Where in THE FREE WORLD could thousands of masked rioters repeatedly attack the police with weapons such as iron bars and not suffer a single death? And call on outside powers to come to their aid?
Londonderry? London? York? New York? Paris,Texas? Paris,France? Dublin?
The Hong Kong Police were originally modelled on the Royal Irish Constabulary and served the same masters in London. In the last decades of British rule they had a reputation for corruption. Britain’s chief legacy in China was drug addiction. Opium, grown under British auspices in India was pushed at the point of a gun and the deployment of gunboat “diplomacy” on China, a crime not forgotten there. A few years ago a British trade delegation arrived in China wearing Poppies – for “Remembrance Day.” The Chinese Remembered and the delegation got up their noses. In my lifetime there were parks in Shanghai with notices barring dogs and Chinese. Recent protesters in Hong Kong carried Union Jacks. The Hong Kong Police have behaved with disciplined restraint in the circumstances.
Other spokespersons for the “pro-Democracy” demonstrators have called for help from the United States. At the height of the Cold War the US planned, to annihilate China with nuclear weapons if war broke out between the United States and Russia. That lunatic policy was abandoned after the then head of the U.S. Marine Corps argued against it. China had no nuclear weapons at the time, nor was there much love lost between Soviet and Chinese leaders.
China in 1949 was an impoverished, insulted, abused and threatened country. Threats have not been abandoned, and dangerous zealots in the Henry Jackson Society such as Douglas Murray advocate “pre-emptive” nuclear strikes against Communist-ruled States. The cocaine-snorting, rabidly anti-Irish, Michael Gove is a mentor of Murray, and the most likely successor of Boris Johnson if the latter falls (or is pushed) under a bus.
Which is why I admire how China has made itself a rich country, free of famine and opium addiction, and prudently equipped to withstand threats from its external enemies, the canting hypocrisy of the Western media and the sleveen tendency of its domestic Quislings.
Congratulations, China!
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