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How many times do I have to teach you this lesson, old man?
An attack against America is not an adequate defense of China. Do better.
My defense of China is that the vast majority of people did not support independence, and that the government was far more leniant towards the protestors than a western government would have been. How would you have suggested China respond to the protests?
By not brutalizing the protestors? What do you mean? I don't have to have the correct answer to tell you that brutalizing people is the wrong answer?
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "brutalizing the protestors?" Is there any country on Earth where riots are left alone?
How many times do I have to condemn every government and then tell you to shut the fuck up and address the issues with this government, the one we are talking about, and not other ones?
You can condemn every government if you want. You're not actually getting anything accomplished by doing so, though, in condemning everything you're left alone. By your response, you would have let the riots persist, I imagine? Even if people were hurt by the rioters?
Who was being hurt by rioters?
Counter-protestors. There was violent conflict between the rioters and the pro-government counter-protestors, which meant putting an end to the riots to begin with was the correct move to limit the damages and injuries.
It seems the violence described in the article is at least partially in response to a cop shooting a teenager? Got something else?
Sure, here's protestors setting a man on fire.
This is certainly an example of abhorrently violent behavior that I will assume is unjustified (I didn't want to watch the video, I'm not desensitized to this stuff). And to clarify, this is supposed to justify ramping up violent response to protesters? Instead of searching for and arresting perpetrators who were caught on film?
To clarify your point, are you saying you would have rather the government treat the symptoms after they appeared, and never address the root cause? It sounds like you're arguing China just let the violence happen and just step in at an individual level. The riots were put down with extraordinary restraint for their scale, which is why they went on for so long, until the HK gov banned foreign funding of political parties.