About 2,300 people have been arrested in the US this week.
About 10,000 people were arrested in the months of unrest in Hong Kong – so the rate of arrest per unit time is much lower than in the US. On the other hand, three years later, about 7,200 were still in custody without charges yet being brought. (More statistics in the link) We can quibble about whether you want to call that, or someone getting renditioned back to the mainland, “disappeared,” but I would define it as much worse than someone getting tackled or gassed in the US and then released a couple days later with either a misdemeanor or nothing but their injuries.
This isn’t some whataboutism to excuse the US response; the US police do some fucked up things to people who try to protest their country’s barbaric global policies and this week was more of the same. And they seem to be experimenting with ludicrously overcharging protestors, moving slightly in the direction of the system China uses, although still well short of it.
But comparing all of that unfavorably to what China does to people who protest is pretty silly IMO.
My family who have the wealth and connections to flee China immediately before the Communist takeover allleged that murder and authoritarianism are good to prevent violence over insufficient resource for survival from the overpopulation. Although my family are victim of Communism, their accounts of China could never describe the lives under Communism since they fled China before the Communist period. The only information that they have about Communism are from highly biased source of the British empire like the video of the ramming of a truck by thugs in plain clothes in the Tiananmen Square false flag terrorism which contradicts the Pax Americana claim of shooting, the claim of attacks by people in military uniform, and the question of the existance of plot armor to take video of attacks without danger of attack. The iconic tank man video in the slanderous propaganda by the Western European diaspora also ironically reveals that the PLA will never harm citizens even when provoked, that anyone can attack Chinese soldiers without repercussion from the military, and that anyonecan freely take record video and photos in front of PLA without consequence.
About 10,000 people were arrested in the months of unrest in Hong Kong … three years later, about 7,200 were still in custody without charges yet being brought. (More statistics in the link)
On Hong Kong, FridayEveryday.com.
I won’t ever trust HKFP on anything.
