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Countdown to 2047: The Death of Hong Kong?

Hong Kong protests: tens of thousands defy mask ban as mobs go on rampage against mainland China-linked businesses and MTR
  • Masked mobs smash banks, stores and bookshops associated with mainland China and trash government buildings
  • Most MTR stations remain closed on Monday as rail operator says more time needed to repair damage

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Hong Kong mask ban defied for third day as mobs go on rampage

Masked mobs smash banks, stores and bookshops associated with mainland China, trash government buildings and start fires at the exits of several MTR stations as they continue their attack on railway operator.
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Morey trying to backtrack on earlier comments:

Houston Rockets’ Daryl Morey backtracks after ‘stand with Hong Kong’ backlash, saying he did not intend to offend China
  • Daryl Morey says he has now had the opportunity to ‘hear and consider other perspectives’ since his first tweet results in an exodus of Rockets’ sponsors
  • Morey tweets an image depicting ‘fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong’ before the Chinese Basketball Association ceases cooperation with the Rockets

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Morey backtracks on ‘stand with Hong Kong’ tweet after backlash

Daryl Morey says he has now had the opportunity to ‘hear and consider other perspectives’ since his first tweet results in an exodus of Rockets’ sponsors.
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NBA scrambles after China angered by Houston Rockets’ ‘regrettable’ pro-democracy tweet

The timing of this is particularly awkward for the NBA. China has teams in the US playing preseason games this week and fostering strong relationships with China has been a priority of the NBA for at least three decades.
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The NBA has a China office, just announced plans to add a gaming team in Shanghai to the NBA 2K League, and officials in both countries say as many as 500m Chinese watched at least one NBA game last season. Several NBA players, including major current and former stars like Stephen Curry and Kobe Bryant, go to China annually to promote their individual brands, and the World Cup held in China earlier this summer saw countless fans attending in NBA jerseys.

The Rockets, largely because of Yao, have an enormous Chinese following. But after Morey’s tweet, even the Chinese government’s consulate office in Houston issued a statement saying it “expressed strong dissatisfaction” with the team.
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NBA scrambles after China angered by Houston Rockets' 'regrettable' pro-democracy tweet

Houston’s general manager has tried to defuse the rapidly growing fallout over his deleted tweet that showed support for anti-government protesters
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Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai weighs in on Houston Rockets storm, saying for Chinese citizens, sovereignty is ‘non-negotiable’
  • The governor of one of the 30 NBA teams says, as a Chinese and having spent a good part of his professional life in China, he feels the need to speak up
  • Tsai says the hurt this incident has caused will take a long time to repair

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Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai weighs in on Houston Rockets storm

Tsai, the governor of one of the 30 NBA teams, says the hurt this incident has caused will take a long time to repair.
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Hong Kong fire officials worried protesters could follow online petrol bomb recipes with self-igniting material used in cluster bombs
  • Chemical ‘recipes’ on the internet could help anti-government protesters concoct more devastating weapons – but none found so far
  • Fire department responded to 319 fires between June 9 and October 1, with 37 incidents involving firebombs thrown by protesters

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‘More dangerous’ petrol bomb recipes online spark fire service warning

Self-igniting material is used in ammunition, hand grenades and cluster bombs – but so far none has been found in protesters’ weapons.
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AlbertC said:
Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai weighs in on Houston Rockets storm, saying for Chinese citizens, sovereignty is ‘non-negotiable’
  • The governor of one of the 30 NBA teams says, as a Chinese and having spent a good part of his professional life in China, he feels the need to speak up
  • Tsai says the hurt this incident has caused will take a long time to repair

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Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai weighs in on Houston Rockets storm

Tsai, the governor of one of the 30 NBA teams, says the hurt this incident has caused will take a long time to repair.
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Why are pushing this Pro-China propaganda?

It should be noted that the Nets owner has ties to Alibaba. He is in bed with the Chinese government.
 
narduch said:
Why are pushing this Pro-China propaganda?

It should be noted that the Nets owner has ties to Alibaba. He is in bed with the Chinese government.
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Also the Yao Ming-Rockets connection is worth mentioning
 
Hong Kong protests: economy lost an estimated HK$2.8 billion over ‘golden week’, experts say
  • Sectors such as retail, dining and hotels may have lost as much as HK$1.9 billion over three-day holiday weekend compared to last year
  • Expert also estimates MTR Corp lost around HK$500 million over the weekend, citing vandalism and loss of ticket revenue

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Hong Kong’s economy lost HK$2.8 billion in ‘golden week’, experts say

Sectors such as retail, dining and hotels may have lost as much as HK$1.9 billion over three-day holiday weekend compared to last year.
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An innocence lost: How Hong Kong fell from peaceful mass marches to intense violence, wanton destruction and a bitterly divided society
  • An estimated 1 million people marched peacefully on June 9, calling for the withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill
  • Four months on, the city has become familiar with the sight of trashed MTR stations and petrol bombs hitting the street, while more than 2,000 have been arrested

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Four months of Hong Kong protests: an innocence lost

An estimated 1 million people marched peacefully on June 9, calling for the withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill. Four months on, the city has become familiar with intense violence, wanton destruction and a bitterly divided society, while more than 2,000 people have been arrested.
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Vigilante violence prompts fears of widening polarisation in Hong Kong

By Nicola Smith Zoe Law, hong kong
8 OCTOBER 2019 • 4:54PM

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Vigilante violence prompts fears of widening polarisation in Hong Kong

Angry shouts and the splintering of glass ring out across the station platform as a gang of black-clad protesters smash the windows of a train travelling from Hong Kong to mainland China in the latest vigilante act by a hard-core fringe of the ongoing anti-government protests.
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AlbertC said:
An innocence lost: How Hong Kong fell from peaceful mass marches to intense violence, wanton destruction and a bitterly divided society
  • An estimated 1 million people marched peacefully on June 9, calling for the withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill
  • Four months on, the city has become familiar with the sight of trashed MTR stations and petrol bombs hitting the street, while more than 2,000 have been arrested

www.scmp.com

Four months of Hong Kong protests: an innocence lost

An estimated 1 million people marched peacefully on June 9, calling for the withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill. Four months on, the city has become familiar with intense violence, wanton destruction and a bitterly divided society, while more than 2,000 people have been arrested.
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It's been said before- the government has essentially disappeared and the police has become its main interface with the public. Whether this is due to governmental incompetence or Beijing interference remains to be known, but every single action taken by the government has only made the situtation worse (though combined with Beijing's absolutely hamfisted attempts at message control in the West, it has to be some combination of both).

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and her government have yet to produce a plan to quell the social unrest and get Hong Kong back to normal.

Lam went so far as to suspend the unpopular bill, but it took three months before she finally gave in and announced that it would be formally withdrawn. Protesters responded with a new rallying call: “Five demands, not one less."
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The Umbrella Protest in 2014 gave the protesters a precedent that peaceful protest accomplished nothing; and Lam's caving in on the extradition law after violent protests encouraged them as well. On top of that, police brutality has been a focus of attention of some of these protests, and has morphed into a quasi-Sixth demand over the last month or two, especially after several MTR incidents. Furthermore, rumors of PLA supplentation of the police, and police infiltration into protester ranks allows some deflection off of their actions, as violent acts can be fobbed onto the police as potential false-flag activity:

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Hong Kong police under fire after officer dressed as protester threatens residents from inside closed MTR station | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

Hong Kong police have confirmed that there were plainclothes officers at Sheung Shui MTR station carrying out an investigation on Tuesday. It came after viral videos showed a man dressed as a masked protester threatening residents outside the closed station. The clips raised eyebrows with some...
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Ultimately, as people perceive justice as being unfulfilled, they turn to their own forms of 'justice', which may be more physical and violent in nature as they see that as their only avenues of retribution/methods of attention.
Since the end of last month, some protesters have raised what they call the sixth demand – the disbandment of the Hong Kong police force.

Stephen Chiu Wing-kai, chair professor of sociology at the Education University, said it was unfortunate that the police had been used by the government to tackle political and governance issues.
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