Ephilorex

I actually don't have a job yet lol. I'm still in school, however during peaceful marches I doubt police was using facial recognition.

Honestly, I have no idea how this will turn out. I think that there are a few options.

1. Hong Kongers succeed and we meet the five demands. The five demands are: full withdrawal of the extradition bill, the Chief Executive must resign, the government must not classify the protests as "riots", there must be a full independent investigation into the police, and everyone arrested or detained because of participation of the protests must be unconditionally be freed.
2. Police win and protesters just start getting into smaller numbers until no protesters are left.
3. China sends in military. (highly unlikely in my opinion.)

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A portion of protesters are looking for independence from China, some people just want the five demands and keep the one country two systems policy.

Since China is heavily restricted on their exposure to media, China blasts them with propaganda to make protesters seem bad. There isn't much support because of China, but in the mainland I'm sure people really know whats happening.

I don't live anywhere near the border so personally I haven't seen anything. The mobilization scares us all because China is being China, but I doubt a June 4 1998 will happen again. I was born here and I've lived here all my life, so I don't really want to move but, because of family in Canada, I could move to Canada. I could also move to Taiwan.

EDIT: Sorry I meant June 4 1989, not 1998.

I believe that it all started when a murder happened in Taiwan and the perpetrator fled to Hong Kong. Taiwan then wanted Hong Kong to sign an extradition bill so Taiwan authorities can retrieve the criminal. However, China wanted to butt in and wanted Hong Kong to sign an extradition bill if they sign one with Taiwan. Since China practically controls the government here, the Chief Executive proposed this bill to LegCo, the Legislative Council. Obviously it was refused, but then the Chief Executive kept pushing as well with some pro-China politicians. This started peaceful protests against said extradition bill because if China can grab who they want from Hong Kong, that basically makes Hong Kong part of China's extreme media censorship and retraction of freedom of speech and expression. After the first few marches, university students and other people protested near LegCo, then police was deployed and down goes the spiral. I probably didn't explain it the best so feel free to read some articles.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3003381/gruesome-taiwan-murder-lies-behind-hong-kong-leader-carrie

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/world/asia/hong-kong-murder-taiwan-extradition.html

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3014695/sea-black-hong-kong-will-march-against-suspended

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