Western Media Portrays Hong Kong Hooligans as Heroes. But Are They?

• Western Media Portrays Hong Kong Hooligans as Heroes. But Are They?
  by Andre Vltchek, https://www.rt.com/
  Whenever Hong Kong protesters are destroying public property, there are no cameras of Western media outlets in sight. But when police decide to intervene, protecting their city, Western media crusaders emerge in full force.
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  On Sunday, huge US flags were waving in the air. A massive demonstration, consisting of mainly young people, was moving up from the old British-built downtown area of the city towards the US Consulate General, often erroneously called the “embassy.”
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  The temperature was well over 30 degrees Celsius, but the number of ‘protesters’ kept growing. Many of the main arteries in Hong Kong were entirely blocked. Western media were there in full force, wearing yellow fluorescent vests, their ‘Press’ insignia, helmets and masks. They mingled with the crowd, filming US flags, clearly enjoying the show.
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  “President Trump, Please Liberate Hong Kong,” I read on several posters. “Liberate from whom?” I asked a cluster of protesters, all of them in ninja outfits, metal bars in their hands, black scarves covering their faces. Several of them replied, mumbling something incomprehensible. One girl shouted defiantly:
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  “From Beijing!”
  “But Hong Kong is China, isn’t it?” I asked. “How could it be liberated from itself?”
  “No! Hong Kong is Hong Kong!” came a ready-made reply.
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  Nearby, I spotted British Union Jack, with old colonial-era Hong Kong coat of arms. The big demonstration was clearly treasonous. Its members delivered a petition to the US consulate general, demanding that the US Congress pass legislation that would require its government to monitor and decide whether Hong Kong is ‘autonomous enough’ from the PRC, and whether it should then qualify for US trade and economic benefits.
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  All over the downtown area, hundreds of ‘ninjas’ were shouting pro-Western slogans. Here British-era HK flags were being waved, alongside the US flags. I approached a young couple among the protesters, who were resting on a bench:
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  “Do your friends realize how brutal, undemocratic and oppressive was British rule? Do they know in what misery many Hong Kong citizens had to live in that era? And about censorship, humiliation…?”
  “No!” They shouted at me, outraged. “It is all propaganda!”
  “Whose propaganda?” I wondered.
  “The propaganda of Beijing!”
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  At least they spoke some English. A bizarre thing about Hong Kong is that, while some people here would like to (or are perhaps paid to say that they’d want to?) have the British colonial administration back, a great majority of the people hardly speak any English now, while also refusing to speak Mandarin. Little wonder that Hong Kong is quickly losing its edge to the pro-Chinese and highly cosmopolitan Singapore!
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• Here, prisoners were confined and executed, during British rule. Not far away from here, monstrous slums were housing deprived subjects of the queen. After the Brits left, those slums were converted to public parks.
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  Life in Hong Kong improved. Not as fast as in neighboring Shenzhen or Guangzhou, but it improved. The reason Hong Kong is being ‘left behind’ is because of its antiquated British-era laws, rules and regulations, its extreme capitalist system; because of “too little of Beijing”, not “because of too much of it.”
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  These hooligans are going against the interests of their own people, and their own people are now cursing them. Not loudly, yet, as rioters have clubs and metal bars, but cursing. Western media chooses not to hear these curses. But China knows. It hears. I hear Hong Kong people, too. Chinese curses are terrifying, powerful. And they do not dissolve in thin air.
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