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Group behind Hong Kong's Tiananmen vigil denies foreign ties

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By HUIZHONG WU and KATIE TAM

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They're now making it mandatory for schools, including international ones, to have raising-the-flag ceremonies. It's getting more and more like America.

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Sadly, Hong Kong is a gonner. It's not just political - its unique Cantonese-influenced culture will be extinguished.

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Typical China...Chinese memorializing Chinese killed by the CCP are representing "foreign" interests"

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Group behind Hong Kong's Tiananmen vigil denies foreign ties

No problem. After enough "persuation" in prison, the CCP police will have admit "foreign ties".

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The only way for liberation,is through confrontation,exploit the Chinese government insecurities

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Bradley,why is your lodgers,not will to take premptive action China , before they invade

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They're now making it mandatory for schools, including international ones, to have raising-the-flag ceremonies. It's getting more and more like America.

Right?

It's probably why Americans are leaving the country in droves and immigrants want nothing to do with her.

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The SCMP's version of this article, from earlier today:

Police have warned the organiser of Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil of consequences under the national security law after the opposition group openly rejected their demand that it hand over information about its membership, operations and finances.

National security police issued a sternly worded statement in response, saying they were aware of “a group stating openly that it would not comply with the request as the law requires”. Failure to comply could result in a fine of up to HK$100,000 (US$12,840) and six months behind bars, the statement warned, adding that those who provided “false, incorrect or incomplete” information faced the same fine and a jail term of up to two years. “Police will take follow-up action in accordance with the law,” a spokesman said.

The Security Bureau issued a separate “solemn warning” about the seriousness of the crime of endangering national security. “The damage is serious. Action must be taken to prevent and suppress the act,” a spokesman said. “To avoid bearing the legal risk, the organisation concerned should immediately turn back before it is too late.”

Beijing’s liaison office in the city accused the alliance of having “no fear of the law”. “Since the day it was founded, the alliance included subverting state power and overthrowing the Communist Party’s rule as its political goals. In the name of democracy, it has opposed China and caused trouble in Hong Kong,” a spokesman said. “It didn’t show any remorse for what it did in the past, and chose to resist and refuse the police’s demand for information.”

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3147622/national-security-law-hong-kong-group-behind-annual

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But, then again, thanks to the GT, we finally have the CCP's explanation for the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989: A 5 June 2021 document entitled “CPC Emerges Stronger, Firmer to Original Aspirations through the Haze of the 1980s.”

My favorite:

Because of the Cultural Revolution, China's development fell behind most other countries of the world. When some Chinese people, officials and intellectuals, engaged with the world and saw the advancement and prosperity of the West through travelling abroad, listening to VOA news, watching Hollywood movies and drinking Coca Cola, they felt shocked, and lost the confidence to keep going on the path of socialism, said some analysts.

Then they threw Russia under the bus:

If the CPC made the mistake and compromised, China might have had civil wars as well, just like the Chechen War in Russia, or might have been attacked by the West, like what NATO did to former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, or China's state-owned properties and resources might have been privatized, and Western capitalists would have plundered the prosperity of our people like what the West did to Eastern and Central European countries after the Cold War," he said.

However, not every communist party is qualified to be the choice of the people. The Soviet Union was also trying to push reform, as Mikhail Gorbachev, then leader of Soviet Union, proposed "new political thinking" to kick off his reform.

Some people in China at that time also believed the so-called "new thinking" was more correct than the CPC's opening-up and reform because it looked more Westernized. But later the facts proved that Gorbachev failed and Deng was right. Some experts said Gorbachev's reform was like a "political suicide" for the Soviet Union, and it was just like a gift for the West since the red giant just killed itself and quit the Cold War, then the West declared victory at almost no cost.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1225405.shtml .

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Tankman had his day in history caught on film forever.

So this is why the CCP distrust the Western media because at anytime there are protests and uprisings in China there's a possibility of another Tankman.

HongKongers really need to leave by any means necessary. China has taken over and it's never going to stop unless the police and politicians fight back. They caved and are actively enforcing CCP rule.

Some revolutions need to happen. Afghans needed to rise up and stop the Taliban but caved in 7 days after 20 years of USA training. If people don't want to save their own country there's really nothing you can do for them. Sadly this came true. They should have trained women fighters instead.

HK needs to rise up and kick out the CCP. Tryanny cannot be reasoned with.

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A staunch refusal to accept reality can end badly.

HK is Chinese now. Any form of dissent will get you on a list and they will eventually come for you.

It's over. The lady with cupcake issues has sung. The final credits have rolled.

Unlike in movies and novels, in real life, the bad guys usually win. As in Myanmar and Afghanistan, so in Hong Kong.

Escape whilst you still can. Once they nick you, regardless of the charge, you may not be able to get on a plane.

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sf2k

HK needs to rise up and kick out the CCP. Tryanny cannot be reasoned with.

Good luck with that. Ever looked at the respective population sizes?

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