Daily Mail: Hong Kong leader announces the WITHDRAWAL of hated extradition bill following three months of protests
* Carrie Lam has announced the formal withdrawal of Hong Kong's extradition bill
* The bill would have allowed Hong Kong citizens to be sent to China to face trial
* Hong Kong police fired beanbag rounds in late night skirmishes with protesters
Hong Kong is scrapping the hated extradition bill which has sparked months of protests and violence in the city.
Embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced the bill's withdrawal at a meeting with lawmakers today and confirmed it in a public statement in which she called for dialogue with protesters but refused to meet several other demands.
The bill, which would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, sparked angry protests which have since mushroomed into a wider rebellion and demands for more democracy.
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WNU Editor: Too little too late.
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Yes too late. The opposition has flexed their muscles, there's no going back.
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ReplyDeleteAgreed, James. It kinda looks like the tide is starting to go out. Swine flu and empty cities. Not good.
Well Roger,
DeleteThe mainland may win on paper, but the price they must pay is enormous and I don't think Xi and his people understand that, nor do I think they even have an inkling of how serious the situation really is.
That is an assertion and I take it seriously, but I would like some definition about how or why it is so serious. I have read that Tibet or the Uighur province would get ideas.
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ReplyDeleteYes it's an assertion and I could be wrong, but here is what I think.
Xi just spent the last 5 years moving against some very powerful people, he still has many enemies. A misstep on HK or trade would offer a perfect reason to remove him. The Chinese Communist Party made a deal with the common Chinese leave governing to us and you'll get a great economy, inability to do that invites civil war. Then there is competition between Xi's putative allies ( hardliners vs so called moderates), inability or seeming inability to handle any of this would again be good reasons to move against Xi. There's more but I've bored everyone enough.
Thanks, I just wanted to see where you were coming from.
ReplyDelete- Faction power plays
- Loss or retention of "The Mandate of Heaven"
You're welcome. Everyone seems to think dictatorships are super stable with people who make super rational decisions all the time. This is not so.
DeleteWNU in his posts and others have validated Robert Heinlein IMO.
ReplyDeleteIn the novella or short story "If this goes on", the protagonist is not cleared for higher level mysteries/education until the system gets dirt on him such as an affair. That way if they ever want to take him out they have a petty crime all lined up.
We saw this when a Chinese spy chief was arrested for corruption, when the real charge should have been spying for the CIA (if I remember correctly).
"If this goes on" does not cover factional fighting, but it is a short story and it can't be everything. It is a bit of a text book.