Violent Protests In Hong Kong Reach Their Last Stage?

Reagan administration official Michael Pillsbury: "We're partially involved… We also have funded millions of dollars in programs through the National Endowment for Democracy to help democracy in Hong Kong" pic.twitter.com/vjoNvn2bRO

— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) August 8, 2019

• Sheeple: naive, gullible, easily deceived, useful idiots complicit in their own destruction and the destruction of others. People with an amazing ability to accept any amount of BULLSHIT. Last to know/understand what is going on. First to fall.
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• I think the protests will continue for a while more. It won’t end so soon. It appears the CIA wants the Beijing central government to intervene like in TienAnMen and thus de-legitimize the Beijing government in the eyes of the Chinese people and the world. A violent crack down will trigger even more radicalization among these protesters ie. they will be even more open to violent overthrow of the Beijing government.
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• Violent Protests In Hong Kong Reach Their Last Stage?
  by https://www.moonofalabama.org/
  The riots in Hong Kong are about to end.
  The protests, as originally started in June, were against a law that would have allowed criminal extraditions to Taiwan, Macao and mainland China. The law was retracted and the large protests have since died down. What is left are a few thousand students who, as advertised in a New York Times op-ed, intentionally seek to provoke the police with “marginal violence”:
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  Such actions are a way to make noise and gain attention. And if they prompt the police to respond with unnecessary force, as happened on June 12, then the public will feel disapproval and disgust for the authorities. The protesters should thoughtfully escalate nonviolence, maybe even resort to mild force, to push the government to the edge. That was the goal of many people who surrounded and barricaded police headquarters for hours on June 21.
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  The protesters now use the same violent methods that were used in the Maidan protests in the Ukraine. The U.S. seems to hope that China will intervene and create a second Tianamen scene. That U.S. color revolution attempt failed but was an excellent instrument to demonize China. A repeat in Hong Kong would allow the U.S. to declare a “clash of civilization” and increase ‘western’ hostility against China. But while China is prepared to intervene it is unlikely to do the U.S. that favor. Its government expressed confidence that the local authorities will be able to handle the issue.
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  While the protests against the extradition bill may have been backed by some tycoons, it is obvious that there is also a large U.S. government influence behind them. It is the U.S., not some oligarchs, which is behind the current rioting phase.
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  In 1992 Congress adopted the United States–Hong Kong Policy Act which mandates U.S. government ‘pro-democracy’ policies in Hong Kong. Some Senators and lobbyists now push for a Support Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act which would intensify the interference. Before the June protests started Secretary of State (and former CIA head) Mike Pompeo met with the Hong Kong ‘pro-democracy’ leader Martin Lee and later with ‘pro-democracy’ media tycoon Jimmy Lai. The National Endowment for Democracy finances several of the groups behind the protests. Such interference is against Hong Kong’s Basic Law:
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  The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People’s Government, or theft of state secrets, to prohibit foreign political organizations or bodies from conducting political activities in the Region, and to prohibit political organizations or bodies of the Region from establishing ties with foreign political organizations or bodies.
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  Despite that law the U.S. National Endowment of Democracy spends millions on organizations in Hong Kong: (picture top of post)
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  The rightwing Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions has long been financed by U.S. regime change organizations. That it represents the airport workers may be the reason why the protests recently escalated there. The last three days protesters blocked the Hong Kong airport and violentlyhindered people from departing on their booked flights.
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  Travelers who spoke Mandarin were attacked. The scene became extremely ugly when a journalist from the Chinese Global Times was beaten until he fainted. Protesters claimed that he was with the police and hindered paramedics from reaching and caring for the man. Only when police intervened were the first-aiders able to remove the unconscious person. One of the rioters who beat the man had a U.S. flag in his hand (vid). When the stretcher was rolled out of the airport another protester with a U.S. flag on a pole ran after it and beat the patient (vid).
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