China has misread the Hong Kong protest from the start，It’s time to get it right(washingtonpost.com)
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China has misread the Hong Kong protest from the start，It’s time to get it right
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/china-has-misread-the-hong-kong-protests-from-the-start-its-time-to-get-it-right/2019/08/12/a90e7618-bd20-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html
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I don't think China misreads the protests, however their state media depicts it. They see it clearly as a challenge to their authority. It is a push for greater independence for Hong Kong. Beijing simply isn't willing to yield.
Gents, we are the ones misreading Hong Kong.
China is now flexing muscles to show the US and the rest of the free world what they can do: they can destroy one of the richest areas in the world without a sweat, and they brutalise a group of young people who dare protest democracy, with impunity.
Showing military trucks and toys moving around the country, right in the middle of a dispute with the us and knowingly violating a treaty with the UK is China staring the free world in the eye and challenging their power and unity.
China can do anything and get away with it. This needs a strong response from the free world, which includes the EU.
Unlike the US tho the EU is more interested in selling German cars to China than protecting the freedom of those people and freedom generally speaking. It shows division and impotence on its part and the literally non existent power.
I just wish I could do something about it but i just can't and it feels like shit.
China is now flexing muscles to show the US and the rest of the free world what they can do: they can destroy one of the richest areas in the world without a sweat, and they brutalise a group of young people who dare protest democracy, with impunity.
Showing military trucks and toys moving around the country, right in the middle of a dispute with the us and knowingly violating a treaty with the UK is China staring the free world in the eye and challenging their power and unity.
China can do anything and get away with it. This needs a strong response from the free world, which includes the EU.
Unlike the US tho the EU is more interested in selling German cars to China than protecting the freedom of those people and freedom generally speaking. It shows division and impotence on its part and the literally non existent power.
I just wish I could do something about it but i just can't and it feels like shit.