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China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 06 2019, @10:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the getting-roughed-up dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 08 2019, @01:19PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 08 2019, @01:19PM (#917847) Journal

    I'm not sure you're engaging in good faith here. That is a huge tangent that has little to do directly with the point.

    A tangent some AC introduced. Several times someone has similarly claimed problems in US or developed world societies while ignoring that China has those problems as well. It's a dead end not because it's irrelevant but because China happens to be worse at it.

    But beyond that, it's a humorous tangent. I can only imagine you thought your question was rhetorical, because the answer is that it's the US, by a huge margin. China's CO2 emissions are 7.7 tons of CO2/capita. The US is more than double that at 15.7. Those figures are made even more absurd by the fact that a huge chunk of China's emissions are also driven by manufacturing outsourced by countries, including the US, so we can bypass our more stringent labor/environmental laws!

    Because mass of CO2 emissions are the sole measure of pollution? I assure you that a lot more people per capita are dying of air, water, and soil pollution in China than the US. And it remains that China's emissions driving by outsourced manufacturing are still China's emissions.