John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
"One man's trip across the Chinese border for medical treatment ended with him spending hours in police detention without charge or access to a lawyer"
Oh, my God, isn’t that just terrible?
For some perspective, try comparing the response of Chinese authorities with Macron's to the Les Gilets Jaunes in Paris or Israel's regular ambushes on unarmed demonstrators in Gaza.
Macron's tender mercies on the streets of Paris have killed 11 people and injured 2,500, including a number of life-altering injuries such as eyes put out or limbs smashed by police using “bean bag” canon.
Netanyahu's handiwork - not even legally conducted inside Israel but on his neighbor's territory - has killed more than 200 unarmed people and injured many, many thousands, including women and children.
Some of the injuries are too grisly to look at because some of the IDF, that “most moral army in the world,” have used illegal "butterfly" bullets, things which tear out great gobs of flesh on the slightest contact.
I think anyone sensible would have to agree that China has been extremely cautious. Remarkably so.
This is, after all, a vital international airport, a lifeline for an island city like Hong Kong with its business connections all over the world.
What would Boris Johnson and his thuggish cabinet do if a group shut down Heathrow? Or imagine that raging bull, Trump, if JFK Airport were closed the same way? And those examples can’t even capture a sense of the importance of Hong Kong’s airport since there are no good alternatives for the city.
The complete lack of perspective here, I’m afraid, simply screams “propaganda.”
And we have the added background that these demonstrations, at least a core of them, are the work of America’s State Department. We have photos of an American woman Consular official meeting with some leaders. Just totally inappropriate behavior, interfering in another nation’s internal affairs like that. Diplomats term it “unacceptable.”
But of course, this provocation of street demonstrations represents just one small part of the all-out assault America now has underway against China, hurling the entire world towards risk of economic depression or military catastrophe.
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Response to a comment saying, “Interesting footage on CGTN showing fake press passes, arms, thousands of US dollars in cash and other paraphernalia uncovered in raids on demonstrator’s apartments. These riots are not just a ’democratic uprising’ but a coordinated attempt to create chaos in HK by foreign governments”:
Yes, an effort to repeat what happened at Maidan in Ukraine, activities done under the lizard-like watchful eyes of the State Department’s Victoria Nuland.
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Response to a comment speaking to Hong Kong’s declining importance:
Yes, and great new Chinese centers of investment and banking like Shanghai are going to put Hong Kong ultimately into the shadows.
The demonstrators, under American prodding, only hasten the day.
There’s nothing to celebrate here.
