China media says Hong Kong protesters are ‘asking for self-destruction’ as military assembles nearby

CNBC ^ | 08/12/2019 | Grace Shao

[HamiltonJay]

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.

[jdsteel]

“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?

[HamiltonJay]

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.

[jdsteel]

“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!

[rodguy911]

Evidently, this was the chicom game plan all along. Just go in with armed force and start taking out those who demand freedom. There is no freedom in chicom land. Everyone is a slave to the state. The sooner Hong Kong learns it the better for them. They were sold out by the UK years ago.
You would think that those who could leave would already have left,in ten years you won't recognize the place.
Chenzen was always a fall back for the Chicoms as well. They were going to duplicate everything hong kong has in Chenzen across the river from hong kong and then they would be irrelevant.