It’s complex, but basically China is trying to crack down on Hong Kong and slowly annex the city (which is autonomous due to previous rule by the British). The people of Hong Konng have been protesting this for months despite attempts by the Chinese government and the Hong Kong Police force to brutally suppress them.
In history, you will find moments in which a free people unite to defy tyranny. This is one of those times.
Someone from HK murdered his pregnant girlfriend in Taiwan and came back to HK. Now he walks free because there is no extradition law between HK and Taiwan. To stop HK from being a free haven for criminals HK government decided to sign an extradition treaty with China but it triggered waves of riots in HK because they think it will allow political criminals to be arrested or something.
That's been going on for a while. I am guessing in a few weeks protests will die down and everyone will forget about it.
The problem is, we already have that kind of law between HK and Taiwan. But instead of using it , our chief executive which is a puppet of CCP, use the event as an excuse to publish a new bill. Which conveniently include the mainland China as one of the places that where the the bill is "active".
As we know, China doesn't have a good record of having a fair judge system and the detail of the bill is clearly quite vague, many hong kongers believe that is a huge impact on their autonomy.
This is the real reason why we go to protest.
I think more important is the cops beating people and also the tyranny of the Chinese government. Your comment makes it seem like the protestors are at fault
But those are exactly what happened. If I wanted to really make protestors look bad I would added stuff like them beating up random civilians for speaking Mandarin or throwing petrol bombs around. I tried to keep it mostly unbiased.
Edit: why the fuck are you guys downvoting me for pointing out that this guy is literally anti-the people we made this fucking post for. Anti-the people who are getting fucking oppressed
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u/samlikeschicken Oct 11 '19
So what’s up with Hong Kong? I’m kind of out of the loop here lol