The ongoing Hong Kong thread

[ray245]

Given we do have a number of people that do want to discuss the issue in Hong Kong, perhaps a dedicated thread might be more helpful? Including posting more articles on what is happening in Hong Kong and adding more local context to the issue? The threads I've seen at other forums where local Hong Kongers are providing a more local perspective can be remarkably useful in better understanding the issue than relying on outsider view from non-HK news source.

If people want me to give them an idea of what the Hong Kong newspaper are saying in Chinese/Cantonese, I'll try and give you a brief summary and translation of those articles.

[madd0ct0r]

I would be interested in that. I've friends out there who were active in tudent protests but I've since lost contact with (left facebook)

[ray245]

There's been more coverage on a different dynamic/narrative to the HK protest recently, with more and more western media being more willing to acknowledge the fact that the protest movement does divide the Hong Kongers.



Whether you are in support or in opposition to the protest movements, it is not a simple narrative of Hong Kongers vs the Chinese government.

[Solauren]

This kind of reminds me of the protests in West Germany before the Wall fell.

[madd0ct0r]

Elections are in

ome 2.94 million people voted in the election, compared with 1.4 million in 2015.
Pro-democracy candidates won close to 60% of the total vote on Sunday, but achieved a landslide in terms of seats because of the first-past-the-post system, local media report.
Pro-democracy contenders were victorious in 347 of the 452 district council seats up for grabs; pro-Beijing candidates won 60 seats; while independents - many of them pro-democracy - got 45, according to the South China Morning Post.
In the last election four years ago, pro-Beijing councillors won 298 seats, but the distribution of these seats meant they took control of all 18 district councils.
They retained control of only the Islands District Council after Sunday's vote.[\quote]