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'The end of Hong Kong': Experts say China's push to pass strict national security laws further erodes the city's autonomy.
On Friday, China began to move forward with controversial national security laws for Hong Kong.
Chinese authorities have not yet released the full details of the proposal, though it will likely outlaw the promotion of secession, subversion and foreign interference.
It was a mistake to believe China would ever seriously liberalize. I bought it too, but now it's more clear than ever we're heading into the next phase of the Cold War.
'The end of Hong Kong': Experts say China's push to pass strict national security laws further erodes the city's autonomy.
On Friday, China began to move forward with controversial national security laws for Hong Kong.
Chinese authorities have not yet released the full details of the proposal, though it will likely outlaw the promotion of secession, subversion and foreign interference.
Anywhere in the world where these things are legal?
Hong kong between 1997 and 2020.
But instead of beeing happy for the freedoms they got and promote their city, they instead decided to complain about everything and trying to force Chinas hand with violent protests.
They hoped that by involving China they would get more independence, but of course the opposite happen as China is not going to have a rebel province inside its borders.
It was a mistake to believe China would ever seriously liberalize. I bought it too, but now it's more clear than ever we're heading into the next phase of the Cold War.
China will never be a free market under the CCP.
The people of China are starting to realize they've been lied to about economic growth, that GDP figures have been fabricated. They've seen the massive corruption during COVID 19. The CCP has been paralyzed by these crises and can no longer deliver solid economic growth, or even continue faking it. So the CCP might as well be ever more brazen and aggressive with sabotaging Hong Kong and ruining their own economy. The secret is out to the Chinese people that the CCP is corrupt and incompetent, so the CCP might as well act ever more shamelessly.
The people of China are starting to realize they've been lied to about economic growth, that GDP figures have been fabricated. They've seen the massive corruption during COVID 19. The CCP has been paralyzed by these crises and can no longer deliver solid economic growth, or even continue faking it. So the CCP might as well be ever more brazen and aggressive with sabotaging Hong Kong and ruining their own economy. The secret is out to the Chinese people that the CCP is corrupt and incompetent, so the CCP might as well act ever more shamelessly.
Most western countries are not free market either. Countries like France and Italy are characterized by a lot of government regulation, work regulation and protectionism. US was earlier a free market economy, but has been gradually abandoning it in the last 20 years.
The average Chinese only care about their own living standards, not the GDP number. And the mistakes CCP did in the beginning is overshadowed by the mistakes the western world did in February and March. You might not believe that Chinas urban unemployment only increased by 1% while US unemployment increased by 10% - 15%, or that China got 85000 cases while US got 1.7 million cases. But the claims that China lied massively do not match what people are seeing on the ground in China. People still have jobs and hardly anyone knows anyone that got infected.
If western countries want to convince Chinese to criticize their government, then their narrative needs to better match what people in China experience. If not, Chinese will just assume that western media lies all the time. In fact Chinese are more pro-ccp now than they were before covid-19, because they blame the first coverup on the authorities in Hubei and they think it was handled well by the authorities after the first coverup. So do not get hopes up.
Last edited by Camlon; 05-25-2020 at 10:01 PM..
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