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> Do you think they would write a report like this if they found the US government trying to push a pro-democracy narrative into China instead? Yes, they would
by Canada 7y ago
> Do you think they would write a report like this if they found the US government trying to push a pro-democracy narrative into China instead?
Yes, they would. No doubt about it.
> This puts them on the right side of US regulators where as exposing a US propaganda campaign, not so much.
Which regulator do you think would object to such a revelation?
> It's not about truth, or what's morally right, it's about money.
Yeah, that's often true, but if it's true that Hong Kongers living under a system where due process is respected is also what's good for "money", then "money" and what's morally right happen to be aligned this time.
- liuliu 7y agoHong Kong has independent jurisdiction system. So yes, they are living under a system where due process is respected.
- Canada 7y agoWhat's that worth to Hong Kongers when they can simply be renditioned to Beijing? Does it make sense to you why Americans were extremely upset when the US government did that to people in foreign countries during the Bush administration?
- liuliu 7y agoFirst, they cannot be renditioned. That's what this protest is about. Yes. It is upset. It is also upsetting that the U.S. actually have limited due process as well (thus, can forfeit the asset without due process). There are practical reasons why, but it is still ideologically upsetting.
- 0x8BADF00D 7y agoDue process and rule of law can never really exist in Asian countries. It simply is not a part of the shared history and political economy. It is a fundamentally Western tradition, which is why it never works in non-Western countries. My father would often tell me stories of growing up in India during Indira Gandhi and how rule of law never really existed there. It is a philosophy that is fundamentally incompatible with non-Western cultures.
- adamsea 7y agoHomie. Chill.
- Canada 7y agoLate reply, sorry. My understanding is that the now suspended new law would make it legal for Beijing to have a person taken from Hong Kong with nothing more than the signoff of the CE, who is basically Beijing's appointee. It's my opinion that there is no due process in PRC, so it's effectively making Hong Kongers subject to renditioning. I agree that civil forfeiture as practiced for the last 20 years in the United States is wrong and needs to stop. The US government does some horribly unjust things, sometimes for decades without being checked. Few commentors on this web site would deny that. It's very important that governments don't get away with criminalizing dissent otherwise it's even more difficult to stop other excesses and abuses.