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A problem with that analysis is that they already caved on the chief demand (formal withdrawal of the bill), after saying all summer it wouldn't happen.
by idlewords 7y ago
A problem with that analysis is that they already caved on the chief demand (formal withdrawal of the bill), after saying all summer it wouldn't happen.
- DonaldFisk 7y agoIt's worth pointing out that the bill was introduced in order to extradite someone who was accused of murdering his girlfriend in Taiwan, with which Hong Kong didn't have an extradition treaty, but it wasn't sufficiently narrow in scope to do just that, which caused fear that it could have been used in future to extradite citizens to mainland China.
- gwd 7y agoYes. One of the side effects of being a liar is that nobody trusts you even when you're telling the truth; one of the side effects of having a corrupt legal system is that nobody trusts you, even with actual murderers. EDIT: It's worth pointing out that this is why Ecuador gave Assange asylum: it was clear that the UK and US legal systems were being politically corrupted. The political corruption of the legal system is just much more systematic in China.
- mrob 7y agoIt's not really withdrawn, it's just postponed for 28 years. "One country, two systems" expires in 2047, and the mainland government takes the long view.