While protesters in Hong Kong are still taking to the streets to announce their displeasure with China’s recent actions to try and implement new laws over Hong Kong such as extradition measures, their theme to honor the United States continues. Yesterday protesters were reported to have taken the day off from protesting to honor the victims from the New York attacks on 9-11-2001. As reported in the video by China Global News Network: Hong Kong has been rocked by months of ‘sometimes violent’ unrest. See the video below:
As reported by The Blaze, the Chinese government claimed that the Hong Kong protesters were planning an ‘attack’ instead, yesterday.
Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have announced that they are suspending protests on Sept. 11 to honor the Americans who died that day.
Since Hong Kong was returned to China by the United Kingdom in 1997, it has seen some of its freedoms slowly chipped away. China had promised to utilize a “one country, two systems” model of governance for Hong Kong for at least the first 50 years, in order to ease the transition, but has periodically put laws in place to bring Hong Kong more into line with Chinese rule.
The protests began in early August when the Chinese-backed government of Hong Kong tried to pass a bill that would allow citizens of Hong Kong to be extradited to the mainland. Although the government has since backed off of this plan, the protests have continued in an attempt to convince the government to agree to more democratic reforms.
In a Facebook post on Sept. 9, the Chinese propaganda paper China Daily had accused the protesters, whom it labeled “anti-government fanatics,” of “planning massive terror attacks, including blowing up gas pipes, in Hong Kong on September 11.”
The Facebook post read in full:
“Anti-government fanatics are planning massive terror attacks, including blowing up gas pipes, in Hong Kong on September 11.
The 9/11 terror plot also encourages indiscriminate attacks on non-native speakers of Catonese, and starting mountain fires.
The leaked information was part of the strategy being schemed by radical protesters in their online chat rooms.”
See the Facebook post from China Daily Hong Kong below:
Messages reshared by some political groups on social media including ‘Student Localism’ had this image to promote the day of peace or suspension of protests. See image below:
It is likely that Hong Kong protesters are hoping that in the quest for more freedoms from China, the United States will take sympathy and get involved somehow, as with many other wars around the world. It is unlikely, however, that the United States government, will, in fact, take up any involvement whatsoever with China for this particular situation, especially considering the ongoing U.S.-China trade war. Still though, it’s a wonderful thing as an American to see the U.S. being lauded around the world as a country that is looked up to and viewed as a symbol of patriotism and freedom.
