Comments on: Police ramp up violence against Hong Kong protesters today

By: Andi

Andi — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 21:22:38 +0000

Same here, but I don’t think that the British were in any position to do much about it. They had Hong Kong Island and Kowloon “in perpetuity”, but the lease on the New Territories was for 99 years and ran out in 1997. I don’t think China was too keen on renewing it.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:25:01 +0000

addendum:

Really wish the British hadn’t given the place back.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:24:18 +0000

Well…

Not real happy with China’s response to the Hong Kong protests. But,… so far it is far more restrained than the Tank columns and fixed bayonets of Tienanmen Square.

Hong Kong, mostly, belongs to Beijing now and the sovereign of China are still the sovereign laws of China. Break those laws, defy law enforcement and you fill suffer some kind of consequences, as you would in any nation when you violate the sovereign laws of that nation.

I sincerely HOPE that those consequences remain restrained from previous benchmarks. But, there is little anyone outside China can do except cry about it if they do not.

By: Col Beausabre

Col Beausabre — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 20:36:24 +0000

Here’s a question for you, Will the employees at places like Google sign petitions that demand their companies not work with the US military, Homeland Security and ICE, demand that all contracts with the Chinese government be cancelled and that they withdraw from China until its censorship of the Net ceases and persecution of groups like the Uighurs ends? I think we all know what the answer is, don’t we?