Hong Kong Protests

Not sure what part you think is a false flag. Hong Kong has a history of protests against China. That would basically have been HK government admitting that Chinese law supersedes HK law.Could you imagine the UK passing a law that Brussels has jurisdiction over UK citizens? The brexiters would go absolutely nuts. HK has a history of resisting Chinese attempts to impose One China on them.

This conversation is about Hong Kong. Not sure why you are trying to deflect from the things that are going on there.

The threat of HK is that the mainlanders might start wanting some democracy for themselves.In a way China made a mistake asking for HK back. While it was British they had a convenient boogeyman to point to, now it is part of China, Beijing has nowhere to hide, and the only option they have is to destroy it. This will be a painful process for both Beijing and HK.

The article looks like some manipulation. These people protest against the extradition act between Honk Kong and China. After this Honk Kong will lose some part of autonomy.It is not pro-democracy manifestation. West journalists are a democracy fanatics :/ Can some Chinese write what is really going on in Hong Kong?Additionally, I have not seen this kind of worried articles about France protest and president Macron :/Last but not least, I am sad that no one in my country and o

Hong Kong was a lost cause to begin with. With China having full sovereignity over Hong Kong and the Sino-British Joint Declaration being useless (not enforceable in practice and not even violated, at least on paper), the West could do little more about Hong Kong than about Xinjiang or Tibet.

The Hong Kong episode might not upset people in PRC as they are being brought under same laws as people in PRC. Top entrepreneurs/researchers/engineers can buy HK activists being malicious or they can be just indifferent to them as that is not their problem.But this will be as this is a lot more relatable.Also, the value of HK for PRC has reduced over time so PRC could afford to do it now.

Isn't that up to the people of HK?

Found these posts from Inkstone helpful:https://www.inkstonenews.com/politics/hong-kongs-extradition...https:/

> Because of how they treated Hong Kong. Taiwan, too.

I thought we could have mature discussions on HN. I was wrong.The current situation made some sense when HK was a colony of the British: The Brits made the law and did not cooperate too much with "the reds".But now, as someone looking at it from abroad, it makes no sense at all.This is not about "foresight" or anything like that. It does not help someone's cause to downvote comments and to refuse to discuss on facts, and to riot. In fact it make people look like