China - new no 1 in making

[TheBrahmabull]

Massive antigovernment protests were staged across Hong Kong for the tenth straight week Sunday as citizens demanded their leaders listen to their concerns about mainland China’s influence in Hong Kong politics.

For weeks, tens of thousands — and once, nearly 2 million — Hongkongers have taken to the streets, first to force their government to end discussion of a controversial extradition bill, and later, once city leaders shelved that bill, to demand the city’s chief executive resign and apologize for what protesters say has been an overly violent police response to mostly peaceful demonstrations.

Increasingly, protesters also want their local government to address Beijing’s growing influence in Hong Kong politics, arguing that the city was guaranteed a level of independence during its handover to China from Britain, and that that guarantee is not being respected.

The 10th weekend of protests began on Saturday when groups of protesters made their way through the city; another group continued a sit-in at Hong Kong’s airport. Saturday night, the demonstrations intensified as protesters set fires outside a police station; a night of clashes with police followed.

Sunday’s protest began peacefully in a park; protesters refused to follow a police-sanctioned route, although they mostly steered clear of a traditionally pro-Communist neighborhood home to immigrants from Fujian, a Chinese province, where white-clad attackers beset protesters during a strike Monday. Scuffles did break out there Sunday after the protests as journalists were attacked by unknown men; police reportedly apprehended some of the attackers.

When the main protest ended, demonstrators began taking unauthorized paths through the city Sunday evening, in part in order to evade arrest.

“We no longer demonstrate based on a schedule, which I think works well,” one protester, Dominic Chan, told the New York Times. “We spread to different places, because every arrest means one less protester in the field.”

Police attempted to control the crowd using tear gas, rubber bullets, and arrests; protesters responded by throwing tear gas canisters back at police, and two gasoline bombs were also reportedly thrown at officers. Police claimed demonstrators were using laser pointers offensively against them, and in one neighborhood, officers tackled a protester to the ground, saying they had been throwing bricks at them.

Tensions between police and protesters escalated as the night went on; lawmaker Ted Hui told the Hong Kong Free Press citizens not involved in the protests were also upset with officers, accusing them of arresting innocent bystanders. Bystanders were also affected at train stations — officers clashed with protesters late Saturday night at one station in an altercation that reportedly saw a demonstrator beaten by police as he fell down an escalator; rubber bullets were reportedly used inside a second station; and in an earlier incident, officers used tear gas inside a station, incapacitating protester and bystander alike.

[TheBrahmabull]

no one raising an issue with whats going on with Hong Kong.. Not even US ?

[dasara_bullodu]

8 minutes ago, TheBrahmabull said:

no one raising an issue with whats going on with Hong Kong.. Not even US ?

US has become like a spoilt rich kid

[JohnSnow]

9 minutes ago, TheBrahmabull said:

no one raising an issue with whats going on with Hong Kong.. Not even US ?

China can never be no-1 as long as they have communism ruling the country. 

[JohnSnow]

Just now, dasara_bullodu said:

US has become like a spoilt rich kid

Spoiled fat kid (It is obese with its own issues)

[NenuEvaru]

Military and Money rules for any country in future.