What Chinese Citizens Have and Haven’t Learned About Hong Kong’s Protests
Sure, China great firewalling the protest, which is very expected.<p>Ever noticed that none of the articles so far has actually articulated what&#x27;s bad about the extradition bill? The reporting language is typically either &quot;Beijing-backed extradition bill&quot;, or some form of &quot;extradition bill opposed by Hong Kongers&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.legco.gov.hk&#x2F;yr18-19&#x2F;english&#x2F;bills&#x2F;brief&#x2F;b201903291_brf.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.legco.gov.hk&#x2F;yr18-19&#x2F;english&#x2F;bills&#x2F;brief&#x2F;b201903...</a> is the older version of the bill, which did not contain the concession that bumped the minimum prison sentence requirement from 3-years to 7-years, before the protest started, from one of the news article I read.<p>SCMP, which is basically the English language newspaper of record in HK, has this infographic <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;multimedia.scmp.com&#x2F;infographics&#x2F;news&#x2F;hong-kong&#x2F;article&#x2F;3013512&#x2F;hong-kong-extradition&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;multimedia.scmp.com&#x2F;infographics&#x2F;news&#x2F;hong-kong&#x2F;arti...</a>