B-Man Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 HMM: U.K. Government ‘Extremely Concerned’ by Reports of China Detaining Hong Kong Consulate Employee. PLUS: Crew Describe Climate of Fear at Cathay After Hong Kong Sackings. Cathay, founded by an American and an Australian during British rule in 1946, was caught in the middle of the crisis 11 days ago, when China demanded it suspend staff involved in the protest movement. The firm agreed, firing two pilots, but has since been plunged into turmoil after CEO Rupert Hogg was replaced last week. Another pilot, Jeremy Tam, who is also a pro-democracy lawmaker, said on Tuesday that he and others had quit the airline as the internal political pressure was intolerable. “That (China’s aviation regulator) has reached into Hong Kong and directly pressured a local airline is undoubtedly ‘white terror’,” he wrote on his Facebook page, using a popular Hong Kong expression used to describe anonymous acts that create a climate of fear. “There have been resignations from frontline staff to the company’s CEO because of this political trial.” The airline confirmed Tam was no longer an employee and said it could not comment on internal staff matters. China’s aviation regulator has not responded to Reuters’ requests for comment. It looks like Beijing is trying to make examples of a few, trying to scare the rest of Hong Kong back into line. But the protests — already more than four months old — are probably too big for that. Beijing can’t cave to Hong Kong without risking increased dissent on the mainland, but can’t pull off another blacked-out Tiananmen massacre because a few million smartphones would record the carnage. It’s a helluva fix they’re in, and it couldn’t be happening to a nicer bunch of thugs. . 1 1
B-Man Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 HONG KONG CRISIS CONTINUES: Demonstrators confront Beijing’s disinformation campaign –including fake tweets. Remember, all the demonstrators ask is that Beijing honor the Sino-British Declaration of 1984 which guaranteed a distinct system of rule until 2047. BREAKING NEWS: Check out Michael Yon’s website for his video updates. He posted his latest video today, a report on the civil unrest at Yuen Long train station. . 2
B-Man Posted August 21, 2019 Posted August 21, 2019 CHINA’S WARNING TO GLOBAL CEOS: Toe The Party Line On Hong Kong. 1
B-Man Posted August 22, 2019 Posted August 22, 2019 WHAT HATH HONG KONG’S PROTESTS WROUGHT?: China is the Pentagon’s “number 1 priority” says Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. Of course those fake islands filching territory in the South China Sea and Beijing’s pervasive spying and intellectual property theft (theft of American creativity) factor in America’s military and economic response to China’s aggressive expansionism. Creators Syndicate column examines the disinformation campaign Beijing is waging against Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. . 1
B-Man Posted August 23, 2019 Posted August 23, 2019 PARTY LINE: China Sends Letter To More Than 30 Foreign News Outlets Urging More ‘Objective’ HK Reporting. .
B-Man Posted August 23, 2019 Posted August 23, 2019 Michael Yon’s latest report — Hong Kong protests straight, no chaser. .
B-Man Posted August 25, 2019 Posted August 25, 2019 Hong Kong’s 12th weekend of protests include tear gas and 28-mile human chain
Pilsner Posted August 25, 2019 Posted August 25, 2019 https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/touching-moment-in-hong-kong/
Koko78 Posted August 25, 2019 Posted August 25, 2019 31 minutes ago, Pilsner said: https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/touching-moment-in-hong-kong/ I rather like this comment: Quote Jay Unbelievable these people in Hong Kong are fighting for democracy while insane leftists here in the US are fighting for Communism; too bad we couldn’t trade Bejjing’s patriots for our leftist moonbats so they can both practice what they preach. God bless Hong Kong and all those who fight for freedom! 1 2
3rdnlng Posted August 25, 2019 Author Posted August 25, 2019 1 hour ago, Pilsner said: https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/touching-moment-in-hong-kong/ One of the comments from your link: David As Ronald Reagan is credited with saying, “Communism only works in Heaven,where they don’t need it, and Hell, where they already have it.” Let’s pray the Devil is undone in his efforts in this world as soon as possible. Vote Up110Vote Down Reply August 24, 2019 11:18 pm 2
B-Man Posted August 26, 2019 Posted August 26, 2019 HMM: Beijing is manufacturing the circumstances to justify brutal intervention in Hong Kong. The normal Beijing playbook for managing dissent has just not worked in Hong Kong, for four main reasons. First, the protest movement in Hong Kong is what Beijing truly fears—a mass movement whose scale is undeniable. And there’s no clear leadership group Beijing can arrest or intimidate to decapitate the protests, although the authorities have continued to arrest those they think might be important. On top of this, the protesters have been incredibly innovative in shifting the nature, location and tactics of the protests, making containment impracticable. They’ve drawn on international sources of inspiration, as we saw with the kilometres-long ‘human chain’ on the weekend, which echoed the ‘Baltic Way’ protests in 1989 that helped topple Soviet rule in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. And lastly, the protests have been broadcast virally by multiple eyewitnesses through social media and have been covered extensively in the international media. Pretending they’re just by a small group of extremists or about low-level issues, which has worked in the curated information environment of mainland China, just hasn’t washed with international audiences and governments. So, we’ve got to a point where the playbook needs to turn a page. Read the whole thing. . 1 2
Pilsner Posted September 1, 2019 Posted September 1, 2019 (edited) https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/hong-kong-subway-beatdown/ Edited September 1, 2019 by Pilsner
Tiberius Posted September 2, 2019 Posted September 2, 2019 Quote My guess is that the aftermath of a Hong Kong crackdown would be less like Tianamen, which wiped out the student-led democracy movement, and more like Communist Poland after the suppression of the Solidarity trade union in 1981. As in Poland, Hong Kong’s freedom movement is supported by the vast majority of the population. It cannot be stamped out — only forced to move underground. At some point, it likely would reemerge, especially if it had international support. That, sadly, is the missing element in Xi’s calculus. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter bluntly warned the Soviet Union against the military intervention in Poland that it was then preparing, helping Solidarity to survive for 16 months. After Moscow settled for the imposition of martial law by the Polish Army, President Ronald Reagan imposed crippling sanctions and set up clandestine ratlines to help keep the movement alive. As Xi has threatened Hong Kong, Trump repeatedly and publicly sympathized with him. Even under pressure from his advisers, the best he could do was muse that a crackdown would make it politically difficult for him to strike a trade deal. That’s why, while the histories of this summer will not remember Greenland, they may record that Trump opened the way to the suppression of the most important freedom movement Communist China has known. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/history-will-remember-how-trump-responded-to-hong-kong/2019/09/01/25164118-ca65-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html
B-Man Posted September 3, 2019 Posted September 3, 2019 FIGHT THE POWER: Hong Kong Protestors Using Mesh Messaging App China Can’t Block: Usage Up 3685%. . 1 1
Deranged Rhino Posted September 3, 2019 Posted September 3, 2019 https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1168743539402039296 1 5
Bob&Doug Posted September 4, 2019 Posted September 4, 2019 (edited) These protesters are so far ahead of the curve First lasers, then this....... https://twitter.com/PatriotCoburn/status/1168006395884519425 Edited September 4, 2019 by Bob&Doug 1
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