I guess it's got to get worse before it gets better. Cheap words I know.
Right now, I assume most Americans wish to do for America before messing with yet another foreign problem elsewhere.
That is not to say that your analysis & discussion are not important, because it is in light of the quick-paced changes abruptly taking shape & hold upon the planet, elsewhere & here in the USA.
It's reasonable to lend assistance, even if only rhetorical (if true in both fact & heart) to another country, struggling for its freedom.
I think there are more elements involved, than political, in all this, but one would have to venture to the sci-fi channel for such conjecture.
Truth is stranger than fiction, they use to say, way back when.
Anyway. Thank You for the perspective at work in HK.
Great article, thank you! I had the privilege of living and working in Hong Kong back in 2016-2017, and still keep in touch with a lot of Hong Kongers today. Before I had lived there, I went on a work trip in 2014 to both Hong Kong and Shanghai, and as a "naive" Westerner, I didn't realize how very very different the cultures are between Hong Kong and mainland China. To be clear, everyone I met in both places were really fantastic people, but the people in mainland China always seemed a bit sad to me, one woman only wanted to talk to me about my (large) family, and lamented about not having any brothers or sisters. Another was only concerned that I liked China better than Hong Kong. In contrast, my friends from Hong Kong embraced being different, everything from style to sense of humor, unlike the forced homogeneity of mainlanders. Now, these days, I see the difference in my Hong Kong friends. They've been beaten down morally, and in some subtle and not so subtle ways. One of my friends sent me a picture of what she woke up to on October 1 (Chinese National Day) in Victoria Harbor, which was a giant float with yellow letters on a red background (a nod to the Chinese flag), reminding every Hong Konger who was in control. A very sad situation, thank you for highlighting it.
The hypocrisy of the American political class never ceases to astound me. Haass says, "We don’t have the luxury of building a foreign policy that is centered on promoting the rule of democracy and human rights, so our influence is limited…" Yet, I'm sure he's a huge cheerleader for emptying our coffers into the snakepit that is Ukraine in the name of protecting democracy.
Mar 1, 2023·edited Mar 1, 2023Liked by Ryan DeLarme
Wow. You forgot to mention that all protests movements were strangely disappeared around November or December of 2019. And just exactly what could have happened upstream from Hong Kong in the little hamlet of Wuhan about that same time? You cannot make this shit up. But in China, you do not have to.
Every single move and every single word this fake administration is doing is to hurry and push this country into the new world order hands of the world economic forum and their ilk. They're in such a hurry they're vomiting all over themselves and it's obvious!!
I love your title on the parts. 1st rate job in covering Hong Kong. The only city/country I have been to outside of the US is Hong Kong/New Economic Zone/Guangzhou, China. All because my older brother loved to travel and embraced the culture, learned the 2 languages there and became a permanent resident and even owned property for several years. I visited him twice. Last time was in 1990. He came back to the states in 2002, broke and messed up, just at the beginning of the big $ potential kicked into high gear lol. Nixon opened the door as planned via Kissinger in 1972 when he stepped off the plane. The year after Fiat currency went off the gold standard in 1971. Also the year the Apollo space missions were grounded and then the Shuttle was born for Low Earth Orbit to ferry up satellites, each year adding to the flotsam surrounding our planet if viewed from a far. Oh and if you go back in time Nixon was Prescott Bush's favored boy to be mentored/groomed in Congress.
Well Try researching what British rule was in the colonies. Its very easy to find worms and muck in current system but given where they come from, where secret police roamed and British police officers beat any random person to death on the streets, its better place. Just one example - "Jalian wala bagh" massacre where British officers murdered random group of people in the park.
I am an Indian citizen, and I can tell that its easy for someone from the west to label things superficially but there is something called evolution. The west evolved from Kingdoms to republics.
The British dictatorships across the colonies were criminal in my opinion. The "English East India company" chopped the thumbs of textile workers so in order for British textile industry to flourish, while the Indian textile industry collapsed creating famines and poverty. The same green policies of today, they want to install in west WEF - funded by the British royal family. Where central bureaucrats decide what to be grown in farm what you can eat and what you can buy and even think in your mind.
So please do research before labeling what china is doing or what it is not doing. I am not a fan of china but any person from west claim they are for "Hunan rights" an all that song of "democracy and bla bla bla.... " please cut the crap.
There is a reason why the Brits are hated in India and along multiple of countries Including Hong Kong, when Theresa May wanted free trade deal with India without liberalizing the visa regime. There were riots and protest all across India. Modi Govt had to say No to the free trade deal.
The colonies NEVER HAD ANY DEMOCRACY, there was a viceroy installed by to crown, So coming from lawless dictatorship of some foreign criminals to current state is not a problem, Evolution is a process.
Oh the Indian Britons, the 1.7 million Ethnic Indian population are agents who worked with colonialists, to keep the crown rule and ensure the stealing of wealth and resources, the elite in Britain knows it very well. Furthermore they are no even Indians 100% because the soldiers from Britain had to get married in India as they were trained to be so cruel and brutal, no man gave his daughter to any person who served in British Raj in India. (yes in 1800's in Britain there were arranged marriages)
At the time of independence in 1947 there were half a million Anglo Indians ( Half Indian, half British) the progeny of those British soldiers. Majority left India for Britain and United states.
One of the prominent actors in Britain are Cliff Richard, Ben Kingsley they are both Anglo Indian.
I guess it's got to get worse before it gets better. Cheap words I know.
Right now, I assume most Americans wish to do for America before messing with yet another foreign problem elsewhere.
That is not to say that your analysis & discussion are not important, because it is in light of the quick-paced changes abruptly taking shape & hold upon the planet, elsewhere & here in the USA.
It's reasonable to lend assistance, even if only rhetorical (if true in both fact & heart) to another country, struggling for its freedom.
I think there are more elements involved, than political, in all this, but one would have to venture to the sci-fi channel for such conjecture.
Truth is stranger than fiction, they use to say, way back when.
Anyway. Thank You for the perspective at work in HK.
Great article, thank you! I had the privilege of living and working in Hong Kong back in 2016-2017, and still keep in touch with a lot of Hong Kongers today. Before I had lived there, I went on a work trip in 2014 to both Hong Kong and Shanghai, and as a "naive" Westerner, I didn't realize how very very different the cultures are between Hong Kong and mainland China. To be clear, everyone I met in both places were really fantastic people, but the people in mainland China always seemed a bit sad to me, one woman only wanted to talk to me about my (large) family, and lamented about not having any brothers or sisters. Another was only concerned that I liked China better than Hong Kong. In contrast, my friends from Hong Kong embraced being different, everything from style to sense of humor, unlike the forced homogeneity of mainlanders. Now, these days, I see the difference in my Hong Kong friends. They've been beaten down morally, and in some subtle and not so subtle ways. One of my friends sent me a picture of what she woke up to on October 1 (Chinese National Day) in Victoria Harbor, which was a giant float with yellow letters on a red background (a nod to the Chinese flag), reminding every Hong Konger who was in control. A very sad situation, thank you for highlighting it.
Thank God for your gifts, Ryan. You are exposing things not generally known and sharing it with your followers. God bless you.🙏
The hypocrisy of the American political class never ceases to astound me. Haass says, "We don’t have the luxury of building a foreign policy that is centered on promoting the rule of democracy and human rights, so our influence is limited…" Yet, I'm sure he's a huge cheerleader for emptying our coffers into the snakepit that is Ukraine in the name of protecting democracy.
Wow. You forgot to mention that all protests movements were strangely disappeared around November or December of 2019. And just exactly what could have happened upstream from Hong Kong in the little hamlet of Wuhan about that same time? You cannot make this shit up. But in China, you do not have to.
Every single move and every single word this fake administration is doing is to hurry and push this country into the new world order hands of the world economic forum and their ilk. They're in such a hurry they're vomiting all over themselves and it's obvious!!
Hell indeed Ryan . warning signs everywhere !
Biden is in office because he is beholden to China. And they are watching closely.
The opinion that Xi, Putin and Trump are working together is just that, an opinion.
I love your title on the parts. 1st rate job in covering Hong Kong. The only city/country I have been to outside of the US is Hong Kong/New Economic Zone/Guangzhou, China. All because my older brother loved to travel and embraced the culture, learned the 2 languages there and became a permanent resident and even owned property for several years. I visited him twice. Last time was in 1990. He came back to the states in 2002, broke and messed up, just at the beginning of the big $ potential kicked into high gear lol. Nixon opened the door as planned via Kissinger in 1972 when he stepped off the plane. The year after Fiat currency went off the gold standard in 1971. Also the year the Apollo space missions were grounded and then the Shuttle was born for Low Earth Orbit to ferry up satellites, each year adding to the flotsam surrounding our planet if viewed from a far. Oh and if you go back in time Nixon was Prescott Bush's favored boy to be mentored/groomed in Congress.
Well Try researching what British rule was in the colonies. Its very easy to find worms and muck in current system but given where they come from, where secret police roamed and British police officers beat any random person to death on the streets, its better place. Just one example - "Jalian wala bagh" massacre where British officers murdered random group of people in the park.
I am an Indian citizen, and I can tell that its easy for someone from the west to label things superficially but there is something called evolution. The west evolved from Kingdoms to republics.
The British dictatorships across the colonies were criminal in my opinion. The "English East India company" chopped the thumbs of textile workers so in order for British textile industry to flourish, while the Indian textile industry collapsed creating famines and poverty. The same green policies of today, they want to install in west WEF - funded by the British royal family. Where central bureaucrats decide what to be grown in farm what you can eat and what you can buy and even think in your mind.
So please do research before labeling what china is doing or what it is not doing. I am not a fan of china but any person from west claim they are for "Hunan rights" an all that song of "democracy and bla bla bla.... " please cut the crap.
There is a reason why the Brits are hated in India and along multiple of countries Including Hong Kong, when Theresa May wanted free trade deal with India without liberalizing the visa regime. There were riots and protest all across India. Modi Govt had to say No to the free trade deal.
The colonies NEVER HAD ANY DEMOCRACY, there was a viceroy installed by to crown, So coming from lawless dictatorship of some foreign criminals to current state is not a problem, Evolution is a process.
Oh the Indian Britons, the 1.7 million Ethnic Indian population are agents who worked with colonialists, to keep the crown rule and ensure the stealing of wealth and resources, the elite in Britain knows it very well. Furthermore they are no even Indians 100% because the soldiers from Britain had to get married in India as they were trained to be so cruel and brutal, no man gave his daughter to any person who served in British Raj in India. (yes in 1800's in Britain there were arranged marriages)
At the time of independence in 1947 there were half a million Anglo Indians ( Half Indian, half British) the progeny of those British soldiers. Majority left India for Britain and United states.
One of the prominent actors in Britain are Cliff Richard, Ben Kingsley they are both Anglo Indian.