Posted on 07/02/2021 9:50:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
China’s Global Times propaganda newspaper applauded the escalating absence of “any large-scale opposition” to communism in Hong Kong on Thursday, the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party.
Beijing-controlled Hong Kong officials significantly increased repression of pro-democracy voices in the city in the aftermath of the 2019 anti-communist protests, most notably passing a “national security” law that outlaws expressions of “secession” or “subversion of state power” last year. China passed the law through Beijing’s National People’s Congress (NPC), meaning it does not legally apply in Hong Kong due to the “One Country, Two Systems” policy, but Hong Kong police have implemented it anyway, arresting dozens of prominent protesters for public expressions against communism.
In an attempt to replace suppressed pro-democracy sentiment with loyalty to the Communist Party, Hong Kong officials planned over 100 events in anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the Party on Thursday. July 1 also marks the anniversary of the United Kingdom surrendering Hong Kong to the Chinese Communist Party and typically attracts pro-democracy rallies, so Hong Kong deployed thousands of police to swarm the vast Victoria Park and prevent any anti-communist gatherings. Hong Kong police denied a permit to pro-democracy groups for a rally citing Chinese coronavirus concerns despite allowing gatherings to celebrate communism on the same day.
The Global Times celebrated the changes in Hong Kong, referring to the peaceful, pro-democracy protests of 2019 as Hong Kong’s “darkest moments.” In an interview with the propaganda outlet, “expert” Lau Siu-kai of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong & Macao Studies celebrated Hong Kong’s “new phase” and urged authorities to increase communist propaganda in schools to fully subdue any pro-freedom sentiments.
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In communist China everything is fine and glorious, Comrade.
The Wuhan Flu pretty much took care of the original protests.
There won’t be much opposition to their take over of Taiwan either. The West will make a lot of noise but do nothing, and China knows it.
‘There Won’t Be Any Large-Scale Opposition’ because they are all either dead, imprisoned or in the process of having their organs removed so the CCP can rake in more profits.
Gracefully surrender the things of youth: birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan.
CNN sure thought so this week
China spent every year after 1997 (and some before) laying out its networks of officials and supporters. From the transition onward, they took over police and all law enforcement, and slowly and steadily converted them. Their perfection of mass surveillence technology in China made it easy to roll out in Hong Kong
By the time they were ready to push through and enforce the “National Security Law,” putting the machinery into action was a piece of cake.
It seems they have figured out how to snuff out freedom with hardly a whimper.
They’ll be trying it here in the USA.
They knew if Trump was in office that wouldn’t happen
First the U.S., then Hong Kong... Check!
Next Taiwan...
Then the Philippines , Malaysia, N.Z., and Australia,,,
Hmmm... Sounds familiar to me...
I know I’ve lived through this song before...
“They’ll be trying it here in the USA.”
Already well-advanced. Soros’s Secretary of State and District Attorney Projects, discourage patriots from joining police and armed forces, fill gaps with politically-correct substitutes and no worries about extra-Constitutional orders.
That explains why everyone was off on vacation celebrating all over the federal offices in the USA. Couldn't get anyone on the phone or computers. And news media had to sober up fast after parties to be on the air. Wolf Blitzer hurt his back dancing the tango with Don Lemon.
The USA helped build China for what it is now. The country was once a dirt poor sh*thole occupied by Imperial Japan and inexplicably America let Asia go communist.
They already are.
And let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Seriously, if you know its history, Hong Kong represents such an insult to China that I have no doubt they want to strip it of its power and international relevance, and turn it into a coastal backwater.
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