Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Hong Kong protests continue after overnight violence and arrests" video.

  1. Regrettably this is a David and Goliath battle where Goliath will win, at least in the short term. The patience of the Chinese government is running out, sooner or later they will impose martial law in Hong Kong. There are two reasons why this has not happened yet, the risk of condemnation by the western world and the risk of the protests contaminating mainland China. No doubt the Chinese government would like to avoid a repeat of the Tiananmen Square massacre, but it will not tolerate it's authority being abused much longer. So far it is Hong Kong's visibility to the west and it's isolation from mainland China that has saved it from military intervention. That will not last. We can expect the Chinese government to manipulate the unrest to give it an excuse to intervene. One way of doing this would be to introduce agents to incite more street violence. The military will then respond, while imposing a news blackout in Hong kong. With all news beginning managed by Beijing. Ironically the protestors will have engineered the very thing to which they are protesting. Any military clamp down will require the protest ring leaders to be subject to trial and punishment on the mainland, away from the more open media view in Hong Kong. The error the protesters have made is turning to violence, had they continued in a path of non violent civil disobedience that might have stood a chance, as it is it is only a matter of time before the Chinese government responds with force. They just need a major violent event as an excuse.
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