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Hong Kong reels from armed mob violence

Dozens injured after masked men storm a train station to attack pro-democracy protesters.
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A mob of masked men armed with batons stormed a train station in the Hong Kong district of Yuen Long on Sunday.

Footage posted on social media showed the men, all in white T-shirts, violently attacking people on platforms and inside train carriages.

At least 36 people were injured in the violence, local media report.

The mob attack followed the latest pro-democracy rally in the centre of Hong Kong, where riot police had fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters.

It is unclear who the mob were or what the motives for the attack were.

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This is a clip from Gwyneth Ho (@StandNewsHK)'s live video. Look at how vehement and vicious the white-shirts are in their attacks on protesters. Look at their matching weapons – their long wooden sticks & umbrellas. #antielab #YuenLong
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In a statement, the government said that in Yuen Long "some people congregated at the platforms of the MTR station and train compartments, attacking commuters".

"This is absolutely unacceptable to Hong Kong as a society that observes the rule of law. The SAR [Special Administrative Region] Government strongly condemns any violence and will seriously take enforcement actions."

Hong Kong Police also said: "Some people attacked commuters at the platforms of the Yuen Long MTR station and train compartments, resulting in multiple injuries."

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#HongKong protesters only have one question in mind now: Where was the Police? @hkpoliceforce

Video filmed inside #YuenLong MTR train station.

Men in white tee were reportedly thugs sent by different gangs to go after #HongKongProtest ers.#extraditionbill

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The mob stormed Yuen Long MTR station at about 22:30 local time (14:30 GMT), hours after clashes betrween protestors and police in the Sheung Wan area earlier in the day.

Yuen Long is a more remote district of Hong Kong, and is far away from the site of the main pro-democracy protests.

What happened at the rally earlier on Sunday?
Riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters in Hong Kong at a large pro-democracy rally, and charged demonstrators who threw objects at police lines.

The protest route was altered with protesters told to stop at Wan Chai rather than Central, where the key government offices are located.

Some 4,000 police officers were deployed.

Bonnie Leung from the Civil Human Rights Front urged Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to "stop turning a deaf ear to the Hong Kong people's demands".

Organisers of Sunday's protest say more than 430,000 people took part but police put the figure at 138,000.

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Media captionTear gas fired at Hong Kong pro-democracy protest
Mass protests have been held for weeks, initially over an extradition deal with mainland China but now covering other issues on democracy in Hong Kong.

Late on Sunday, riot police equipped with masks and shields were seen swarming towards protesters close to a ferry terminal on the main island.

Images outside of the liaison office, China's central government building, show signs covered in graffiti. One of the slogans reads: "You taught us peaceful marches are useless."

China's central government liaison office in Hong Kong is covered in graffiti
Image copyrightAFPImage captionProtesters threw eggs at the Liaison office's sign on Sunday
Some protesters also covered the CCTV cameras outside a police station with spray paint.

The latest rally was put on edge after a huge haul of explosives was found along with protest leaflets.

On Saturday, a counter-rally in support of the police and against protest violence drew tens of thousands.

Tear-gas, rubber bullets, the trashing of parliament by protesters and sporadic clashes have created the worst crisis in the territory's recent history.

The Hong Kong government has since suspended trying to pursue the extradition bill.

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Media captionThe BBC's Stephen McDonell was amid the pro-democracy protesters as tear gas began to be fired
The former British colony is part of China but run under a "one country, two systems" arrangement that guarantees it a level of autonomy. It has its own judiciary, and a legal system that is independent from mainland China.

What was Saturday's counter-protest about?
It took place in the central Hong Kong district of Admiralty on Saturday, attracting 103,000 people according to police, but more than 300,000 according to organisers.

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Media caption"You are fake news" - BBC correspondent heckled live on air during Saturday's rally
It was themed "Safeguard Hong Kong". The South China Morning Post said attendees included locals, mainland immigrants, members of ethnic minorities and visitors from across the border.

The rally, which won coverage in Chinese state media, focused on support for the police and condemnation of the violence that has marred pro-democracy rallies.

Views differed, however, on how the Hong Kong government had tackled the crisis.

How did this wave of protests start?
They were sparked by the proposed extradition bill that would have allowed people to be sent to China for trial.

Critics said it would undermine Hong Kong's judicial independence and could be used to target those who spoke out against the Chinese government.

The Hong Kong government suspended the bill, but this has not halted the demonstrations, which now reflect broader demands for democratic reform and concerns that freedoms are being eroded.

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Media captionHong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam has said there is "no plan" to continue with the bill but this has not convinced critics
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Actual graffiti said:
You taught us peaceful marches are useless.
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Holy fuck, they're serious!
 
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Hong Kong will be crushed and forgotten.

At least its entertaining to watch.

Anybody mentioning the terms 'independence' and 'democracy' in the same sentence as 'china' is seriously brain damaged or at least 2016 DNC levels of deluded. China would go to total war and the last time anything close to that happened in Korea the US army was undertaking America's longest military retreat in history.
 
There's five main categories:
1. Antifa tier thugs who are hitting people for no real reason
2. Protesters who are against the potentially damaging ambiguous policies, peaceful
3. People who are in favour of unity
4. idgaf
5. Separatists

There's been many streetfights concerning 1). The same people got ridiculed after the protests by 3) and 4). 5) is impossible, HK's electricity and water goes through Shenzhen...
It's not black and white as usual. HK itself is quite diverse in thought.
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1899, Bongs invade Yuen Long, locals fight back
1941, japs invade Yuen Long, locals fight back
2014, "umbrella movement" thugs invade Yuen Long, locals kick them out
2019, thugs try to invade Yuen Long again, kicked out.
The following says something about how people from that area are true locals who have ancestry there etc. This isn't really false, I've came across many mainland locusts who turn the table and think they are actually a native to HK after getting residency, parroting cynical languages. Only slants can be so racist where people within a country call each other parasites. Some who claim to have ancestry in HK told me "true HKers aren't like those thugs", can't verify. Obviously a no-true Scotsman at this point but most slants can't comprehend fallacies, so whatever they like.

One must say though, if HK acted like Macau which is pretty much untouched, nothing really would have escalated like this. The party is a dictatorship. However, that's not to say the problem can't be approached in a civil manner. Let them have their true votes knowing it's literally impossible for independence, and work on the criminal deportation shit. Make it pilpulistic rather than ambiguous. It will be fucking shit if people are sentenced in the mainland over treason or whatever just for opening their mouths and saying the party sucks, which when it comes to many areas, they totally fucking do. Saying this stuff in China will get me into trouble, that's how bad it has been under Xi.

Xi belongs to the hardline Maoist military sector of the party. Much like the "Menshiviks and Bolsheviks" back during the soviet era. The other wing wants market stability, relatively free trade, and so on. They opened up the markets in collaboration with many top economists back then, which saw a booming economy. Xi wants this gate shut now, so God knows what will happen. Deng, the guy who ordered Tanks to suppress protesters was himself a market capitalist whom I actually quite like despite family history, so he's probably in the middle, and ultimately why the phrase "Chinese styled socialism" is coined. It's really national socialism is you think about it, minus rollercoasters and ovens, calling it that is however stupid and slanty optics (bad).

I obviously think it's better for both sides to work shit out, and that's pretty much most people as well. Unlike most western countries, China cares a lot about flags and emblems, defacing them will never lead to anything positive. We all have these flag laws but no one gives a fuck about them since it's never remotely enforced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Flag_Code
  • The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker’s desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.
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And how many fashion brands offer US-flag-themed clothing? Yeah.

Forget about clownworld for a moment, it's slantworld.
 
BoingBoingBoi said:
the causes within hk are fairly well-understood for the overall conflict, but it's not really clear what it will take to end the protesting. one part of the problem is that the goals are so nebulous, but i think carrie lam stepping down would help diffuse things significantly. another part is that the numbers of protesters themselves have dwindled significantly since early june, and so a larger proportion of them are the radical and potentially violent ones who have made headlines lately.

still a massive problem for the emperor that appeared on his watch. in fact, he's started quite a few fires since he began ruling: south china sea expansion, a trade war with the us, xinjiang detention camps, social credit system, lowest economic growth since records began, and now a horribly miscalculated attempt at rapid hk integration---all of which have made international headlines for bad reasons for china. one might almost call xi completely reckless, and i can't imagine there being nobody in the ccp who agrees.
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I am a bit concerned about how this may stress the already fracturing ethnic lines in China. The dominant Han Chinese who are from the North are only 40% of the population. What we call "Chinese Language" is Han. Hong Kong on the other hand is the crown jewel of the Yue Chinese, which we often call "Cantonese" after the city of Canton or Guangzhou. People don't realize just how ethnically and linguistically diverse China actually is. The central government is already dealing with nightmare level ethnic tensions in the west with the Uighur and the Tibetans. This could cause further issues in their coastal heartland.
 
Brave Hong Kong citizens turn back CHICOM furry riot police, colourised, 2019.

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Gustav Schuchardt said:
Raises the interesting parallel of Khrushchev who was deposed for 'adventurism'.
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Krusch was fucking nutso, like let's blow up some nukes so rivers run backwards so all crops are replaced with corn .... or I'm going to eat my shoe nutso.

Xi impresses me like a much smarter motherfucker, not even in the same league as Krusch.
 
Gustav Schuchardt said:
You can definitely make a case that Xi is overreaching and it will come back to bite him in the ass.
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Oh he has definitely overreached. There are three pillars to the Chinese government, the so called "tripod". The Communist Party, the actual government of the country and its bureaucracy, and the military. Ever since Mao died they have made dead sure that only one man is in charge of each part. So the General Secretary of the Communist Party would not be President, and neither would be the ultimate authority in the military chain of command. Or at least they were. Xi now holds all three positions simultaneously. It gives him enormous power, but at the same time restrains his ability to distance himself from any failure. So when Vietnam gave the Chinese a spanking in 1979, Deng Xioping who was Chief of General Staff at the time could take responsibility while the General Secretary of the Party could claim to not be fully responsible. It would also prevent a return to the bad old days of Mao's cult of personality.

Well, all of that is eroded now. Xi has limited his ability to save face, while at the same time made it so that ANYTHING that goes wrong reflects on him personally, not just on a portion of the State.
 
So this is how the Great War of 2077 will begin...better start investing in Vault-Tec real soon.
 
Palpatine said:
There is certainly a strong argument to be made that the whole HK situation was orchestrated by Xi's political enemies to make him look bad.
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Not really, just point at all that people that have dissapeared thanks to winnie over here and call him a silly old bear
Thats all you need to make him look bad
 
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