I don't think guns would have helped them.
It would have helped justify a full-fledged crackdown by the PLA, like in 1989.
Was HK gun-friendly before the takeover?
This has me worried. My oldest daughter is now teaching in Shenzhen, just a stone's throw across the border from Hong Kong. She's already under intense covert observation by the Chinese government, and this won't help any.
The language used...the fire metaphor...indicates that the Communist Mandarins have given the go ahead to use force.
Or at least they want people to believe that force has been approved. That's basically the same rhetoric they've used earlier, along with the video.
Now, I'm actually surprised they haven't intervened yet, except for a lightweight version of Putin's little green men (thugs with sticks in Hong Kong). Something is holding them back from direct action, and I don't know what it is.
Rubio on Twitter said:Because the spread of authoritarianism will eventually pose a threat to our own democracy.
This has me worried. My oldest daughter is now teaching in Shenzhen, just a stone's throw across the border from Hong Kong. She's already under intense covert observation by the Chinese government, and this won't help any.
Rubio has been trying to sound the alarm on the Chicoms for quite sometime while everyone else is focused on Russia.Sounds like Marco Rubio is proposing a Domino Theory Redux.
Yes. That it an incomplete sentence. Because Twitter.
I guess he has a WSJ editorial that elaborates, but its behind a paywall for me that I don't care enough about to bypass.