China Is Waging a Disinformation War Against Hong Kong Protesters
Right now, that makes it a kind of latter day Cold War between the dictatorship of the Communist Party on the one side and the protesters on the other.
With the local government of Hong Kong a weak player in the middle
What do they want, these protesters?
What did the protesters of Tiananmen want?
The Revolution of 1848 in China.
The French Revolution - or any one of several - in China.
Think of that, but scaled back to cover only Hong Kong.
For now.
It is a direct challenge to the party's exclusive hold on power.
What a provocation it must be to Chicom nationalist eyes to see in the Times a photo of a gray-haired protester in the street waving the Union Jack, the banner of the former Western, white, racist, European colonial power, or demonstrators rushing around the Hong Kong airport, a youth among them waving the Stars and Stripes, as viewers of CNN saw this morning.
The talking heads of mainstream American cable news, all in varying degrees conscious or unconscious Children of Zinn, are accustomed to demonstrators burning the US flag and interviewees and guests who revile it as a symbol of slavery, genocide, misogyny, homophobia, Christianism - or indeed, simply Christianity - and racism.
They hear and repeat, day after day, that it is the banner of an evil regime of white males that is only a recent outpost of a larger evil white thing of millenia, Western Civilization.
They must have to try hard not to gag, reporting on a courageous democracy movement of nonwhites for whom the Stars and Stripes - and the colonialist Union Jack! Colonialism! What, better a Brit colony than one of the last Red Empire in Beijing? - are symbols of exactly the free society and government they want.
Meanwhile, the Beijing tyrants, relying on the Great Firewall of China to make easier their task, are incensing nationalist sentiment against the demonstrators with dangerous success, portraying them as criminals and terrorists manipulated and funded by foreigners and particularly the CIA.
The clashes have been off and on, and more on than off, since early this year.
The government clearly is in no hurry to send in the tanks and would prefer to wait it out.
And that could work, given enough patience.
Chaos Grips Hong Kong’s Airport as Police Clash with Protesters
And this inane remark by the moron in the White House is both hilarious and disgraceful, exactly as you would expect.
We are so going to get another four years of this orange jackass.
Trump on Hong Kong protests: 'It's a tough situation … but I'm sure it'll work out'
“We’ll what see what happens,” Trump said before boarding Air Force One for an event in Pennsylvania.
“But I’m sure it’ll work out. I hope it works out for everybody, including China, by the way.”
UK should give British nationality to Hong Kong citizens, Tugendhat says
What, does he think they want to be airlifted to East Anglia?
Trump isn't the only moron.
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