Posted on 08/12/2019 10:07:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
On Monday, Chinese officials focused on what they described as “deranged acts” by the protesters, including throwing gasoline bombs, saying they marked the emergence of terrorism in the Chinese city.
China’s media is sending a clear signal to the protesters.
On Monday afternoon, Chinese state-owned English tabloid the Global Times tweeted a video showing the People’s Armed Police assembling in Shenzhen, a city bordering Hong Kong, about a 1.5 hour- drive away.
The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of China’s Communist Party, posted on Chinese social media a statement saying the People’s Armed Police are in Shenzhen prepared to handle “riots, disturbance, major violence and crime and terrorism-related social security issues.”
In a Tuesday social media post from the Global Times‘ Chinese edition, the outlet said “if Hong Kong rioters cannot read the signal of having armed police gathering in Shenzhen, then they are asking for self-destruction,” according to a CNBC translation.
China is “implying they might send in the People’s Liberation Army or issue direct intervention but they don’t want to,” according to Ben Bland, a director at Sydney-based policy think tank Lowy Institute.
”(Beijing) hopes that the signals will scare protesters to back down,” but if and when Beijing decides to deploy troops they will not “advertise it,” he told CNBC. This is all part of a “delicate dance between China and Hong Kong” that’s reached a critical point because there is almost no common ground or overlapping interests between the protesters and Beijing, Bland added.
Although China’s leaders do not want to deploy the PLA, they are “willing to do it if they have to,” the Asia politics expert said.
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If anyone is surprised by this they are fools...
I SCREAMED to anyone that would listen 30 years ago, that CHINA WILL NOT SOFTEN, just because you trade with them... this is an IDIOTIC idea.... But both parties just went right along with the stupidity
For decades I stated, we will be in a hot war with China in my lifetime, and if not mine than certainly my kids... I was told I was a fool.
If you think the Chinese Government has changed, you are a fool. They will mow these people down without so much as a second thought. They are communists, the individual is only as useful as the state deems, and if the individual threatens the state, those individuals will be “removed”.
If you think just because your protests number in the hundreds of thousands that that the Regime won’t slaughter you without thought, or that the Army will not fire when ordered, you are delusional.
China has stood for thousands of years, you think they will hesitate because the rest of the world wants them to do something??? You are a grade a fool.
“China has stood for thousands of years...”
Which “China” do you mean?
The age of warlords? The one where Japan came in and pushed them around? The vassal of the British empire? The ChiComs version 1.0 or the current Fascist ChiComs 2.0?
CHINA, is all of that.. it believed it was the center of the world for well over 1000 years, it dominated Asia (its sphere of influence) like no other nation, and the humiliations it faced in the 20th century that shattered those beliefs, did not break that notion, only make them more determined to reclaim that throne.
It was beyond foolish to believe that if we just open trade with them they will change.
“It was beyond foolish to believe that if we just open trade with them they will change.”
They did change. They became a serious threat to us!
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