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Chinese state media has urged authorities to take a "tougher line" against protesters in Hong Kong who vandalised state-run Xinhua news agency and other buildings at the weekend, saying the violence damaged the city's rule of law.
[...] In an editorial, state-backed China Daily newspaper criticised the "wanton" attacks by "naive" demonstrators, adding, "They are doomed to fail simply because their violence will encounter the full weight of the law."
Police fired tear gas at black-clad protesters on Saturday and Sunday in some of the worst violence in the Asian financial hub in weeks, with metro stations set ablaze and buildings vandalised.
Violence also erupted on Sunday after a man with a knife attacked several people and bit off part of the ear of a pro-democracy politician. Two of the victims are reportedly in critical condition, according to reports.
The past five months of anti-government protests in the former British colony represent the biggest popular challenge to President Xi Jinping's government since he took over China's leadership in late 2012.
Protesters are angry at China's perceived meddling with Hong Kong's freedoms, including its legal system, since the Asian financial hub returned to Chinese rule in 1997. China denies the accusation.
The widely-read Global Times tabloid on Sunday condemned the protesters' actions targeting Xinhua and called for action by Hong Kong's enforcement agencies.
"Due to the symbolic image of Xinhua, the vandalizing of its branch is not only a provocation to the rule of law in Hong Kong, but also to the central government and the Chinese mainland, which is the rioters' main purpose," it said.
On Friday, after a meeting of China's top leadership, a senior Chinese official said it would not tolerate separatism or threats to national security in Hong Kong and would "perfect" the way it appointed the city's leader.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday November 06 2019, @03:22PM (4 children)
Naive western propagandists who promote (and, most obviously, operate) Hong Kong protests are failing to understand two fundamental concepts of Chinese civilization: Huaxia and Tianxia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huaxia [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianxia [wikipedia.org]
And as well they are completely ignorant about concept of martial arts virtues: Wuxia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxia [wikipedia.org]
For illustration of the complexity in relations of those, I recommend to study in detail a story line of the movie Hero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_(2002_film) [wikipedia.org]
which spectacularly represents Huaxia by Tianxia through Wuxia.
Hong Kong demonstrations exhibit no such qualities at all. By a civilization paradigm, they are not Chinese. Why their leaders use biblical (Joshua, Nathan) names?!??
So, to my perception, they are obviously just puppets of the youknowwhom.
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 06 2019, @03:40PM
They are clearly tainted by the daj00s for 99 years. Clearly every people should have its own nation and every nation should stick to their own lane.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 06 2019, @04:36PM
One wonders how your arguments would play against a non-straw man. Naive Western propagandists can't get that kind of turnout.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 06 2019, @07:15PM
Yes. It's almost as if they have a 99 year heritage [wikipedia.org] of a western civilization [wikipedia.org], and had been promised to maintain their own governmental style [wikipedia.org], rather than following classical Chinese values, and are pushing back against the forcible imposition of foreign [wikipedia.org] and different [wikipedia.org] values [wikipedia.org].
But I'm sure it's just because they are just good Chinese people just like those who went through the Maoist takeover and Cultural Revolution, and are merely puppets of nefarious foreign powers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 07 2019, @06:06AM
You call out others as propagandist and yet appeared to have swallowed Chinese government propaganda wholesale. Communist China is not the inheritor of traditional Chinese culture and in fact stands in opposition to it. I would have thought that the cultural revolution was sufficient evidence of this.