Although I like nothing about these riots and subversive acts, I agree with you the hand out to Ocean Park look really bad. Hong Kong Government just does not seem to be able to do the right thing, even with people urging it, the Chinese government helping it. It just wants to shoot itself in the foot.

While Beijing wanted to maintain Hong Kong as a vibrant financial centre, American companies were likely to make plans to leave and the phase one China-US trade deal agreed last year “could be in trouble”, Zweig said.
“If you’re the CEO of an American company in Hong Kong, or even a mainland company in Hong Kong, and you don’t have an exit strategy from Hong Kong, then you should be fired,” Zweig said.
“It’s tit-for-tat so far, and if the tits and the tats continue, then your exit strategy may have to be materialised, so you better have the strategy.”
Denny Roy, a senior fellow at the Hawaii-based East-West Centre, said many in the US had been angered by Trump’s announcement that the US would withdraw from the WHO in the middle of a pandemic and his failure to address nationwide protests over police brutality and racism.

While there was great sympathy in the US for the Hong Kong people, he said the US would be unable to force China to restore the city’s freedom.
“America is not going to war with China over this,” he said. “Washington will take some kind of symbolic action to express our dismay.
“I hope very much it will be calibrated to cause pain to PRC [People’s Republic of China] elites but not to further endanger the livelihoods of ordinary Hongkongers, who will probably have a harder time now as some foreign banks and corporations pull out.”

Wei Zongyou, a professor of China-US relations at Fudan University in Shanghai, said there was little possibility of tensions cooling and predicted that decoupling would intensify in a range of fields.
“As we see both sides take turns for revenge and countermeasures, it is unlikely there can be continued trade negotiation,” he said,
“The two countries lack an effective communication channel at present, and both sides are in a competition to see who is tougher.”
In his latest attack on Beijing, Trump accused the Chinese government of intellectual property theft, covering up its mishandling of the Covid-19 outbreak and abandoning its commitments to the World Trade Organisation.
The US president also said he would withdraw the US from the World Health Organisation due to Beijing’s perceived influence in the agency, move to end an extradition treaty with Hong Kong and increase scrutiny of Chinese companies listed on US financial markets.
“The Chinese government’s move against Hong Kong is the latest in a series of measures that are diminishing the city’s long-standing and very proud status – this is a tragedy for the people of Hong Kong, the people of China, and indeed the people of the world,” he said.
The White House later said it would expel Chinese graduate students with ties to Beijing’s “military-civil fusion strategy” – a move that could affect as many as 3,000 students.

David Zweig, director of the Centre on China’s Transnational Relations at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, said Trump had “taken the gloves off” and expected things to escalate further in the run-up to the US elections in November.
“Nobody wants to fight a war, but I think it’s going to be hard in the build-up to the election to take too moderate a position,” Zweig said.
“China’s very unpopular in lots of places, so it’s easier for the West to ratchet up their side, and I think it’s the same thing on the Chinese side.”
The latest study from Pew found that said China’s standing in America was at its lowest point since 2005, with around two thirds of respondents viewing the country unfavourable.

US-China tensions expected to escalate further after Donald Trump promises action over Hong Kong
Relations between the two sides are likely to carry on worsening after the US President said he would end the city’s preferential status after Beijing ‘smothered its freedom’
Observers predict spiral of retaliation will continue and question whether trade negotiations will be able to carry on

China and the US have little room to defuse tensions after Washington announced it would end Hong Kong’s special status, observers believe.
On Friday Donald Trump announced he would move to end agreements that gave the city preferential treatment over trade and travel and said he would sanction officials responsible for “absolutely smothering Hong Kong’s freedom”.
The move came after China’s national legislature approved for a national security law in the former British colony, in what critics described as an abandonment of the “one country, two systems” model of semi-autonomy.
Beijing has said it will respond to the latest US move, but has refrained from hitting back immediately, while state media coverage has remained relatively low key.
Donald Trump said he would end Hong Kong’s special status and launched another verbal broadside against Beijing. Photo: ReutersDonald Trump said he would end Hong Kong’s special status and launched another verbal broadside against Beijing. Photo: Reuters
Donald Trump said he would end Hong Kong’s special status and launched another verbal broadside against Beijing. Photo: Reuters
China and the US have little room to defuse tensions after Washington announced it would end Hong Kong’s special status, observers believe.
On Friday Donald Trump announced he would move to end agreements that gave the city preferential treatment over trade and travel and said he would sanction officials responsible for “absolutely smothering Hong Kong’s freedom”.
The move came after China’s national legislature approved for a national security law in the former British colony, in what critics described as an abandonment of the “one country, two systems” model of semi-autonomy.
Beijing has said it will respond to the latest US move, but has refrained from hitting back immediately, while state media coverage has remained relatively low key.

But observers believe that the tensions between the two sides are likely to escalate further given their competing interests across the globe in areas such as trade, technology and ideology.

Well just when you think their hypocrisy is the worse and can go no lower you are proven wrong again and it hits new depths.

For all the anti-Israel, pro Palestine, anti Jewish statement, you discover yet again that BN and the so called "demand dignity" group have no qualms going to bed with Israelis when it suits them.

I wonder also, knowing how intelligent and innovative the Israelis are, while the Special Branch are using the equipment to spy on others, has it occurred to them that the Israelis might be using the same equipment to spy on the Special Branch.

Well even if they did we probably would not know and can do nothing about it, since I doubt out UMiTs, UKMs and other universities are of the standard that can detect the same let alone thwart it. We seem good though in making NAZI Salutes. I wonder how that would go down with MOSSAD.

Wow! A shariah-compliant deal with Yahudis who kill routinely muslim Palestinians?

For something as Islamic as this, I'm sure Zakir Naik , PAS, all the muftis and Raja-raja Melayu would have been consulted before the deal was signed.

And did Mahathir, Muhyidin and that gofer H.Bador agree to continue with this? Or did the Special Branch conceal it from them?

PAS would love this story. They love Najib, they love BN but in front of everyone they say they are anti-Israel, blah,blah.

Najib is pro Israel..hehe... It seems umbo only after Israel to whip their political base...

Guys....Yes we are all aware about it and are part of the problem. Why is this then allowed and encouraged. The reason is obvious and then why do we shout now.

Provided the country of origin are ready to accept them back. The cost obviously is going to be ours. That's going to be a lot.

Was there any ground work investigation done as how these people survived here for so long and who were employing them, how they got in, how often they have been moving in and out etc.
I am sure these are useful data to work on to plug the loopholes.

Obviously not, because a big container of smelly worms will spill out. Remember those worms are still around and will be at it again.