User:Taylortai0205/2019–20 Hong Kong protests

''Over the past 6 years, hongkonger has been undergoing over hundreds and thousands of major protests and movements, the conflicts are dramatically increase in between the people of Hong Kong, Hong Kong police and the government, many families are reconsider migrating England or other country in Asia like Taiwan. In 2014, Benny Tai, a law professor at Hong Kong University organize a peaceful protest name “Occupy Central with Love and Peace” the purpose of this protest is to strive for universal suffrage in 2017, over ten thousands of people it was in this peaceful protest to practice civic disobedience and many of them are students. Some protester hangs around after the protest, they refused to leave the scene, they were behaved in well manner, however, the police used excessive force along with weapons like tear gas and pepper spray to remove the protester. This protest creates the first conflict between the hongkonger and the police, it is later known as the “Umbrella Revolution”, all protesters had an umbrella on their hand to protect themselves from the tear gas and pepper spray. Over the years, there are tons of other conflicts and hate are created due to the force overuse from the police.''

''In 2019, a couple from HK went traveled in Taiwan and the guy murdered the girl in Taiwan and managed escaped back to HK. When the police in Taiwan solve the case, they were not able to arrest the suspect, because HK and Taiwan do not have a legal mechanism to transfer suspect. Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong uses this reason push to pass an extradition bill at the legislative council, the bill allows Hong Kong to transfer suspect to China, Macau and Taiwan.''

''In the past 2 years, protests are hold on the weekend, hongkonger mocked themselves for having a part time job in the weekend, the biggest protest had over 1,000,000 protester, requesting the government to withdraw the extradition bill, at the end the bill was withdraw, however it took up lots of effort from the hongkonger. Later, the protest evolves into the focus on police brutality and universal suffrage, the weapon on police escalated from tear gas to rubber bullet gun to a real gun, numbers of protester were shot and hospitalized. Now HK are separated in yellow and blue group, yellow group agree and support the protest, believe they should fight for freedom and democracy; blue group disagree against the protester, believe protest will bring the economy down, and create inconvenience for the public society. Politics becomes a daily topic in HK, and hongkonger have learn how to prepare their day, according to my friend, she always have a goggle and a mask in her bag, tear gas can come in a sudden, she had seen police launched a tear gas on an empty street at the nursing home neighborhood, people were randomly pull aside to search their bag and body and put charges on construction worker for his tool to be a weapon, The Department of Justice concern it will take very long time to process the massive amount of people, a judge show concern of the police honesty when they give a testimony on the court, he accused that this act was a waste of time and public money, some said HK had become a police state, a justice legislative system this the only good thing we have left.''

''Recently, the Chinese government had bypass the HK legislative council to pass a bill name “Hong Kong National Security Law”, this is the first time CCP interfere with the HK basic law after the handover in 1997, this purpose of the law is to prevent, suppress and punish act like secession, subversion of state power, terrorist activity and collusion with foreign country and foreign power that endanger the national security. There are negative effect I can see immediately after they pass the law, foreign investor concerns if HK can be a free trade market like before, also the president of USA, Donald Trump sign an executive order to revoke the special preferential treatment that allow HK enjoy separate custom and tourist from the rest of the China, it make a huge impact for the hongkonger, losing the special status HK now has no different from China, divestment had increase for business, the new law effect the creditability of HK and the people of HK, many believe that HK is destroyed by CCP and Carrie Lam, and it will not raise back like 1997, older generation suggest youngster to leave and migrate overseas if it is financial affordable. UK also provide help like visa free entry, extend visa time to a year, ability to work and study which will lead to a citizenship, however, this help would only apply for the hongkonger who hold BNO (British National Overseas) passport, only people who were born before 1st July of 1997 are eligible to apply for this passport. The exit strategy might not apply on all people who need help, for those who cannot afford a new life, and for those who decide to stay can continuous to fight against the CCP, I show them all my respect and I hope the HK culture will live no matter which part of the world are we on.''