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The long overdue national security law for Hong Kong
The Hong Kong rioters and other violent so-called opposition figures, are up for a big surprise soon: their actions may simply not be tolerated, anymore. In fact, they might become illegal. But not because, as the White House and the Western mass media are continuously trumpeting, "China is governed by the Communist Party", but simply because such activities are illegal in China as well as in most parts of the world, including the United States and Europe.
In some countries, which are seen as close allies of the West, like Indonesia and India, even speaking about independence can lead people to imprisonment, torture, rape, disappearance, and death. In Indian-administered Kashmir and Indonesian "administered" West Papua, hundreds of thousands have already vanished. In such places, just waving a flag of independence, can abruptly end human life. But in the Western lexicon, both Indonesia and India are defined as "democracies", and their political systems are hardly ever attacked or criticized. No sanctions are imposed due to "human rights violations".
Why? Simply because such countries are taking the diktat, meaning "behaving as close allies of the West", sacrificing their own citizens on the altar of North American and European political and corporate interests.
Being submissive to Washington, London, Paris and Brussels, obedient countries hardly ever gets 'punished', attacked or antagonized.
China is not 'obedient'. It does not kneel. China is defending her own people, as well as those billions of oppressed men, women and children, that are still abused by Western neo-colonialism, in all corners of the world.
Hong Kong is an integral part of China. It is, and this fact truly matters, particularly now, when China is being provoked on all fronts, politically, militarily, economically and ideologically. Its adversaries are looking for a 'soft spot', the Achilles heel, and they think that they have managed to identify it. They believe that it is Hong Kong, a former British colony and a territory known to be obsessed with business and trade.
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