Posted on 11/16/2019 8:56:53 PM PST by Brellium
Hong Kong is on the 'brink of total breakdown' police admit after riot cops are filmed pepper-spraying a pregnant woman and throwing her to the ground
Heavily armed riot police were caught on camera attacking a pregnant woman
They pepper-sprayed her in the face twice and wrestled her to the ground
Senior officer said 'our society has been pushed to the brink of total breakdown'
More than 1,000 people rallied in the centre of Hong Kong at lunchtime today
Police fired tear gas as protesters threw stones and fired catapults at police
Yesterday a protester was shot by police while activists set another man on fire
Hong Kong is on the 'brink of total breakdown', police have said after officers were filmed pepper-spraying a woman and tackling her to the ground on another day of violence in the city.
A video clip shared by leading activist Joshua Wong purports to show heavily armed officers scuffling with a pregnant woman.
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Are theyinEnglish?
//just kidding
I have not posted in some time, and am currently remembering all html markups
The UK owned Hong Kong, but purchased a lease on the "New Territories". When the lease came up the UK declined to renew and as they would have been pushed back to the Hong Kong Island(s) declined to continue to hold on to Hong Kong as well. When releasing Hong Kong to PRC, they signed an agreement with the PRC that they would respect the "One China, Two Systems" approach signed into the agreement for 50 years and also provide the Hong Kong people "Self Determination" or general Democratic rights.
//just kidding
The documents also seem to indicate a plan to use them on Christians and "other groups" as well.
I don’t think they’d turn SF red
They had a lease for Hong Kong. It expired they were required to return it
I seem to remember that it was a 99 year deal, and it expired.
I am not certain about that, however- that was a long time ago!
The 99 year lease ended in 1997. A 50 year semi-autonomous Hong Kong was negotiated, but the Chinese Communists have become greedy, or were just feeling their oats. They started pushing the world to recognize it as an integral part of China and began cracking the whip too early. It was always their plan.
“Officially the “ownership” of Hong Kong was a 99-year lease which ended in 1997. I don’t know of all of the details of why the Brits set it up that way in 1898. This is different from our lease of Guantanamo which has no expiration date.”
Common misconception.
Hong Kong was ceded in perpetuity.
The agreement between UK and PRC did was not based on the lease of New Territories running out and was not mentioned or cited in the handover agreement.
“Hong Kong was leased from China.
The lease was up.
China did not renew the lease”
Sorry. Wrong.
Commonly held but mistaken belief.
San Francisco is already 90% Commie Red.
“When the lease came up the UK declined to renew”
In 1984 UK broached the subject with PRC to renew the NT lease. UK thought it was being polite and there would be no problem.
Deng said no and said the lease and treaties were all illegal in the first place and UK must give all three illegally held territories to PRC.
UK acquiesced.
Too bad Hong Kong citizens don’t have a 2nd Amendment.
One of the few things I can't rag on China about. That is simple self-defense.
That’s how post modern Brits think
Like they fubared South Africa
They subjugated the Boers over two brutal wars in which they punished innocent Boer families in their pursuit of victory
Remind anyone of a war on US soil..
Then they forced Boers and others whites to give over South Africa to black migrants
Then the Brits mosty left after they screwed everything up
I talked to a Chinese person last nite who doesn’t like the Hk protestors
Really
Orientals vote heavily Democrat
Except Vietnamese
I’m not convinced
pity. HK was the only place I liked in China. Very civilized even with chicoms pulling the strings. But the chicoms will brook no dissent, similar to Stalin. so the result is fairly predictable. Mark my works, this will turn out to be tianamen square revisted 30 years later.
Nothing the US can do, we are not going to war with China over how they police their territory.
[ Hong Kong is on the ‘brink of total breakdown’ ]
yikes
[Why did the British give HK away via a treaty anyway? Did someone in the House of Commons lose a bet?]
* The Chinese lost an estimated 800,000 men fighting in the Korean War (dialed down to 100,000+ in the publicly-released Chinese numbers, but probably fudged by them to save face), and it wasn’t even Chinese territory they were fighting over.
Um...let me think about that...communist background...liars, cheaters, spies and thieves...anti-Christian...um...NO!
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