Woke up today and saw almost every single one of my wechat public account posting an article on Hong Kong. None of these accounts ever reports the news (mainly shopping shit).

More recirculating of the same article on my wechat groups.

PRC is getting ready to roll in the army. At this point, they have done all their groundwork in their media and gathering support from their people.

Mainlander are on mob mode right now toward Hong Kong protestors. People cheering every injury inflicted on the protestor/non-protestors.

Honestly if Tiananmen 2.0 unfolds live, majority of the mainlander would be cheering for CCP.

Sorry to shatter hongers' dream of starting similar civil unrest in China,

well hong kong hasn't even pulled the curfew card yet, if the hong kong police really wanted to clamp down on the riots I am pretty sure they are more than capable

He had the same shirt that the thugs worse in the Tsuen Wan attack (blue shirt with I love HKPD on it)

He also had an HKPD officer's namecard.

He had no press credentials, and claimed to be a tourist. But it turns out he is from Global Times, which is basically The Onion, but people think it's real in China.

Not everyone in China is a brainwashed moron, don't worry

This whole thing is over, and most likely open the door for further CCP controls to ensure that something like this will not happen again. totally backfired

you are right not everyone but a good 90% is buying the narrative and these voices are the loudest and most influentials.

Just like not everyone supports the protest in Hong Kong, but the protester's voices are the loudest and most influential right now.

Unfortunately, the difference is the mainlander sentiment is actively controlled and back by one of the most powerful armies/regime in the world.

Is that the actual chick that got shot? I wouldn't show up again to get the remaining eye blinded.

No I think she might be from the medical professionals' rally at Tuen Mun hospital today.

https://i.imgur.com/1WsgyZI.jpg

A lot of protesters are wearing eye patches after a cop shot that girl's eyeball out

Props to the protesters! Doing whatever it takes to stop the Chinese government propaganda machine! :thumbsup:

https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/h...hnk/index.html

Protesters detain reporter for Chinese state-run tabloid


A man who was detained by protesters and zip-tied to a luggage cart has been identified as a mainland Chinese reporter for state-run tabloid newspaper Global Times, according to the editor-in-chief of the outlet.


“Fu Guohao, reporter of GT website is being seized by demonstrators at HK airport. I affirm this man being tied in this video is the reporter himself. He has no other task except for reporting. I sincerely ask the demonstrators to release him,” Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of Chinese and English editions of the Global Times, tweeted.

Hong Kong TV channel iCable, a CNN affiliate, reported that the man was wearing a yellow high visibility vest and that protesters were demanding to see his press ID, while shouting "gangster" at him.

According to local reports, protesters pinned him to the ground, seized his belongings and draped an "I love HK Police" T-shirt over him, as others tried to step in and stop the violence

Seriously don't go

I would say otherwise. what they did pretty much damaged the reputation of the peaceful protests that happened at the airport.

The pro-gov/china media will squeeze the most out of this situation and point more towards the violence these protestors are causing.

What they should have done is , point him out from the crowd, then just tell him to leave or leave him alone. That said, from watching the RTHK video, you can tell the crowd has a lot of "gu wak jai" aka. gangsters mixed in wanting to stir shit up.

FailFish I cannot believe people thought tieing up the reporter was a good move to stop the Propanda machine.

Is this a one side battle with no consideration for enemy intelligence? Is everybody just blindly doing whatever they feel is right without even checking in on the consquence. Just because the protestor turn off their mainland news and stop reading what is going on the other side of the border, it doesn't mean the propganda has stop.

The chinese media has pick this up to spin even greater propganda now. Media and the people is egging the government to "wash hong kong with blood"


If you are trying to stop the propganda at least check to see what the result is.

Protesters: Let tie up this reporter so they can't spin more propganda.
Also protesters: If I dont read the propganda it doesn't exist therefore our tactic of stopping the propganda is working

FailFish

Just going to share 2 insightful stories here from a front line Caucasian reporter in Hong Kong:

From Aug 11:

From only an hour ago:

I found the 2nd post to be esp insightful. Esp with the bolded part, while I don't believe any cop or agent provocateur caught by the protesters would be in life threatening danger, I can assure you they will get a good hard beating. From that point on, the HKSAR gov / CCP will use it as the perfect excuse to pull a hard crackdown in whatever form it may take.

Guess I should tell my parents not go in Sept then? Do you think things would have die down by then?

That's not why they subdued him. People have been disguised as protesters and press from the beginning, attacking, identifying, and arresting them. I am NOT saying that beating him up was right BTW. His press credentials were bullshit or non existant, he identified himself as a tourist rather than press. He had the same shirt on him that the triads have been wearing. They didn't want to risk it, so they subdued him. From there, since there are no leaders, things kind of went out of control.

Anyway, it doesn't matter what kind of fuel you give the propagandists in China. They make up whatever shit they want anyway, it doesn't matter if it's 10% true or 90% true. That is irrelevant.

Who knows? the whole city could be up in flames by then. But if you have plans in the next few weeks I honestly think it's a bad idea to come. Airport seems fine at this moment, but only after a guy got arrested by public and beat up, a cop pulled a live gun on people to defend his life, and police have been shooting tear gas indoors at the MTR and airport, and housing estates. People have been arrested by simply walking around near the protest, including a former police officer who was detained for 48 hours while going on an evening stroll.

The way he describes it, there are no senior officers around, and it's just a bunch of junior officers not really knowing what to do. They are arguing with each other, yelling, punching and kicking holes in walls.. The police are in a state of chaos right now and can't be trusted (note I am not attaching maliciousness to that, it's just a fact)

I'm impressed. The public successfully saved another poor citizen from being arrested.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49330848

Cop was cornered and beaten in the airport, he had to draw his gun, they're so lucky the cop was restrained, anywhere else there'd be bodies on the ground

where do these cops get their training from? multiple times over the past few months i've seen single cops getting mobbed, why would they put themselves in those situations?

If it isn't obvious yet, the current crop of Hong Kong front line police primarily consists of poorly educated, poorly trained, and poorly disciplined goons. I am not at all surprised that they have forgotten their trainings, and let emotions take over when they are supposed to be executing a police operation in a coordinated and disciplined manner.

you gotta realize that they are just part time beat cops

you wonder where were the airport police with the mp5s

In case you haven't notice the requirements for HKPD have had their standards lowered and lowered each year because not enough people apply. I guess I would not enough people with moral applied so they have to get anyone they can.

Is this actually confirmed? It was literally a blurry pic of an excel spreadsheet.

Is it just me or does he have the wrong eye closed to aim that shotgun lol.