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Hong Kong detains several people as world marks Tiananmen anniversary
AFP ^ | 6/3/22 | Holmes Chan and Su Xinqi with AFP Bureaus

Posted on 06/04/2022 3:57:59 PM PDT by Faith Presses On

Hong Kong authorities on Saturday detained several people as they pounced on any attempt at public commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, while around the world tributes were paid to the victims of the bloody event.

As night fell, candles appeared in the windows of several foreign countries' missions to Hong Kong -- in defiance of a warning not to do so -- and on various street corners around the city.

Discussion of the events of 1989, when China set troops and tanks on peaceful protestors, is all but forbidden on the mainland.

Semi-autonomous Hong Kong had been the one place in China where large-scale remembrance was still tolerated -- until two years ago when Beijing imposed a national security law to snuff out dissent after widespread pro-democracy protests in 2019.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: chicoms; china; communism; winniethexi

1 posted on 06/04/2022 3:57:59 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
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To: Faith Presses On

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/asia/hong-kong-june-4-tiananmen-nsl-intl-mic-hnk/index.html


2 posted on 06/04/2022 4:01:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Faith Presses On

Tiananmen 1989, and thousands of other examples of why the people need to have the right-to-bear-arms. It’s the only way that government can fear the people, instead of people fearing the government. If government was supposed to work for the people and the people were the government, events like Tiananmen 1989 would not have occurred.


3 posted on 06/04/2022 4:11:09 PM PDT by adorno
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To: adorno

Skid marks of tanks and ither memes necessary
Titinanium a sqaure root proff some stuff. The start began.


4 posted on 06/04/2022 4:16:11 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks. This was another good one:

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/06/04/pillar-of-shame-tiananmen-memorial-rises-around-the-world-after-hong-kong-communists-tear-it-down/


5 posted on 06/04/2022 6:08:15 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Willing to die for Christ, if it's His will--politics should prepare people for the Gospel)
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To: adorno

The Chinese government is definitely pro-gun control and wants to “help” us go in the “right” direction, too.

https://thenewamerican.com/china-advises-the-united-states-to-adopt-stricter-gun-control/


6 posted on 06/04/2022 6:10:21 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Willing to die for Christ, if it's His will--politics should prepare people for the Gospel)
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To: Faith Presses On
The Chinese government is definitely pro-gun control

The Chinese government is pro-NO-GUNS, period.

They Chinese have no need for gun control if there are no guns to be had. The Chinese want the same in the U.S., and the democrats think like the Chinese.
7 posted on 06/04/2022 7:25:33 PM PDT by adorno
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To: BenLurkin

This too:

“Former US officials want to put a copy of a Tiananmen Square memorial sculpture across the street from China’s embassy in DC”

https://www.businessinsider.com/former-us-officials-tiananmen-square-memorial-across-chinese-dc-embassy-2022-3


8 posted on 06/04/2022 7:30:05 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Willing to die for Christ, if it's His will--politics should prepare people for the Gospel)
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To: adorno

I can’t argue with you there. Their default doesn’t seem to be to think in terms of the world, or foreign affairs—unless it somehow has application to domestic politics, like “Russia.”


9 posted on 06/04/2022 7:32:11 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Willing to die for Christ, if it's His will--politics should prepare people for the Gospel)
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To: Faith Presses On

Putin also said that the US has too many firearms in civilian hands. Obviously KGB Putin would say that, it’s very hard to have a private firearm in Russia; the law dates back to Soviet times and remains unchanged.


10 posted on 06/04/2022 8:09:30 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: Faith Presses On

10,000 killed in Tiananmen Square according to British intelligence sources.

An atrocity.


11 posted on 06/04/2022 9:39:32 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My body, my choice....but not when it comes down to unconstitutional "vaccine" mandates.)
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