Ribit > ...I wuz just wonderin what all the riots in Hong Kong wuz about. I have and inquiring mind and I want to know.
Well,
One site I like to visit has been telling me that China tried
to coerce Hong Kong into passing a law allowing China to arrest
and take certain suspects back to China for trial . . . And
the Hong Kong residents are quite upset about it.
Zim.
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China: Hong Kong Remembers
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/china/20190709.aspx
July 9, 2019: In Hong Kong, the local pro-democracy groups got millions of locals into the streets to protest government efforts to further erode the “special system” that has governed Hong Kong since 1999 when the British left and Hong Kong became a “special autonomous zone” within China. While this agreement was popular with most Hong Kong residents the Chinese government saw the special treatment as something to be discarded as soon as possible. While Hong Kong was an enormous economic asset, the Chinese government saw the pro-democracy attitudes to the Hong Kong residents as a threat. Over the last five weeks, the government received another reminder of how important freedom is to those who see it threatened.
The current round of popular protests began on June 4th when Hong Kong was the only place in China were thousands of people could gather to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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(Article does continue. Zim.)
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