Posted on 09/08/2019 5:29:49 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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Hong Kong (CNN) - Protests calling on US President Donald Trump to intervene in the ongoing Hong Kong political standoff escalated rapidly Sunday, with marchers setting fire to a barricade outside a subway station entrance in the city's business district.
Earlier in the day, tens of thousands of protesters waving US flags marched on Hong Kong's US Consulate to call for help from the Trump administration in ending a three-month confrontation with the government.
The march began in the Chater Garden public park in Central before heading to the consulate as part of the 14th straight weekend of public demonstrations in the Asian financial hub. In a letter which protesters planned to presented to consulate officials, the group calls for the passing of the proposed "Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act 2019" by the US Congress.
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"We share the same US values of liberty and democracy," 30-year-old banker David Wong said. "USA is a country of democracy. Donald Trump is elected by his people. We want this."
The protests began peacefully but rapidly deteriorated into violence and vandalism over the afternoon, after police appeared to arrest a number of people in the busy Central subway station.
Protesters erected a barricade at one of the subway exits before being setting it on fire. Other exits had their glass windows smashed or defaced with graffiti.
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“Tell that to all the countries helped by the US.”
I’m tired of helping others win liberty.
It’s a struggle to just keep mine.
“Are you that stupid and ignorant?”
Grandma’s drunk again, and it’s just past noon on the west coast.
“It’s a struggle to just keep mine.”
I can tell you, you have no liberty.
No you’re not.
No. Not our circus, not our monkeys.
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It has been suspected that there are police doing undercover work as a protester in attempts to make the protesters look bad. However, it is well known that protesters do set fire to items during protests.
Also, during the weekend for the first time a car was set on fire. This, and the fire at the subway entrance, are an escalation of events. Who actually set them? My guess it was some protesters.
You obviously don't own a mirror and don't read very well.
I understand the people of China need to fight. But right now they are just fighting China for China’s sake. It would be better to stop the protests. You have taught China that protesters will stop when demands are met. If you don’t stop, you have taught China that protesters keep protesting regardless of demands. So the only way to deal with them is to squash them like bugs. Given China’s resources, I think there will be a lot of dead protesters.
The world will not get behind the protesters right now.
Pretty sad...We cannot come to their aid. This is legally Chinese property.
There are TONS of these clowns on FR.
Buncha moody negative nancies. I’ve asked these retards so many times to those who want ALL our troops back..how do we defend and destroy our enemies over THERE if our troops are WITHIN the US??
Pax Americana will never end and should never end. If there is something bad in another part of the world and we can help, so be it.
I for one, am 100% to stick it to the chinks because we all know THEY have a presence here in America that is against us so WHY cant we screw with them? We damn started with tariffs, why stop there?
Demands haven’t been met.
It’s simple. No more control from Beijing. Hong Kong elects it’s own legislature and Chief Exec.
The idea that we will ever be out of Afghanistan and other mid east hot spots is a pipe dream. We now have the biggest power, world order position that Great Britain had 100 years ago. Keeping the enemy pinned down so it doesn’t spread easily is now our burden. The existential burden of “whiteness?”
Tell them to phone Guaido and the Venezuelans for what their chances are.
How many people were in Berlin during the Berlin Airlift? Remember JFK and “Ich bin ein Berliner?” Actually “ein Berliner” is a popular Berlin pastry. Leave out the “ein” and it means what he wanted to say.
Pax Britannica is now ours. See my Comment #54.
OK, good luck with that. 1997 issues may be a good idea. But you have 7 million people on once side of the border and 1.5 billion on the other.
Possibly a better way to ease into democracy is for protesters to stop protesting when their demands are met. As opposed to having the protesters just look for other demands as soon as you meet the original demands. That will just teach China to shoot protesters right off the bat.
The USA gets Hong Kong.
Communist China gets California."
Of course said in jest.
Imagine China filling up all those Marine, Naval and Air Force bases with their red military. Not to mention, taking over all that prime agriculture.
You know nothing about the subject.
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