China stuff

the HongKong protests are big, but few in the US MSM seem to be noticing.

Strategypage podcast on what this is about and a more recent article about China.

The government is currently waiting out the protestors and refusing to meet any of their demands. Even the extradition law is still waiting to be revived, rather than completely withdrawn as protestors demanded. The current cycle of protests began on June 4th when Hong Kong was the only place in China were large groups could gather to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Hong Kong is the only place in China where you can do a lot of things. Tiananmen was a spontaneous 1989 demonstration that scared Chinese officials a great deal as they saw it as potentially the start of a Chinese version of the early 1989 collapse of communist rule in East Europe.

and the local PhilInquirer has an article on China's bad year.




and another article on how China is using Cambodia to get around Trumpieboy's sanctions, and notes that big debt is essentially making Cambodia into a Chinese satellite nation.