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Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong

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Re: Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong

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Just a side note: 1. Hong Kong, at least on paper, is ruled by a governing entity elected by Hong Kong people. Mainland party hasn’t acted yet because, again, on paper, this is a Hong Kong issue. But things could get messy when Hong Kong government cries for help 2. The protest started when a bill that many feared could be used to target and deport anti-China citizens. Hong Kong government was quick to withdrawn and…

Claims without citations, 5 day old account, comment history shows user is from china: not sure if I'd trust the comment.

Re: Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong

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Just a side note: 1. Hong Kong, at least on paper, is ruled by a governing entity elected by Hong Kong people. Mainland party hasn’t acted yet because, again, on paper, this is a Hong Kong issue. But things could get messy when Hong Kong government cries for help 2. The protest started when a bill that many feared could be used to target and deport anti-China citizens. Hong Kong government was quick to withdrawn and…

> is ruled by a governing entity elected by Hong Kong people.

You called "elected" by a group consists of 1200 people as elected by Hong Kong people?

Re: Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong

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Just a side note: 1. Hong Kong, at least on paper, is ruled by a governing entity elected by Hong Kong people. Mainland party hasn’t acted yet because, again, on paper, this is a Hong Kong issue. But things could get messy when Hong Kong government cries for help 2. The protest started when a bill that many feared could be used to target and deport anti-China citizens. Hong Kong government was quick to withdrawn and…

The pictures we're seeing is of cops beating, rubber-shooting and tear-gassing protesters in tight spaces without obvious provocation.

Every story has two sides and things on the other side - police officers bitten to bleed or eyes flashed by high power laser pointers. The sad thing is, we gotta take whatever the media feeds us:)

Re: Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong

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post #8

Actual news: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3022479/chin...

SCMP has become a CCP mouthpiece after Jack Ma bought it.

The post doesn't contain much in terms of commentary, but it does include a quote describing this as a "psychological warfare tactic", so it doesn't seem to be that biased yet.

Re: Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong

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This is really bad and definitely triggers memorys of the Tiananmen massacre. I'm very interested how the rest of the world is going to react to these developments considering the position of China only got stronger since the Tinanmen situation. I recognized that the reaction of e.g. Germany was considerably weaker to the HK protests than e.g. the Arab Spring protests, but I guess we just have to wait and see.

Edit: Grammar

Re: Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong

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post #8

Actual news: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3022479/chin...

SCMP has become a CCP mouthpiece after Jack Ma bought it.

SCMP still publishes a lot of anti CCP articles and is banned in China.

Re: Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong

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post #4

Sigh. Hopefully we won't get a repeat of the Tiananmen square massacre. I've not seen any nations speak out about the HK protests. Unlike, say, when many expressed support for the Arab Spring.

Unlike the governments of the countries in the Arab Spring, China knows the west won't try anything (overtly), so a statement would only look foolish and help their claims that the protests are orchestrated, rather than serving as a warning.

Re: Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong

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post #13

Just a side note: 1. Hong Kong, at least on paper, is ruled by a governing entity elected by Hong Kong people. Mainland party hasn’t acted yet because, again, on paper, this is a Hong Kong issue. But things could get messy when Hong Kong government cries for help 2. The protest started when a bill that many feared could be used to target and deport anti-China citizens. Hong Kong government was quick to withdrawn and…

> is ruled by a governing entity elected by Hong Kong people. You called "elected" by a group consists of 1200 people as elected by Hong Kong people?

There is no perfect election format, even if the presidential election of US is often discussed for possible modifications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
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