Hong Kong

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Michael Yon, via Instapundit;

Yesterday’s protest was massive. I have not even slept yet. Estimated 1.7m people. Crowds are notoriously difficult to estimate, but I will confirm it was absolutely massive, stretching for miles in pouring rain. Massive.
 
Hong Kong is China’s brain tumor. Do nothing…tumor grows. Operate…the procedure could kill the communist party.
 
This is very serious, Gentlemen. Do not underestimate what is happening here.

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15 Replies to “Hong Kong”

  2. The communist government will soon excise this tumor and it may kill something but it will not be the communist party.

  3. Hong Kong is one of the big three world finance and banking centers. What drives modern finance and banking? Communications. International Communications.

    What is the first thing China will do when they invade? Shut off communications. They won’t want the world to see the bloodshed. But then they kill Hong Kong Banking. They kill the Hong Kong Stock Exchanges.

    They kill the goose and they don’t even get the eggs.

    1. Communications and the freedom to move capital in and out of the country. The only way this will end on a positive note is if Beijing backs off until 2047 when it will then have the right to implement its communist system.

  4. If anything can drive the world into recession and depression, it will be a collapse of China. Damned near every supply chain goes through China. Autos, Appliances, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Goods, Everything.

    The world will survive. Millions of people won’t.

  6. I was in Shanghai many years ago taking a river cruise on the Po. I struck up a conversation with a Chinese fellow who gestured towards a group of fellow Chinese and said to me “they don’t like me much because I come from Bejing”. He elaborated by saying that this group of people were from Shanghai and that they have always thought they were better than other Chinese.

    Clearly what is happening in Hong Kong has huge ramifications if it is also happening in Mainland China or if it has quiet approval by most Chinese. For the same reasons that the CCP has received a lot of credit for the rise of living standards over the past 20 years the tables can turn and they could be blamed for the current trade dispute with the USA. Most revolutions that have occurred in China have started in the south.

    If POTUS Trump can keep the pressure on China he will win. The popular perception is that the Chinese will wait out a settlement until the 2020 USA election. Since the DEM’s are just as hardline on views of China I would suspect the Chinese will craft a deal with Trump. Trump has the upperhand and knows it. A trade deal with China gets him re-elected!

    1. “Since the DEM’s are just as hardline on views of China”

      BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Snort! Guffaw! ROFL!

      The Dems will resume whoring America out to China for pennies on the dollar the MOMENT they retake effective control of the country. If they retake the WH in 2020, everything Trump has done will be undone in a flash. Tariffs? Gone. Trade deals where China bends America over? Back in full force. Gutting of American jobs to exploit cheap Chinese labour? Resume full speed. Mass imports of cheap Chinese garbage? More and more tankers into ports. Record profits for the Wall Street whores who enable all this despicable behaviour? You betcha.

      Make no mistake, the professional Republicans would love to resume the whoring out as well. It’s Trump and ONLY Trump who stands against China. For that reason alone, we must all pray he wins reelection, because four more years of his pressure against China just might – might – be enough to cement America’s gains at China’s expense.

  7. By “repatriating” Hong Kong in 1999, the Chinese regime may have swallowed a poison pill.

    But I suspect they are not going to risk the poison spreading. My guess is that they are going to come down hard, as un leçon pour les autres. No Tiananmen Square 2.0.

  9. I was in HK twice. in 89 and 07.
    my harsh opinion of ‘the chirese’ does NOT apply to the citoyens of the former colony.
    they collectively know something we dont.
    we need to watch events very closely.
    the Yon quote is spot on. the sit’n has the potential to cause the entire fabrication aka ccp to come crashing down.
    ye olde ‘damned if ya do damend if ya dont’. good !!!
    and THAT is why the tanks haven’t shown up. yet.
    where else in the WORLD have we seen protests this big for this long?
    this is exceptionally unique. they have to keep a rein on the vandals to rob beijing of any excuses.

  10. Chinese leadership’s view. Hong Kong makes money. Good. Hong Kong embraces democracy. Bad, real bad.
    This is very unfortunate for China’s trade negotiators, given HK protesters have handed Trump a be nice stick.
    Imho, China doesn’t really want to rein in HK unless absolutely necessary to save their influence in their other colonies.
    How ironic is it to see recalcitrant US politicians showing more loyalty to Hezbollah than their nation while the US flag flies in HK.

  12. China has 1,418,832,231 reasons why they will stomp the demonstrators in Hong Kong & nothing will result except they will then be more agreeable to a US trade deal….They are Communist & that is how they MUST control the Flock…. Is Gore or Soros in Hong Kong?

  13. The CCP spin on this is all most Chinese people see, including ones not actually stuck behind the Great Firewall. It’s all about terrorists and malcontents, and there will be no internal upheaval as a result (I might be more optimistic about HK’s chances of success, were it not for the apparent and ample evidence that the triads are on the CCP’s side in this). When the time is right, the 12,000 (that they admit to) armed “police” they have staging in Shenzhen will move in, and that will be that. It will be more important for Beijing to lock the gates than to keep the money flowing…which is all electronic at this point anyway: what isn’t they can print or steal from HK. Anyone not ready to get their algos sorted before that happens is gonna get hugely burned. The economic fallout might be massive on global markets, but the effect is not going to be huge inside China in the short term: it won’t be allowed to be. The average person will barely notice a ripple, unless they’re heavily using foreign-sourced products. My 2 cents’ worth.

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