terça-feira, 27 de agosto de 2019

BRICS, China/West will shed no tears for Hong Kong


Published: 2019/8/26 21:33:40, EDITORIAL Global Times (China) http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1162749.shtml 

What on earth happened in Hong Kong over the past weekend? Violence has not only returned to the city, but also escalated.

However, the opposition forces in Hong Kong have been making high-profile accusations against the police for using water cannons. Several Hong Kong police drew their guns and one fired a warning shot on Sunday. Yet all that was portrayed as so-called higher violence from the police. Western media continued to cater to the opposition's claims, describing the warning shot as a sign of escalating street conflicts there, downplaying the fact that rioters' attacks against Hong Kong police are becoming fiercer.

Looking carefully at the videos, one can see a definite clue: A large swath of thugs smashed police cars while several police were inside the vehicles. The police officers who alighted from them were besieged and chased by the rioters. It was during this time that the police raised their guns and one of them fired a warning shot.

When police faces violent mobs, is firing warning shots out of self defense a restraint move or a "violent" one? If the same situation happens in New York or London, how would local police react?

So far, the clashes in Hong Kong have not led to any deaths, because police
restraint and professionalism have played a key role. The Hong Kong police are under countless attacks and malicious treatment. The private information of thousands of police and their families has been exposed on the internet. While their lives are being threatened, their families are also paying a price. Is that what's supposed to happen in a modern society?

The rule of law in Hong Kong is being destroyed by some extremist forces, which is a heavy blow to the international financial center. It is easy to see that some Hongkongers are confused and being used by certain extremist forces in the city. Yet Western politicians have never condemned the mobs. Instead, they have been indiscriminately calling what happens in the city a "democratic movement." It looks like the West is supporting the Hong Kong opposition and radical protesters. They are trying to make these radical protesters the cannon fodder in the game with China.

Hong Kong has returned to China. But Washington is taking the current situation in Hong Kong as an opportunity to "seize the city back" to the West as a US strategy toward China. In the eyes of the US, if the goal cannot be achieved, then let Hong Kong spiral into chaos. Washington could, by then, hypocritically express its regrets while letting Beijing take the blame.

Many Hongkongers are confusing right from wrong while Western public opinion constantly delivers the ideological energy that the radical protesters need.

The West has shed no tears for Iraq, Syria and Ukraine, which had gone through similar hardships. Now, it is turning Hong Kong into the forefront of the struggle with China, and, as usual, they will shed no tears for the city's misery.


Further violence not tolerated

August 27, 2019, Government of Hong Kong (China) https://www.news.gov.hk/eng/2019/08/20190827/20190827_104230_671.html

(To watch the video with sign language interpretation, click here.)

It would be inappropriate to tolerate further violence since the Government has put an end to the fugitive bill which was the cause of recent disruptions in Hong Kong.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam gave these remarks before attending an Executive Council meeting today.

Mrs Lam said the Government would not give up on building a platform for dialogue and noted that the administration has repeatedly replied to different people's demands in the last two months. 

“The most important demand that we have accepted within days after the outbreak of this incident, is to put an end to the (fugitive) bill.

“Because if the bill was the cause of all these disruptions, that has been stopped over two months ago.”

Mrs Lam asserted there is no point in resorting to continued violence, protests and harassment given that the bill has been shelved.

“If we continue to tolerate, accommodate and accept demands because of those protests, that would be a very inappropriate, unacceptable response from the Government.”

The Chief Executive also stressed that the families of police officers should not be persecuted.

“I just could not see the association between the protests and the demands, with the harassment of police families, repeatedly going to the police quarters to do all sorts of threats and intimidation of police families, especially the young children.

“These young kids have to go back to school very soon and I hope every one of us, in particular the education sector, will play their role to protect all these kids.“


Gov’t will not condone violence
August 27, 2019, Government of Hong Kong (China) https://www.news.gov.hk/eng/2019/08/20190827/20190827_104059_263.html?type=category&name=admin

(To watch the video with sign language interpretation, click here.)

Starting a dialogue does not mean the Government will condone violence, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said today.

Speaking to reporters ahead of the Executive Council meeting this morning, Mrs Lam said the only way to stamp out violence is through law enforcement actions.

“You would just imagine if under the pretext of communication or starting a dialogue that we are not going to enforce the laws in Hong Kong, that we are going to tolerate all forms of violence and disruptions in Hong Kong, that will be the end of the rule of law in Hong Kong.”

Mrs Lam added the Government should prepare for reconciliation in society by communicating with different people and that Hong Kong should say no to violence.

“We have to say no to violence, we want to put an end to the chaotic situation in Hong Kong through law enforcement and so on, but at the same time, we will not give up on building a platform for dialogue.”


Commentary: How much has the U.S. offered to Hong Kong rioters?

August 26, 2019, 17:40, People's Daily Online (China) http://en.people.cn/n3/2019/0826/c90000-9609401.html

Over past weeks, repeated attacks by violent radicals in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) have caused law-based governance and freedom, the two things cherished the most by Hong Kong citizens, to be trampled on the ground.
Anti-China forces in the U.S. have not only openly cheered the violent protesters on and made irresponsible remarks about the riots, but provided money, benefits, and advice to the rioters.

According to Ta Kung Pao, one of the most important newspapers in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, a non-governmental organization (NGO) which played a vanguard role in the protests against amendments to Hong Kong's extradition law, has received funds from the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy (NED) since 1995, amounting to a total of more than 15 million HK dollars (around $1.9 million).

From 1995 to the beginning of 2015, NED, through its subordinate body, provided $3.95 million to opposition organizations in Hong Kong, as shown by a report from Wen Wei Po, a Hong Kong-based Chinese language newspaper.

In addition, data released by NED in 2018 revealed that of all the countries that NED allocated funds to, China topped the list at $6.5 million.

These figures are just the tip of the iceberg, as it's believed that most NED spending was not disclosed due to its "sensitivity".

While calling itself an NGO, NED played the role of a backstage manipulator in multiple color revolutions and has an inextricable connection with the U.S. Congress as well as intelligence agencies.

Looking back to the demonstrations in Hong Kong in recent years, it's not hard to find NED's inglorious role in these incidents. For instance, representatives of the opposition organizations of Hong Kong, including Martin Lee Chu-ming and Nathan Law Kwun-chung, went to the U.S. this May to attend and deliver speeches at a forum held by NED, imploring NED to interfere in the proposed amendments to Hong Kong's extradition law.

During the forum, an executive of NED Asian program said to Nathan Law Kwun-chung that from 2014 to 2017, he asked Law the same questions every year: What can we do for you? How can we help you?

As they expected, disturbances in Hong Kong escalated, and demonstrations were turned into violent riots and became increasingly fierce.

Ironically, when riots in Hong Kong were in full swing, Nathan Law Kwun-chung flew to the U.S. to begin his college life at Yale University. Some internet users commented that "he went to his U.S. masters to claim his reward."

According to WikiLeaks, Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, chairman of Hong Kong-based media Next Digital Ltd., is a super funder of opposition organizations in Hong Kong and the middleman between the U.S. and some forces in Hong Kong. Lai spent both money and efforts to fuel the recent protests in Hong Kong, taking a leading position in the disturbances.

As an article published on the website of German newspaper Handelsblatt pointed out, while urging Hong Kong and Beijing to exercise restraint, the U.S. itself was fanning the flames of the confrontation with advice, action and money.

Former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln once said, "You can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time." Following the clues of monetary aid to opposition organizations in Hong Kong, it's easy to see the conspiracy to turn Hong Kong into chaos in the interests of certain parties.

The recent riots in Hong Kong are a product of the U.S., which spent substantial resources and efforts to manipulate Hong Kong.

All in all, the backstage manipulator wants to turn Hong Kong into trouble for China, to contain or stifle China's development.

It must be clear that Hong Kong is part of China. The Chinese government will never allow any external forces to interfere in Hong Kong affairs, let alone turn the city into a mess.

The U.S. had better stop such tricks, obey international law and the basic norms of international relations, make a clean break with the rioters, stop sending obverse signals to radicals, and pull back before it is too late. 

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