China Might Send Their Soldiers to HK to Handle the Protestors If HK Requests for Them

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George Yang
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By now, even if you live in Mars, you’d have known about the protests in Hong Kong.

The protest that’s lasted as long as a Hello Kitty queue in Singapore has been in the headlines for months: initially, it started off as a mere march by 12,000 or 5,200 people (depending on whether you believe the organisers or the police) in March this year, followed by more marches with more people as the date of the reading for the controversy extradition bill approached.

Eventually, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam declared the bill “dead” but did not say that it would be completely withdrawn.

Long story cut short, the protests continued even when the bill is no longer being tabled (temporarily), as they requested for five key (and clear) goals:

  • Permanent withdrawal of the extradition bill
  • Carrie Lam to step down and allowing everyone to vote
  • Independent investigation into police violence and abuse of power
  • Withdrawing the classification of the 12 June protest as a “riot”
  • Releasing of arrested protesters without charges

As time went by, the number of protestors decreased but they became more confrontational and combative, and allegations of clashes between the protestors and the police surfaced.

It didn’t help that just a few days back, a group of people dressed in white suddenly assaulted the protestors. So far, it’s unknown why they had done so, and there were lots of allegations that it was done by pro-Beijing people and that the police were involved in the conspiracy.

And now, China is prepared to step in.

Well, to be exact, their army is prepared to step in.

Now, don’t be a headline reader and think they’re going all out. They’re just prepared.

PLA Troops in Hong Kong Might be Deployed to Maintain Public Order

If you’ve noticed, most TVB’s dramas have the same plot: people in an organisation fought for power, the bad guy turned good and the good guy turned bad.

The only difference in each drama? The organisation.

And that organisation is always their police force. Just ask Andy Lau how many times he’s acted as a cop (though he’s in movies and not TVB lah).

However, you’d never see their army as the organisation because Hong Kong doesn’t have its own military force.

Instead, they’re protected by China’s People Liberation Army, and they merely have a base by the PLA that comprises 6,000 personnel that report to China.

Now, if you’ve read stories about soldiers being stationed in key buildings in Hong Kong to stop protestors, they are all fake news.

China hasn’t interfered with Hong Kong’s protests, and they won’t—I mean, just consider the repercussions if they did.

However, yesterday, China said that if requested, they’ll step in.

According to their spokesperson, there is a clause that shows that if the Hong Kong government requests help to deploy their troops (the 6,000 personnel mentioned earlier) to maintain public order, they can do so.

In the clause, which is referenced as “Article 14”, it states that the city’s government can ask the central government for assistance from the PLA’s Hong Kong garrison to maintain public order and for disaster relief.

During a briefing on another matter, Colonel Wu, the spokesperson, told reporters this: “We are closely following the developments in Hong Kong, especially the violent attack against the central government liaison office by radicals on July 21…Some behaviour of the radical protesters is challenging the authority of the central government and the bottom line of one country, two systems, and that is absolutely intolerable. The Pearl of the Orient is not to be defiled.”

In the meantime, countries all over the world mostly think that people’s rights should be preserved, and protests should be done peacefully without any violence.

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