[01.01] Hong Kong police intimidate young couple & point flashlight at citizen's eyes

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1. Wall Street Journal: Beijing Shakes Up Hong Kong Front Office, Signaling Tougher Tack on Protests

   HONG KONG—Beijing replaced its top representative in protest-racked Hong Kong, marking a toughened approach to resolving tensions that have fueled seven months of antigovernment unrest here.
   Luo Huining, a former provincial leader recently named as a senior legislative official, has replaced Wang Zhimin as director of the Chinese government’s liaison office in Hong Kong, according to a brief report published Saturday by China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency.
   “Wang’s removal must signify the degree of dissatisfaction” that Chinese President Xi Jinping feels about how Hong Kong affairs have been managed, said Steve Tsang, director of the School of Oriental and African Studies China Institute in London.

   And the appointment of Mr. Luo, who has no experience in Hong Kong policy-making and is senior to Mr. Wang, suggests that Beijing’s priority is to impose its will on the city, rather than soothing the feelings of Hong Kong people, Mr. Tsang said.
   Since mass protests erupted in June, broadly targeting Beijing’s growing influence over Hong Kong, Mr. Wang and the liaison office have been accused of underestimating the discontent fueling the unrest and the landslide defeat of pro-Beijing politicians at local district elections in November.

   His 27-month stint as Beijing’s top representative in Hong Kong was the shortest served in this role since the former British colony returned to Chinese control in 1997.

   The unrest in Hong Kong was triggered by proposed legislation that would have allowed people in the city to be extradited to face trial under mainland China’s opaque legal system. Though the bill has since been withdrawn, the protest movement has widened to press other demands, including the right for Hong Kongers to directly elect their leaders and a judge-led independent inquiry into allegations of police misconduct against protesters.

   Officials in Beijing and Hong Kong have signaled no inclination to accede to more demands beyond pulling the extradition bill, which was formally withdrawn in October. President Xi has repeatedly called on Hong Kong authorities to adopt tougher measures to end the unrest, while mass protests—both peaceful and violent—have kept unfolding, including a rally on New Year’s Day that organizers estimated drew more than a million people.
   The liaison office is tasked with monitoring political, economic and social developments in Hong Kong, as well as maintaining ties with local communities and conveying their views to Beijing.

   Set up in 1947 as Xinhua’s Hong Kong bureau, a designation that provided cover for its other role as a Communist Party front office in what was then a British colony, the office was given its current designation in 2000. Over the years, its officials have sought to influence Hong Kong affairs by lobbying local politicians and members of the business elite.
   Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, issued a statement welcoming Mr. Luo. She said she had been “impressed by his care for Hong Kong” when they met during Mr. Luo’s visit to the city in 2018 as the Communist Party chief for the northern province of Shanxi.
   The appointment of Mr. Luo, 65, deviates from recent precedent in how Beijing picks its top representative in Hong Kong. Since the city’s handover to China, the post had been assigned to officials with experience in agencies handling foreign affairs or Hong Kong policy.

   Over a four-decade political career, Mr. Luo hadn’t worked in any Communist Party or government agency directly overseeing Hong Kong affairs, according to his official resume. He was a local and regional official across three provinces, most recently in Shanxi, where he was tasked with cleansing a regional bureaucracy notorious for graft, as part of President Xi’s anticorruption drive.

   Just last week, he was given a post in the National People’s Congress, China’s legislature, as deputy director of its financial and economic affairs committee–an appointment that typically signals retirement from front-line politics.
   Some China politics watchers say Mr. Luo’s record suggests he has few ties with career officials in Hong Kong policy-making agencies, and therefore has a clean slate for revamping the liaison office and dealing with deep-seated tensions in the city.
   His predecessor, Mr. Wang, spent the bulk of his career in agencies overseeing Hong Kong policy, including Beijing’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office and its liaison office in the former British colony. Mr. Wang also had stints in Fujian province that overlapped with Mr. Xi’s terms there as a local and regional leader.

   Mr. Luo is three years older than Mr. Wang and has reached the customary retirement age for Chinese officials at this rank–a possible sign that he is an interim pick before Beijing settles on a longer-term replacement.

2. https://twitter.com/Y_NWA96/status/1212660281400152064?s=20

   WTH

3. Be careful HKer

4. He went but had his 2 other police with him, what a scary cat. I’ll but if he went alone that police would of been on the ground.

5. The terrorist rabid mad attack dogs lawless rapist murderers thugs police-triads-pla of the evil criminal forced organs harvesters murderers to the millions CCP mafia gangsters strikes again! Kick them out of Hong Kong! Long live the Resistance!

6. China is asshoe

   EDIT: fixed spelling mistakes

7. This is exactly why these police need to be fired and prosecuted. Hk police acting like30000 strong school bullies. And not 1 of the other officers tries to stop him wish is even more pathetic. 5 demands not 1 less .

8. Fucking filthy CCP pigs!

9. US police would have beat the shit out of this punk.

10. These cops would be dead in US

11. That cop should lose their job instantly and the other police should be arresting him instantly.

12. Are you proud of this Carrie Lamb?

13. Hong kong police are gangsters

14. The translation is a bit weird in some parts … lol "Just now you were f*cking my mother?" (Didn't you want to F my mother just now?) I guess in HK, they says that a lot to each other when quarreling with each other.

15. These HKPF/PLA are beyond ridiculous and evil. They need to pay for their sins!!! 2020 end of CCP and its helpers.

16. the green dog can only barking, if he is a gentleman open his mask. So many people know and can looking for you, or better that green dog go back to their cage

17. disgusting. this is the end of all law without a balance of goodness to drive it. death and misery.

18. They are not riot police, they are filter instead

19. 抵制中共，警察滿街，挑釁到你還手，還手就打趴你，垃圾政權．

20. Disband HK Police!!!

    They are gangster!!

21. 不是蒙面法？警察可以蒙面喔

22. IS THIS THE ASEA'S FINEST? HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA, ASIA'S ROTTENEST (NEW ENGLISH WORD I JUST INVENTED), YES ASIA'S ROTTENEST.

23. Nice Police State.. Careful if you're young or dressed in black, even if you're totally peaceful.. Corrupt police that's probably infiltrated by the CCP might harass, provoke or arrest.

24. Riotpolice must not shine flashlights in citizen's eyes.
    Because then there is no reason to swear by the citizens. So actually this riotpolice is fucking up his own mother by his own behaviour.

25. Twist and turn it as you like, but in civilized law and order countries like USA or Germany, this cop would be unemployed latest by tomorrow.

26. like I said mad dogs, should someone kill some of them and they will stop bark

27. How are these police?!? They act like thugs!!!! No IQ or EQ. Corrupt pieces of shit!!!!

28. 以為蒙左半邊面 CHOCK埋聲就冇人認到

29. hk police = gangster

30. The funny thing is that these green thugs only act tough when they wear the green Copsroache skin and when they are in a group. As soon as they are off duty and singleton, they become coward!

31. What can we say? Only shit!

32. Popo are so tired, look at the voice of that cop, he is bad as fk

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