan]

Author us an idiot.

“Hardliners in Taiwan will also be strengthened”

Anyone who uses a term like this is a ChiCom stooge.

[BenLurkin]

Isn’t it really a matter of westernized china versus Maoist chine?

[ifinnegan]

“According to unnamed CCP sources speaking to Boxun.com, Xi Jinping has already decided that “the situation in Hong Kong is in danger of getting out of control,” and that he will order a military response if the situation worsens.

These sources say that the Southern Theater Command of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the Hong Kong Garrison are awaiting orders and prepared to fully respond to all possible scenarios that may arise in Hong Kong.”

This author is a nutcase.

Breitbart can find better.

[SeekAndFind]

The broad issue aside, what should be of concern is the MURDERER of the woman in Taiwan is still not being brought to trial snd ultimately, JUSTICE while these protests are going on.

It was a DOUBLE MURDER if you take into account the fact that his girlfriend was pregnant.

[marktwain]

The Chinese are running out of time in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and they know it. The survivors of Mao’s Communist Revolution are almost all gone now, and the younger generations are increasingly anti-communist and pro-democracy and pro-independence. At the same time, China’s own economy is hugely unstable and under pressure from the U.S. tariffs. China’s entire business model, which involves stealing intellectual property from the West, is also under attack.

Interesting take by the author.

[ifinnegan]

“The broad issue aside, what should be of concern is the MURDERER of the woman in Taiwan is still not being brought to trial snd ultimately, JUSTICE while these protests are going on.”

The only reason he’s not sent back to Taiwan for trial is because the communists won’t allow it.

This law wouldn’t send him to Taiwan anyhow, but to China.

[SeekAndFind]

The solution would be for the Hongkong legislature to quickly pass a law that would allow extradition of this murderer to Taiwan so that he can be tried and brought to Justice.

Then, after he had been extradited to Taiwan, sunset the law.

[Tai_Chung]

The problem isn’t Taiwan, but China. Nobody trusts China.

[ifinnegan]

Why sunset the law?

But, that’s an aside.

The HK legislature is stacked and acts as proxy for Zhongnanhai.

So they wouldn’t ever pass such a law.

I agree with you. In a sane world he’d be extradited to Taiwan, no issue.