Comments by "神州 Shenzhou" (@Shenzhou.) on "PragerU" channel.

@HH-gf6rk Video: A third of the Hong Kong protestors arrested are teenagers youtu.be/_eIb_MtZILw
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@salomez-finnegan7952 Why can't I support China's government? Look at mainland China today and we are the world's 2nd largest economy and still growing, whereas Hong Kong's economy is ranked 34th in the world and is currently in a slump today. What happened to Hong Kong's previous prosperity under British colonial rule from 1841-1997?
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@Noneya Business Why not attempt to refute my points instead of accusing me of a communist? If China's political system has shown to be viable for our country, then what's wrong with continuing supporting our government?
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@CaesarCassius Hong Kong was taken from China by Britain. While Hong Kong was British colony from 1841-1997, the 1956 HK riots resulted in 59 deaths while the 1967 HK riots resulted in 51 deaths, all while under British colonial rule. Yet in today's 2019 HK riots, there have been zero deaths thus far so aren't the Hong Kong Police showing incredible restraint here? Despite being under severe stress, physical and mental fatigue after months of protests, and facing public humiliation by the protestors and foreign media?
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@drew8642 Hong Kong was taken from China by Britain. During the 19th century, the British wanted to continue drinking Chinese tea, but China did not want anything the West had to offer, so Britain waged two bloody wars with China and forced Chinese to buy opium from them at gunpoint, which we didn't want because it made us sick and was poisoning our people. During this weak period of Chinese history, Hong Kong was taken from China and made into British colony, to act as a drug distribution hub to spread the addiction throughout rest of China. Even when Britain renounced ownership over its former territories, Hong Kong was not fully returned back to China, and China had to agree to Sino-British declaration just for Britain to handover what belongs to us.
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@drew8642 Look at China and mainland China is world's 2nd largest economy and still growing. Whereas Hong Kong's economy is ranked 34th in the world and is currently in a slump today. And that's despite mainland China bring under communist party rule, while Hong Kong is suffering riots, under its own democratic government.
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The Chinese Communist Party is not perfect (then again which government body truly is?) but despite its initial failures and setbacks, under its leadership, China's population doubled, our lifespans doubled, our literacy rates doubled, and our poverty rates plummeted. The graph below shows life-expectencies across China, Europe, USA and India. Source: Life Expectancy at Birth in China, Europe, USA and India china-profile.com/data/fig_WPP2010_L0_Boths.htm China was once a dirt-poor, war-torn, starving country similar to India (world's largest democracy) in the past, but today, China has since transformed into world's 2nd largest economy, the world's factory (Made in China) having world's 2nd highest R&D spending, protected by world's largest land army, the People's Liberation Army, funded by world's 2nd highest military expenditure. And it's all been achieved under communist party leadership, despite Western anti-Communist propaganda constantly denouncing China's success all along.
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I have a question, when's the last time you actually revisited China? China today is actually prosperous under the Communist Party rule, whereas Hong Kong is suffering under its own democratic government rule.
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@ernestosamuelsen6984 Source: China overtakes US as Africa’s top trading partner businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/539550-850122-view-asAMP-weqnvxz/index.html
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These Hong Kong rioters resort to violence, arsonism, vandalism, hurling petrol bombs, breaking building windows, security cameras, traffic lights and damaging Hong Kong MTR stations, setting shops on fire. Why can't the Hong Kong Police beat up these criminals and arrest them?
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@plc3653 Consider this question: Who is more qualified to lead the country? The People or The Government? (If you selected The People, then why do countries still need The Government then?)
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Oppressing? Prior to the 1997 handover, Hong Kong was British colony and the 1956 HK riots resulted in 59 deaths while the 1967 HK riots resulted in 51 deaths. Yet after the handover back to mainland China, today's 2019 HK riots resulted in zero deaths thus far, so aren't the Hong Kong Police showing incredible restraint here? Despite being under severe stress, physical and mental fatigue after months of protests, and facing public humiliation by the protestors and the foreign journalists?
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Why are you accusing me of being 50 cents? When did I ever said anything about the Chinese Communist Party here in this thread?
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Enemy? China today is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc. Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
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Gen-hong Liu China's political system has shown to be viable for our country, what better form of leadership is there? Look at mainland China and we are the world's 2nd largest economy in the world and is still growing, whereas Hong Kong's economy is ranked 34th in the world and is currently in a slump today. What happened to Hong Kong's previous prosperity under British colonial rule from 1841-1997?
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@keithedwards9953 Previously, Hong Kong was once a thriving port city while as British colony, while the mainland was still dirt-poor at that time. Today however, fortunes have reversed and Hong Kong has since fallen behind other rising mainland port cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Ningbo-Zhousan, etc, and is facing increasing levels of competition from other upcoming mainland cities like Qingdao, Tianjin, Xiamen, Dalian, etc. Source: List of busiest container ports wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_container_ports Source: List of busiest ports by cargo tonnage wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_ports_by_cargo_tonnage And that's despite mainland cities being under communist party rule, while Hong Kong is suffering under its own democratic government. No wonder why the people of Hong Kong feel like they're being left behind as mainland cities start surpassing Hong Kong.
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@keithedwards9953 Seized Hong Kong? Hong Kong was part taken from China by Britain During the 19th century, the British wanted to continue drinking Chinese tea, but China did not want anything the West had to offer, so Britain waged two bloody wars with China and forced Chinese to buy opium from them at gunpoint, which we didn't want because it made us sick and was poisoning our people. During this weak period of Chinese history, Hong Kong was taken from China and made into British colony, to act as a drug distribution hub to spread the addiction throughout rest of China. Even when Britain renounced ownership over its former territories, Hong Kong was not fully returned back to China, and China had to agree to Sino-British declaration just for Britain to handover what belongs to us.
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@keithedwards9953 Hong Kong was under authoritarian British colonial rule from 1841-1997, during which Hong Kong did not enjoy democracy and virtually no elections were held by people of Hong Kong while it was British colony. Only during the period of Hong Kong handover back to mainland China that Hong Kong people finally get to vote in elections for their favourite leaders. So isn't it thanks to mainland China that Hong Kong people finally get democracy under the One Country, Two Systems Policy, when they had none before?
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@keithedwards9953 Why Britain only "grant" Hong Kong democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press only after over 100 years of British rule? Hong Kong actually held more elections AFTER the 1997 handover back to mainland China, than it ever had for 150 years as British colony, so what makes you think Britain wanted to give Hong Kong that? China put forth the One Country, Two Systems Policy, and that's why Hong Kong finally gets democracy and their own separate government from the mainland, when they had none before. And why should CCP give the rest of mainland China that? Look at the chaos in Hong Kong right now and why should China let these riots spread to the mainland? Because Westerners say so?
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