Western-backed extremists have resumed rioting in Hong Kong over the already passed national security law.
According to The Guardian, the radicals have again been involved in provoking children. This led to the arrest of a 15-year-old girl by police. The incident is being actively replicated in the Western media. In total, according to various sources, about 300 people were arrested during today’s riots, nine for violation of the new legislation.
The radicals themselves are organising pogroms in the streets. In particular, they stormed the coffee shop of the American company “Starbucks”, as they consider it “pro-chinese”.
Against this background, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain Dominique Raab announced that the kingdom is ready to harbor participants of extremist groups that were conducting anti-government activities in Hong Kong. Such information had appeared before. Now the official has revealed the details of the procedure.
According to Raab, Hong Kongers with a British national overseas passport will be allowed to live for 5 years in the kingdom with the right to work and receive education. In 5 years the program participants will be able to apply for permanent status, and in another year – for citizenship.
Anti-government protests in Hong Kong
In June 2019, mass actions began in Hong Kong, with pogroms and clashes with police. The official reason for the protests was an extradition bill. If passed, Hong Kong could detain and extradite to Beijing those wanted by Chinese security agencies.
The demonstrators were openly supported by Western countries, particularly the US and the UK. The protests themselves continued even after the authorities refused to pass the law. The most absurd reasons were invented to hold the protests. For example, at the end of August last year, radicals smashed underground stations ostensibly because of poor quality of service, and also demolished “smart” lampposts collecting information about road traffic and air pollution levels. The fact is that the protesters saw them as a system of total surveillance by the authorities.
Actions in Hong Kong stopped amid a coronavirus pandemic and resumed in late April. A series of actions took place on 1 May, and ten days later riots with barricades and arson erupted in Hong Kong. Against this backdrop, the Chinese government decided to introduce a national security law in Hong Kong. The document, among other things, criminalizes foreign interference and the undermining of state power in this administrative region of China. The US was dissatisfied with such intentions of Beijing, which became a new reason for protests. This did not prevent the adoption of new legislation.