Breitbart:
New Year’s Day brought thousands of demonstrators to the streets of Hong Kong to denounce China’s oppressive policies and to demand respect for human rights and the rule of law.
“Looking back at the year that passed, it was a very bad year,” said protest organizer Jimmy Sham. “The rule of law in Hong Kong is falling backward.”
Estimates for the size of the demonstration ranged from 3,200 to 5,500 people. Even the higher estimate would be only half the size of last year’s annual demonstration. MORE HERE
Lay down with fascists, wake up enslaved.
Too late for hong kong – but not taiwan.
Hong Kong was a very successful entity until England released it back to China, who made promises to allow things to remain the same. England stupidly believed them.
I luved it when he faut Godzilla!
I’m kinda surprised that Obama didn’t betray Taiwan and serve them up to China when he had the chance. Probably just ran out of time before he could.
China is having bad economic problems
and has created a cult of personality
around Xi. HK is a cash cow that
the commies (who really are practicing police state enforced, industrial feudalism) are too stupid to leave alone.
@gin blossom (at 6:02 am): It didn’t really matter if the British believed them or not. In 1841, China ceded Hong Kong to the British, and in 1842 the Treaty of Nanking was signed, formally ending the First Opium War. In 1898, Britain was granted an additional 99 years of rule over Hong Kong under the Second Convention of Peking. That period ended in 1997, at which time the British were in no position to hold on to Hong Kong against Chinese wishes, having lost their empire.
In other words, time was up for the Brits.
The Brits should’ve got at least a 500 yr. lease or 1000 yrs. on Hong Kong.