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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ChiCom be crazy liars.
These protesters desperately need to get out their demands.
It’s not about the extradition law anymore... but what is it about?
China’s oppression of the world’s media is astoundingly successful. And no one can be a “spokesman” for the protesters without suffering , well, death.
Someone has to tell the protesters’ story or ...
These protests have been going in for years now.
They’ve cause little problem and they have universal support.
ChiComs simply don’t like their authority refuted.
They don’t like free people.
“These protesters desperately need to get out their demands.”
The law has not been pulled. It was only set aside.
That’s one. Pull the law completely.
The other is to allow Hong Kong to vote for it’s legislators. Currently Beijing appoints the majority.
The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, should also resign.
They also, since police became violent, want investigations in to the police violence.
— you didn’t know “the demands” because the MSN are the MSN.
Coming to the streets of Hong Kong soon, “Tianamen Square Massacre II”, brought to you by the peaceful PLA murderers un Xi and his oh-so civilized Chinese Communist Party, a Party that has killed more people than any other organized force in modern history.
Pres. Trump. Demand that they stop their plans for another massacre, now!
Appreciate the response but it is unsatisfactory.
What do THESE protestors want?
The CIA is perfectly capable of countering CCP influence on our media *IF* the protestors have a clear message to put out.
Consider that the leftists in OUR country would be demanding the same thing once they disarmed the American People
Tyrants murder as easily as they breath.
Raw video of a PLA convoy.
China Begins Hong Kong INVASION 08 11 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86i-uCNTpcM
Hong Kong protesters sing Les Misérables’ ‘’Do you hear the people sing?”, HK international airport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlqj47dyauI
Chinese Troops Enter Downtown Hong Kong 08 11 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI9MBMFleRg
eff off China
“Appreciate the response but it is unsatisfactory.”
Sorry but that’s the answer.
They want the bill rescinded not just put off for a while.
Seems to me they want more...
But I don’t know just what it is.
I think ultimately they want more.
They don’t want to be under communist rule.
Yeah, they need a ‘voice’.
Hard to do since the CCP will kill anyone who stands out.
There’s a poem line that fits this. Can’t bring it to mind now.
This warped philosophy has historically spawned centuries of distress.
The difference is that this time running over their own people with tanks will not be cost-free. As it was when the US had a POTUS who was committed to preserving the supply of cheap labor at all costs.
They very likely will still do it, but our current POTUS will extract a heavy price.
“Deplorables”
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