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Mark Simon: Hong Kong strong -- Why world should be amazed by what has happened in this city
OPINION - By Mark Simon | Fox News
Protests breakout in Hong Kong over China extradition bill
Wall Street Journal columnist Bill McGurn says the people of Hong Kong are desperate.
What a difference a week makes. Sunday, June 9, saw 1 million citizens – one out of seven people here in Hong Kong – turn out in the streets to tell their government not to pass a new extradition amendment that would see Hong Kong sending “fugitives” wanted by Beijing to the mainland for trial and imprisonment. Yet, as the crowd grew, as people realized their numbers, June 9 was a day more marked by hope than defiance.
Defiance would arrive two days later on the night of June 11, a day before our pro-Beijing government planned to ram through the amendment in abbreviated sessions. Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, and the primary backer of the hated amendment refused any compromise and set the stage for a nasty confrontation on the streets. As one retired police superintendent said to me, “Fuel poured, match lit.”
Over 50,000 Hong Konger’s took to the streets late on June 11 to surround the Legislative Council. If legislators couldn’t get in, they could not vote. The police disagreed with that logic and for nearly 30 hours tens of thousands of demonstrators engaged the police in running street battles, complete with rubber bullets, tear gas, and in true Hong Kong style, umbrella led barricade charges.
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In the United States, in would come the National Guard to assist the police. Over here, things are not quite the same. We and many others had one question, a question we have asked from time to time for over 20 years, “Where was the People’s Liberation Army?”
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