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posted by martyb on Tuesday June 11 2019, @03:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the resistance-is-futile dept.

Hong Kong pushes bill allowing extraditions to China despite biggest protest since handover

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam vowed on Monday to push ahead with amendments to laws allowing suspects to be extradited to mainland China a day after the city's biggest protest since its handover from British to Chinese rule in 1997.

Riot police ringed Hong Kong's legislature and fought back a hardcore group of several hundred protesters who stayed behind early on Monday after Sunday's peaceful march that organizers said drew more than a million people, or one in seven of the city's people.

"I don't think it is (an) appropriate decision for us now to pull out of this bill because of the very important objectives that this bill is intended to achieve," a somber Lam told reporters while flanked by security and justice chiefs.

Also at NYT.

See also: Here’s How Hong Kong’s Proposed Extradition Law Will Impact Its Competitiveness


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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @05:53AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @05:53AM (#854086)

    Sadly, since the British turned stole Hong Kong over to from China, Hong Kong only has whatever freedoms China the United Kingdom feels like not giving it, such as British citizenship, so they could all move to England.

    FTFY, cold war cretin!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @07:39AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @07:39AM (#854106)

    Didn't the Brits steal a lot more from China, than just Hong Kong? Not doing my homework now, but it seems there was much more.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @07:51AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @07:51AM (#854111)

      What are you talking about, 'twas fair deal, the Brits paid with opium.
      And it was the Chinese that started the brouhaha, who set them to ask silver in exchange for the tea, silk and stuff?
      Trump would do the same today, if he only could. Unfortunately, the generic Chinese fentanyl is so much cheaper than the American one.

      • (Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday June 11 2019, @08:21AM (1 child)

        by Arik (4543) on Tuesday June 11 2019, @08:21AM (#854116) Journal
        The Brits conquered much more of China than they could possibly hold for any length of time, and they knew it.

        They invited everyone they thought might help them into the theatre. The Japanese didn't need an invitation. They'd been watching the Brits, and learning everything their example had to teach. It made perfect sense to anyone steeped in British Imperialism that the Japanese were every bit as entitled to rule China as the Brits were to rule India, ^2.

        And then there were the Americans. Picking up pieces of the British Empire, to add to our own, as the former collapsed. Learning, it must say, absolutely nothing from the fact that Brits were collapsing under the weight of their own Empire, as we rushed to build another, and even more unprofitable. Deciding the Japanese were an intrinsically inferior race that deserved to be exterminated on the basis of observing the rape of Nanking.

        Not that it was anything but a truly horrific atrocity. But those who anathematize the other, while covering up their own crimes, should not be role models.

        History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake.
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        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 11 2019, @08:56AM

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 11 2019, @08:56AM (#854124) Journal

          History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake.

          For the sociopaths running the show, it's their wet dream.
          Probably this is why we, the rest, aren't gonna succeed in waking up

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