7 years ago, 1 million protested against the extradition bill. That’s beginning of the anti-extractions bill in Hong Kong. The world also witness the true nature of #China.
七年前嘅今日,一百萬人喺香港開始對抗暴政。設置一個世界亦都開始見到中共嘅真面目。
#HKProtest#2019反送中
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On this day 7 years ago, >1 million marched in #HongKong against a gov't plan to allow extradition to China, setting off mass protests that lasted 8mo--one of the largest, longest protest movements in modern history. The regime's response: severe repression that's still ongoing.
I've come across posts like this many, many times – praising China's safety while denouncing democracies that spend too much time debating "freedoms."
I get it. I don't want to live somewhere I have to watch my surroundings constantly.
But safety isn't the price you pay for freedom. Taiwan, Japan, and Korea are among the safest places. You can walk the streets at 2 a.m without a second thought, and none of them required a surveillance state to get there. Culture, state capacity, and enforcement all shape this, no single model owns it.
China's version comes down to a tyrannical policing and surveillance apparatus that makes the personal cost of committing even petty crime extraordinarily high. But that same apparatus is also the one that disappears the lawyer, the journalist, the dissident.
Europe may have a problem, but China is not the answer to it. Hinting that the problem is having too much “freedom debate” is such a bad take.
The Hong Kong government has officially gazetted the subsidiary legislation to allow the Chief Executive to certify normal criminal acts as a national security case, with the law coming into effect immediately.