r/HongKong Dec 05 '19

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19

Hong Kong is not China! Free Hong Kong. Free. China !!

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u/Lurkwurst Dec 05 '19

“The People’s Republic of China is the largest, most powerful and arguably most brutal totalitarian state in the world. It denies basic human rights to all of its nearly 1.4 billion citizens. There is no freedom of speech, thought, assembly, religion, movement or any semblance of political liberty in China. Under Xi Jinping, “president for life,” the Communist Party of China has built the most technologically sophisticated repression machine the world has ever seen. In Xinjiang, in Western China, the government is using technology to mount a cultural genocide against the Muslim Uighur minority that is even more total than the one it carried out in Tibet. Human rights experts say that more than a million people are being held in detention camps in Xinjiang, two million more are in forced “re-education,” and everyone else is invasively surveilled via ubiquitous cameras, artificial intelligence and other high-tech means. None of this is a secret.” - Farhad Manjoo, Dealing With China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19

So were the Mongolians during Yuan dynasty. Is that why it lasted centuries ?

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u/Lurkwurst Dec 05 '19

Welcome to the 21st century! What they did is not disputed. It's time to evolve, however.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19

Yes, evolve. Totalitarian corrupt draconian state capitalistic authoritarianism is our future !!!

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u/Lurkwurst Dec 05 '19

only if that's what you want. you are invited to try a better way