One Old Woman Holding A Yellow Umbrella Paint With Union Jack Flag In Hong Kong

[ChingWan23]

Few days ago, an old woman on her own holding a yellow umbrella paint with union jack flag in Hong Kong. Just one old woman and on her own, but she got arrest because of unlawful gathering. What is wrong?

[Neveracrossword]

Is this the woman who's been an activist for a long time, involved in many action? I think protests are now illegal in Hong Kong, though I'm unsure of the details.

[New Judge]

There's nothing wrong.

Hong Kong is now part of China. Everybody needs to accept that. The Chinese authorities are a bit funny when it comes to things like this.

[barry1010]

Is this her? https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/voa-news-china/hong-kongs-grandma-wong-arrested-solo-tiananmen-protest

[ChingWan23]

Just read another article. Neveracrossword you are right, she is a activist, and time is close to the anniversary of Beijing's 1989 crackdown on democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. But she just an old gramma!!!

[barry1010]

At 66 she is not particularly old and in any case age has nothing to do with it.

[ChingWan23]

OK 66 is not count as old, but just one single woman walking on her own and no wespon. What can she do?

[woofgang]

I am genuinely not sure what you want us to say. I mean its not like China's attitude is any surprise.

[ChingWan23]

I still shock of hearing the arrest of just one single woman as Hong Kong used to be one of the place in the world with highest rank for the personal freedom index. Just upset of seeing such dramatic and extreme changes!!!

[douglas9401]

A gunboat, it's the only answer.

[barry1010]

It's because she has a very long history of protests and demonstrations. If China lets her get away with it as 'just one woman' that couldn't justify preventing anyone else from making a stand.

China doesn't tolerate demonstrations or protests against the government.

[davebro]

Macau was a Portugese colony until 1999 when it reverted to Chinese rule. How is it different from Hong Kong? Why are the people there not protesting so much - or are they protesting and we just don't hear about it?

Has Portugal agreed to take people from Macau if the want to emigrate?

[davebro]

*they*

[New Judge]

//....Hong Kong used to be one of the place in the world with highest rank for the personal freedom index.//

Yes but that was when it was a British Crown Colony. I'll say it again in case you missed it - it's part of China now.

[Peter Pedant]

// Hong Kong is now part of China. Everybody needs to accept that. //
always was actually - but many people know that

Fat Pang ( last governor, Patten, that is) allowed people to think Hong Kong was an autonomous region ( so his inevitable reforms and cession wd get froo Parlement see?) when it wasnt and never would be

such is life - the nobs lie to the people to quieten them. Hooray for British Justice. we need more of it not less - hillsborough, Post office: it was all meant to be like that
and for OUR good !

British Justice , Hong Kong I hear you say
yes the high court there is stuffied with London silks
you know what reader? - - - - - ( what?)
they are actually agonising about whether they should be ( there)
with their very large pay checks - and huge pensions

is so so - -- difficult

[Peter Pedant]

it never was a special autonomious region

but a special economic area ( look it up)

one is autonomous (*) and the other er isnt

autos - own, his - vomos - law,c custom rule)

this isnt too cerebral, for this thread of lies is it?

[Mamyalynne]

I see your canal side lunch hasn't improved your temperament Peter, don't charge straight in with an insult.

People are not deliberating lying, they are answering the OP.

[Peter Pedant]

ching wan - you are battling your head against Engish prejudice - and one a lawyer !

//Macau was a Portugese colony until 1999 ........and we just don't hear about it?//

Boilloooox jsut bollowoux - Part of Hong Kong was ceded in perpetuity to England in 1854 - and the rest by treaty for 99 y.
The 99y was up, and the permanent part cd not exist on its own

The Peking govt cd put 1.000 000 chinese protesting british injustice on the streets at will ( and did) and the British were case as villains and pirates

I agree things have now changed - with some irony - The Bad British rule in Hong Kong is now looked on as a halcyon time of peace and prosperity

I remember ( 20y) chinese shouting at me - - one of my forebears was Gov of Hong Kong ( Pottinger) and now their realtions are clamouring to come here
Even i didnt foresee that

[Peter Pedant]

hi Mama
//People are not deliberating lying//
Patten was deliberately misleading
Even the BeeB was taken in - I forced them to revise - on the grounds it was not an economic area. And so you see boys and girls the chinese govt cd have done this any time in the last 20 y and chose to do it 2 y ago.

If NJ is going to give a legal opinion - he MUST get it right
( not misleadingly wrong)

The secret police spent a lot of time educating me (*) because they thought I was the son of a head of MI5 - I wasnt, dates wrong. I was horrified to find out later that Fat Pang had led us up the garden path. ( no alternative we had to give it back)

(*) I heard my guide thay in Mandarin to the driver - have you followed what he just said? and I wondered why on earth did a guide ask a walk in taxi driver, if he understood my speech - as tho he gave the orders

Ching wan - Hong Kong is finished as the govt of the PRC in Beijing dont need it ( shanghai will do)

[Peter Pedant]

// I'll say it again in case you missed it - it's part of China now.//
oh
I'll say it again in case you missed it - it always has been part of China after the British left, but the status is nuanced by people who really should know better
so that outrageous actions can be excused

[Mamyalynne]

Far better to do as you have now done and explain the points you see as incorrect, rather than sweepingly damning the whole thread as 'a thread of lies'.

That was my point.