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The bigger news is the police attacked an university in Hong Kong. Thousands of rounds of tear gas and rubber bullets were fired.

justicezyx 7y ago
Wow, HK police, backed from Chinese gov, is desperate to attach an university! WTF are they thinking? Why provoke students in campus... No idea what's going on. PS: I am shocked by this activity. Even during the communism revolution, the government has left the university intact. The HK policy lost their mind...
- naringas 7y ago
  mainland China is teaching HK how the world actually works. might makes right. (economic 'prosperity' for the masses is a form of might, but so is violence)
- simlevesque 7y ago
  HK police are PLA soldiers.
  - neonIcon 7y ago
    Exactly this. There was a video released yesterday on the HK subreddit showing what seemed to be a special unit of "police" who bore no badges or any identification past riot shields emblazoned with "police" at the university. These dudes looked huge compared to everyone else there.
    - p_l 7y ago
      China uses the same "Ministry of Interior Armed Forces" system as Soviet Union did. They are kept separate from PLA so that they can be the thugs without contaminating real army, and the popular opinion follows on this. So I suspect it's all interior forces, not PLA.
- flyingfences 7y ago
  I've heard theories that they were after HK's main internet exchange, which is hosted on the campus. I'm not so sure that's a priority for them. I'd be more inclined to believe a "control of academia" angle - to put a limit on "credible" reports and opinions from HK. The real aim was probably the students. Public perception, especially among the mainland camp, is that this is mostly a youth protest (but from what I've heard, it's far from solely a youth protest). Back in August, they were all saying that the protests would die down and fizzle out once the semester started (which obviously didn't end up happening). In their eyes, the educated youth are the ones "driving" the protests. In their eyes, taking and suppressing the university would be a strike at the core of the pro-HK movement. That didn't work, and now their move is backfiring into further publicity and support for Hong Kong.
mortenjorck 7y ago
WSJ’s editorial staff must really want to avoid upsetting anyone in the CCP. Following tweets from people on the ground, like AFP correspondent Xinqi Su (https://twitter.com/xinqisu https://twitter.com/xinqisu), Quartz reporter Mary Hui (https://twitter.com/maryhui https://twitter.com/maryhui), academic researcher on networked protests Zeynep Tufekci (https://twitter.com/zeynep https://twitter.com/zeynep), or quite surprisingly Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski (https://twitter.com/pinboard https://twitter.com/pinboard), paint a starkly different picture from the article.
homarp 7y ago
as http://www.hkix.net/hkix/whatishkix.htm http://www.hkix.net/hkix/whatishkix.htm indicates, CUHK hosts Hong Kong Internet exchange (HKiX).
8bitsrule 7y ago
History note: The US was tear-gassing universities over 50 years ago. From helicopters.

justicezyx 7y ago

Wow, HK police, backed from Chinese gov, is desperate to attach an university! WTF are they thinking? Why provoke students in campus... No idea what's going on. PS: I am shocked by this activity. Even during the communism revolution, the government has left the university intact. The HK policy lost their mind...

naringas 7y ago
mainland China is teaching HK how the world actually works. might makes right. (economic 'prosperity' for the masses is a form of might, but so is violence)
simlevesque 7y ago
HK police are PLA soldiers.
- neonIcon 7y ago
  Exactly this. There was a video released yesterday on the HK subreddit showing what seemed to be a special unit of "police" who bore no badges or any identification past riot shields emblazoned with "police" at the university. These dudes looked huge compared to everyone else there.
  - p_l 7y ago
    China uses the same "Ministry of Interior Armed Forces" system as Soviet Union did. They are kept separate from PLA so that they can be the thugs without contaminating real army, and the popular opinion follows on this. So I suspect it's all interior forces, not PLA.
flyingfences 7y ago
I've heard theories that they were after HK's main internet exchange, which is hosted on the campus. I'm not so sure that's a priority for them. I'd be more inclined to believe a "control of academia" angle - to put a limit on "credible" reports and opinions from HK. The real aim was probably the students. Public perception, especially among the mainland camp, is that this is mostly a youth protest (but from what I've heard, it's far from solely a youth protest). Back in August, they were all saying that the protests would die down and fizzle out once the semester started (which obviously didn't end up happening). In their eyes, the educated youth are the ones "driving" the protests. In their eyes, taking and suppressing the university would be a strike at the core of the pro-HK movement. That didn't work, and now their move is backfiring into further publicity and support for Hong Kong.

mortenjorck 7y ago

WSJ’s editorial staff must really want to avoid upsetting anyone in the CCP. Following tweets from people on the ground, like AFP correspondent Xinqi Su (https://twitter.com/xinqisu https://twitter.com/xinqisu), Quartz reporter Mary Hui (https://twitter.com/maryhui https://twitter.com/maryhui), academic researcher on networked protests Zeynep Tufekci (https://twitter.com/zeynep https://twitter.com/zeynep), or quite surprisingly Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski (https://twitter.com/pinboard https://twitter.com/pinboard), paint a starkly different picture from the article.

homarp 7y ago

as http://www.hkix.net/hkix/whatishkix.htm http://www.hkix.net/hkix/whatishkix.htm indicates, CUHK hosts Hong Kong Internet exchange (HKiX).

8bitsrule 7y ago

History note: The US was tear-gassing universities over 50 years ago. From helicopters.