5/23/2020

Hong Kong closing down, no more business as usual

'Article 23 of Hong Kong's mini-constitution, the Basic Law, says the city must enact national security laws to prohibit "treason, secession, sedition (and) subversion" against the Chinese government.
But the clause has never been implemented due to deeply held public fears it would curtail Hong Kong's cherished rights, such as freedom of expression.

Those liberties are unseen on the mainland and are protected by an agreement made before Britain handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997....

Pro-democracy leaders and activists warned that the move would mark "the end of Hong Kong", a fear voiced in months of massive and sometimes violent protests last year.

The US Congress late last year angered China by passing a law that would strip Hong Kong's preferential trading status in the United States if the urban hub is no longer considered autonomous from the mainland.'


The above was reported in the CNA. And the Hongkongers are going to march in protest. This time it is likely to be more violent as both sides have taken some times to reflect on the recent rioting against the criminal repatriation law. The stands are likely to be hardened, with the Hongkongers emboldened by the soft approach of the Hong Kong police while China must have worked out how much force they would need to quell the unrest.

What are the main issues? Freedom and democracy and the unspoken but most real issues of housing and a better life.  Freedom and democracy are not the real issues as put up to be. Other than crimes against the state, the Hongkongers have all the freedom and democracy they wanted, manifested by the widespread protest and violence on the streets and the hooligan behaviour in their parliament that is anything but democracy. Those behaviours are thuggish, boorish and uncivilised, not civil actions of a democracy but irresponsible expression of freedom.

The Hongkongers are likely to enjoy more and more freedom over time, even after the 50 years transition period is over. China would want a peaceful Hongkong with happy and prosperous Hongkongers than a violent, disruptive and unhappy populace. The issue of freedom and democracy would not be threatened as long as national security and sovereignty are not compromise, aka the Taiwan case. Any attempt to secede from China as a separate political entity under whatever pretences would be met with force and would turn very bloody and ugly. There is no way China would allow Hong Kong to be a separate state and be used as a thorn in the belly of China. Period.

The other more real and pressing issues are housing and a better life that the Hongkongers would like to have. These problems are due to overcrowding and density of population. No one can help the Hongkongers except China. Little states that think it is a clever idea to stuff as many people as they could in the name of fake economic growth would face this problem in graver consequences over time. The landlords would not help the Hongkongers by sharing their overly expensive land and housing. So what is left for the Hongkongers who want better and cheaper housing?

When Mao took over a broken down feudal China, the first thing he did was to execute all the landlords, acquire all their lands and redistributed to the people. This could not be done in the context of today's morality. Even if China were to acquire the lands from the landlords, there would still not be enough land to go around. The only workable solution is to build a few big cities in nearby China, connect them to Hong Kong with high speed trains and road network and sell them to Hongkongers at half the price of what they would have to pay in Hong Kong or cheaper. That would be a practical solution to the housing and quality of life problems facing the young Hongkongers.

With this on the platter, the Hongkongers can choose to stay, move into the cheaper and better housing provided by China or move out, migrate to become second class citizens of wherever that would welcome them. This is the only way out for the Hongkongers. Violent protests and cries for freedom and democracy or even and an independent state of their own is a dead end. The govt of Hong Kong and China should work out a long term solution for the Hongkongers quickly. The foolishness and madness of violent protests would not achieve anything other than more dead bodies on the streets, if that is what the Hongkongers want.

Hong Kong would forever be an intrinsic part of China, come what may, or be destroyed by the Hongkongers themselves and absorbed into China like any Chinese city with no special rights after the violence is over. The Hongkongers have a choice, a practical one that would give them a better life as a part of China if they are willing to talk sensibly and work towards a happy ending, or ruin their future in a mindless pursuit of heresy.

 "If China is so stupid as to believe that they can do away with Hong Kong and they don't need an international financial centre, then of course there's nothing which one could do to dissuade them to do otherwise,"  Dennis Kwok, a pro-democracy lawmaker in Hong Kong, told a US-based audience on Friday that the territory's opposition forces appreciated US efforts and urged continued vigilance, voicing fear for police crackdowns in the coming days. CNA

I would say this, if the Hongkongers are so stupid to believe that Hong Kong is indispensable as a financial centre to China, then they should go on and knock their heads against a wall. My view, the Hongkongers should not think too highly of themselves. China can lock down Hong Kong and the rest of China can continue life as normal. China would go to war with the Americans on Hong Kong and Taiwan. Would the US be prepared to go to war with China on these two territories of China? To China these are core national interests, to the Americans these are peripheral interests, good to have to stir shit without being hurt. No Americans would sacrifice their lives for the Hongkongers or Taiwanese. And this is not a limited war but would lead to nuclear destruction of both China and the USA.

PS. Sedition laws and laws against subversion and threats to national security are basic to every country. Even repatriation laws are common among states to punish criminals. Protest against such laws is lunacy, protesting for the sake of protesting or to create social unrest.

American and western support for Hong Kong is a pretence. They are using Hong Kong as a tool to destabilise China for political and strategic objective, nothing more, nothing less.

Idiotic Europeans or plain wicked bastards?

UNITED NATIONS: Britain, Germany, France, Estonia and Belgium raised North Korea's latest missile launches behind closed-doors in the United Nations Security Council on Thursday (Mar 5), condemning the tests as a provocative action in violation of UN resolutions.

North Korea fired two short-range missiles off the east coast into the sea on Monday, resuming testing after a three-month pause, South Korea's military said. The launch was the first since North Korea fired what it called "super-large multiple rocket launchers" on Nov 28.


In a time like this when the whole world is struggling to fight the deadly Covid19, these silly European bastard countries are attacking North Korea for testing short range missiles for the defence of their own country. What have the North Koreans got to do with the Europeans? Why no complaints when the Americans were testing more deadly weapons in the Pacific Ocean and in their home bases?

Would the North Koreans attack the European countries, can the North Koreans do that? Don't be silly. Just because you pretend to be silly, does not mean that the rest of the world is silly. The countries that have bad records of attacking other countries are the Europeans. The North Koreans have been the victims of foreign aggression, not for attacking another country.

Now shut the fuck up and go and do more productive work in trying to fight the Covid19 pandemic, started by the evil Americans. If you still stubbornly think and want to blame China for this, go visit https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.globalresearch.ca/us-cdc-director-admitted-virus-deaths-miscategorized-flu/5706233/amp and listen to the American confession.

Stop bullying the North Koreans and weak countries of the world. The Europeans are the aggressors and have more deadly weapons than the North Koreans. What God damn right should you be owning all the destructive weapons and not the North Koreans?

The killers and murderers of the people of the world are the Europeans and the Americans. And they are still killing the Arabs and Muslims daily, everyday.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the evilless of them all?

5/22/2020

A bird's eye view of new China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVjnASDa6Pw Xinjiang Autonomous Region
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y31kR6qmIcQ Hainan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG1JWhrFSH0&t=2s Heilongjiang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAXBUhB0u90 Shaanxi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry2AYnjojC8 Jiangxi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPdMOC0a3E4&t=240s  Shanghai

China is a developing country, albeit a very big one. Not too long ago, even now, many still have the impression that China is still a very poor country with poverty everywhere, slums, neglected old buildings about to fall into pieces and with poor Chinese peasants in green and grey Mao tunics and all with the hungry look of third world peasants.

China has produced a 6 part Bird's Eye view of China to show the new China that they have rebuilt over the last 40 years. When China embarked on this journey to transform itself into a modern industrial state, there were many records of how poor China was, how isolated, how remote the people were from the rest of the world. The peasants hardly see a car, a new hotel, restaurant, foreigners, unaware of the issues of the world like climate change, protecting the environment, protecting wildlife.  Their main concern was food and shelter, very primary and basic needs.

The 6 parts of this series show a China that the world has not seen, a very rich and well developed China, not just in economic development but about protecting their environment and wildlife all across the Chinese mainland. I thoroughly enjoyed a few quiet evenings watching these presentations about life, about living, in a mood of serenity and calm and peace. The narrative is in English by an American that spoke in a well measured tone and temperament that would bring the viewers to a world away from the stresses of a chaotic and unfriendly world. The series show what life is all about, living and enjoying the environment and the people, not wars, political bickering, threats, sanctions, regime change or hate and animosity. There are many aspects of life that are more meaningful and worth living for, beautiful and at peace with nature.

The series starts with a visit to Xinjiang Autonomous Region from the air, showing how beautiful and how well developed and choreographed, how much planning put in to turn the region into a paradise on earth. The subsequent parts spanned across China to Hainan Island, Heilongjiang, Shannxi, Jiangxi and concluding with Shanghai, the financial centre of new China and the world.

By the end of the series, I realised I was wrong to think that China was all about the eastern coastal region while the rest of China was still poor and underdeveloped, unplanned poverty and legacy of a past that is still living.  China has redeveloped and transformed the whole country to a modern and well developed state, organised and carefully planned. No more slums and dilapidated villages. The farmlands are a wonder to behold. It is a new China in every way.

Thanks to the CCP for reviving and rebuilding this ancient civilisation that is China today. Thanks to the CCP for driving away the foreign invaders and improve the lives of the Chinese people by leaps and bounds.  Thanks to the CCP that the Americans and the evil white men would not dare to take a hostile step into China, let a lone start a war with China.  Thanks to the CCP that the Chinese people are now scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, industrialists, billionaires etc etc and travelling the world with bags of money to throw around.

Maybe these are the reasons why the Americans and the whites are so angry with the CCP and badmouthing it everyday, trying to bring it down, instigating the Chinese to turn against the Party that brought prosperity and a better life to the Chinese people and generations to come, while the West wallowing in self pity and slipping into poverty and deprivation and bankruptcy for wasting their energy and resources and precious money in starting wars, fighting wars and building weapons and war machine.

America's multi-spectrum warfare against China to take down China and the Chinese people


     Urgent message and appeal to all proud Chinese people all over the world. Read this very important article and take it as your incumbent duty as a Chinese to forward the same article to all your worthy friends and relatives.

America, the Evil Empire has found itself unable to destroy China and the Chinese people through trade wars or military means unless it is prepared for mutual annihilation and extermination of mankind on earth in a total nuclear war with China. So the United States is now trying to take down China and the Chinese people through financial subterfuge.

Do not put your savings in any American banks like Citi Bank , Bank of America, Goldman Sachs or in British banks like Chartered Bank or Hong Kong And Shanghai Bank. Do not be tempted by their paying high interest on your savings or deposits in their banks.You will be entrapped and eventually you will lose everything both your capital outlay and the elusive insidious fake interest .

Be wise and smart . Avoid all American and British banks as they work in tight collusion to take down financially by subterfuge China and all Chinese people. Put all your savings and deposits in local banks for safety sake. Do not let them succeed in this highly evil sinister plot to destroy China and all Chinese people.

Be wary of the Five Eyes - USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand as they are one and the same Anglo-Saxon family which imposed the Opium Wars on China 1839 to 1860, the wars of which destroyed China and the Chinese people, causing over a hundred years of humiliation  in lost of  million square miles of Chinese lands  as well as causing extreme impoverishment , hardship and suffering to the Chinese people and nation due to their imposition of war indemnities on China of hundreds of millions of silver dollars which in today's terms will be worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Be proud and stand up against the Evil Empire , the United States. Preserve our self-respect and dignity and make sure we  Chinese people will never be humiliated again by America and the West.

Below is the main story which all Chinese must take it seriously and never forget.

"America knows well that China is not a third rate power like Iraq or Libya. The People's Liberation Army ( PLA ) has more than sufficient ICBMs, nuclear warheads, submarines, long distance bombers and hypersonic missiles to thwart any US attack and bury the invader in retaliation.

So Donald Trump and his gang of racist mongrels have now decided to start a subversive financial war campaign against China instead.

The same dirty tactics which the United States employed so successively to overthrow the former Soviet Union is now being deployed against China.

This is what I saw last Saturday at the British owned Standard Chartered Bank.

"USD  *Term Deposit *  Interest  3.68 %
RMB   *Term Deposit*   Interest  1.39%

Herein lies the angle behind this devious US tactic.

The whole scheme is designed to create subversion , havoc and ultimate bankruptcy to China's banking and financial system.

Let this be known . The jackal - the Apostle of the Devil - has arrived. America the Great Satan disguised as Citibank has stepped into the land of our Motherland - China.

The Bank from America has now started opening small and medium-sized loans as well as high interest bearing deposit accounts in China's large and medium - sized cities.

This financial scam being perpetrated by Citibank is not difficult to see through. It operates as follows:

Firstly, Citibank dangles a bait before your eyes with a "reward" of 50,000 Yuan . Secondly, you recommend a friend or a person to deposit 100,000 Yuan with them. The more you recommend, the higher will your "reward be".

Unfortunately the public is woefully unaware of Uncle Sam's cunning scheme. Moms and dads caught unaware are being deceived into thinking they have a "sure winner" on their hands. Folks everywhere can be seen rushing to withdraw from local banks to be used as deposits so as to partake in the supposely 'reputable American bank's "grand offer."  Sadly, the suckers are now swallowing the poisoned Yankee bait , hook, line and sinker!

History tells us that before the disintegration of USSR , it was also the same US Citibank that first arrived at the Soviet Union advertising deposit accounts with extraordinarily attractive interest rates. At that time, the generally trusting and unsuspecting folks of the old Soviet Union were not aware of this slick American banking scam. All they could see was the attractive and high-interest paying deposit rates.

The people withdrew and emptied all their savings accounts from their local banks and deposited them straight into Citibank from the US. All the Soviet banks were emptied overnight and the Soviet Union immediately lost their economic foundation.

What happened? Citibank of America suddenly showed its true colours. With the tacit encouragement of the US government , not only it refused to pay the Soviet people the promised interests, the Yanks flatly refused to recognize those accounts or honour their commitments to their Soviet customers. Instead, they promptly  raided the accounts and transferred all the funds to New York.

When the people woke up to Uncle Sam's con game, it was too late. The financial backbone of the USSR was broken by the United States. Soviet Union went broke and disintegrated . Till today, it remains split into 15 smaller states.

We must remember in our hearts. The painful lessons from the blood of the Soviet people must not be repeated in China . The Chinese people must be vigilant and work together to boycott Citibank and other foreign western banks. That way, the people of our nation will win this economic war without smoke.

Author :  A professor  , Sun Guilan  from  Tsinghua University.

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22nd May, 2020

Is there a good legal system?

Below is posted by SSO (aka Simply Say Only aka Say Say Only)  in one of his comments on 21 May.  SSO lamented that there is no perfect legal system in the world. I would like to say that there is an exception. There is one legal system in the world that is as near to perfection as there can be, nearly impeccable. And that is the Singapore Legal System. Singapore inherited this system from the British but has perfected it with some of the most brilliant minds in the world, from the judges, to the AG Office, and Law Ministry and the top legal counsels that have in their own expert ways contributed to this near perfect system. And this could be seen in some of the most brilliant arguments and judgements made by the courts and never ever been challenged or reversed.

And it is very expensive for sure, good has to be expensive right, as SSO has commented and thus not for the poor though it was supposed to serve and protect the poor and the meek. This point was noted and the Chief Justice has introduced some reforms to help the poor to have some justice if not they would not be able to do so as they could not afford to buy justice, oops, I mean they could not afford to pay dearly for expensive lawyers to defend them. This was about the only weakness in this perfect system but this hole has been plucked.  Poor people can also avail themselves of this perfect legal system, caveat, if they are really poor.  I think there is a definition on what is poor to qualify for this legal service.  I am poor and I know I would definitely not qualified for it.

See, my alternative truth good or not?  Ok, below is SSO's post.


Sad to say, in reality, in most countries, whether advanced or backward, the legal systems are like the Indonesian Wayang Kulit, skilfully controlled by unseen hands with invisible puppet-strings from the top of the curtain on the stage. With such a system, the commoners simply do not have a chance to win any contest. They either do not have the means to possess the same level of legal-muscle flexibility or, even if they have, will never win any case brought against them.

This is the legal system that man has devised and developed over time. The US legal system is one glaring example, followed very closely by the UK, most of the EU countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Even India, Pakistan, Israel, Russia, China, ASEAN countries, Latin American countries, Africa states and the Arab World are invariably similar.

Come to think of it, I simply can't think of any country in the world that has an impeccable and unblemished legal system!

Reason: No man is perfect; legal system is created by imperfect man and operated by imperfect men. So how can it be a perfectly just system? It bounds to have fakes and flaws, like any other system created by imperfect men. Even God made a Big mistake of creating Man!


Point 3:

The original good intention of law creation was to protect the poor against the rich. But in practice today, sad to say, it literally and legally protects the rich from the poor.

The original good intention of law enactment was to protect the lowly educated, meek, naive and innocent against the highly educated, cunning, smart and wilfully criminal. But in practice today, extremely sad to say, it craftily and silently protects the highly educated, the cunning, the smart and the wilfully criminal.

The original good intention of law enforcement was to protect the weak against the powerful. But in practice today, so sad to say, it vigorously protects the powerful against the weak. Just look at how many layers of physical, electronic and legal protecton that the most powerful man in the world is given day and night 24/7.+


Conclusion:

Every journey of human endeavors starts with good positive intention but the end is never the same as the beginning.

At the end of the day, the masses begin to realise that there may be only one set of laws in their respective country, however there are various deviations in practice, and that 99 out of 100 times, they will never stand a chance against the powerful, rich, cunning and highly educated.

Think.

SSO (aka Simply Say Only aka Say Say Only)