Sorry, but these bills are both pretty fucking toothless, calling on “the State department to report…the President to report…the Commerce department to report”. Feh.
Both the Trump administration, and all the Democratic candidates, can see as clearly as I can what is happening to HK and to the Uighurs right now. If they claim ignorance I will be happy to “report” the information to them.
The question is, are they going to do anything about it, or just send up some thoughts and prayers?
Yeah, like I said, not sure how much they might help. If you have any other suggestions, I’d be happy to hear them.
The coward knife attack from Chinese mainlander did not even make the front page of the news.
But, all changed when a student was killed by the police and died over the week end.
The following Monday, a policeman open fire in front of a protester with empty hands. 2 mn later, they move his body in a very dangerous way to even try to kill him on the spot.
Sure, this started more violence, especially in the student community.
The CE did not condemn any of these.
The police have been caught hiring thugs to fight the population without discrimination once, and just did again yesterday. Passerby just get hit with no reason, one girl almost got kidnapped in the middle of the street.
No police was there, of course.
But at the same time, they “escort” with free ferry ride the mainland student back to their home.
So, when the Beijing backed team tried to fight the youngster; a stone hit one old guy and he died today.
Too many blood already on HK CE hands for no reason.
Btw, most of police officers do not wear their ID tag, (officialy cause the uniform do not have room for it) so there is no way to identify their misconduct.
Well, yes and no.
Anything to keep the media pressure is already a step in the right direction.
Loosing face is the name of the game.
This bills can only bring attention to the situation.
Just noting that Roger Hallum’s theory of change for XR – for which he’s been criticized recently – that a sufficiently-obnoxious resistance will trigger police overreaction and violence, feeding back into popular sympathy and support for the resistance – appears to be working in Hong Kong.
Too bad Hong Kong isn’t an isolated entity, and instead is part of a larger system which doesn’t give a damn what the populace wants.
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