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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.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @12:04PM (1 child)
Theoretically, it's not. Only the control of parasites (corruption) and elimination of dead wood (old, deprecated practices) are necessary. But those two are a very hard thing to do without political freedom.
By the by, corruption is hard to avoid even in democracies, no matter what name you chose for corruption - e.g. bribes, lobbying or super-PAC.
The death of "empires" is never nice, but it's as inevitable as the extinction of mega-fauna. An empire is a huge ossified structure too slow and heavy to move ahead through time.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday June 12 2019, @06:27AM
Right after I defeat compound interest and infidelity.
Hold your breath now!
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