Mainstream Media Creates Another Dooms Day About China

SHUT DOWN! CRIPPLED!! STRUGGLE…the Mainstream media doom machine is in overload as Protesters in China resume their protest of extradition laws from February 2019. The Media is buzzing about “The Economy” and ” Terrorism” as lines of Chinese military personnel carriers and fleets of other military vehicles move to within 25 km of Hong Kong.

Our Intelligence has informed us that the Chinese Government is moving troops to the Border with Hong Kong. Everyone should be calm and safe! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2019

Behind the headlines, the reason for the upheaval and protests is an easy to understand principle.

Freedom in Hong Kong

Yes, in Hong Kong. Freedom lives!

“After taking over Hong Kong in a war in the 1800s, Britain returned it to China in 1997 with an important stipulation: The city would partly govern itself for 50 years before fully falling under Beijing’s control. So until 2047, the expectation was that the city and the mainland would operate under the principle known as “one country, two systems.”

The agreement reached between China and The United Kingdom is codified in the Joint Declaration of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as the Government of the People’s Republic of China on the Question of Hong Kong.

The recent protests have been triggered by Hong Kong government working to enact legislation arising from a love story, gone wrong.

Valentine’s Day 2018

Chan Tong-kai and his girlfriend, Poon Hui-wing traveled on a vacation to the island of Taiwan. Chan returned to Hong Kong about a week later, alone. Later he confessed to Police that he had strangled his “pregnant” girlfriend and stuffed her body into a suitcase and abandoned it in a thicket near a subway station in Taipei. At this time there were no extradition laws between Hong Kong and Taiwan.

February 2019

Hong Kong government cited Chan Tong-kai’s case to propose extradition legislation (retroactive (to 1997) with Taiwan and China. Taiwan and China were not included in the initial agreements in the Joint Declaration as their criminal justice systems are “fundamentally different.”

While answering to justice for Poon Hui-wing, this proposed retroactive legislation was received by the Hong Kongers as a “Trojan Horse” that opened political dissidents to extradition by China. Rekindling pro-democracy activism among Hong Kongers, many of whom do not identify with China.

In 28 years, many Hong Kongers will never have lived in Communism.

Standing for Freedom

It may have appeared out of place for protesters to carry the Flag of the United States of America and sing the Star-Spangled Banner in Hong Kong, but our shared freedoms are in the phrasing of the Joint Declaration. Paragraph 3. (5) may have been drafted from the Constitution of the United States of America.

In Hong Kong, the American flag and anthem stand to rally protesters and huddled masses with a heart to be free.