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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 08 2019, @04:56AM (1 child)
China is famed for injustice and targeting people for all kinds of dubious charges? How in the world is that they have 1/5th our incarceration rate then? It's interesting how often the rhetoric and the facts don't really line up, isn't it?
On the firewall not long ago I'd have agreed with you, but I've gradually come to see that social media is probably even more damaging to a society than many of the things we do strictly control, such as gambling or various drugs. The one and only reason I would never support such a thing in the US is because I do not think our politicians tend to prioritize individual > party > nation. The communist party of China is of course also very motivated by its own interest but I get the perception that the general ordering there is nation > party > individual. I think is a big part of the reason that China has been going into overdrive while much of the rest of the world continues to stagnate. Changes such as filtering in the US would be driven with national interests a distant concern to party interests.
So for instance the CPC does control what can be broadcast on television but instead of requiring just political rants or indoctrination, they require a certain chunk of general educational broadcasting. Imagine if our reality TV or clickbait news occasionally got interrupted for an episode of NOVA? It's possible I'm seeing things with rose colored glasses, but to me this not only seems like a very good idea but one that may ultimately end up being a necessary idea. Or even on recruitment to the CPC. Instead of valuing just blind loyalty, or charisma, or whatever other tertiary skill - they are now primarily focusing on technical skills and knowledge. China has quite a lot of problems, but again is also doing quite a lot of things very right.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday November 09 2019, @01:31AM
Why are you asking this question?
Based on whose evidence?
Indeed.
Yet another place where you've bought into the propaganda. Your assertion is ridiculous, not that I think that gambling or "various drugs" are significantly damaging to a society.