hong kong issues

It's all going off in Hong Kong. I can't find a thread about it. Anyway, here's a journalist being supplied with essential protest kit by those that came better prepared: https://preview.redd.it/8cl1whsq13431.gif?format=mp4&612e525d Is it too much of a stretch to remember 1989 at this time?

http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/2511_665403/t1474637.shtml So how will the British Government handle this? It's clear as day now that the Chinese have been slowly but surely chipping away at the freedom and autonomy that Hong-Kong is supposed to have according to the...

It will be interesting to see how this develops. Seems to be about how Beijing hand-picks candidates which the people may then vote for. Of course, that's not any kind of real democracy. Not much better than "democracy" in Iran, where the eligible candidates are pre-approved by some body of...