Hong Kong suspends controversial extradition bill
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I don't know if Carrie Lam will be asked to resign or if she will accept resignation, frankly I'm not sure whether to support resignation or not given she actually postponed this bill, which I initially didn't think she would ever do.
Time will tell if she serious or if this is just to get people to go home, forget about it, then quietly slip it in as a rider on another bill or otherwise pass it without as much opposition that time.
Lastly, I can only applaud Taiwan for standing against this bill in their own way by refusing to use it even if it were passed.
It's difficult to see what's commendable in effectively approving that people may evade Taiwanese justice by hiding in HK just for the sake scoring PR points against the mainland at a time when elections are coming up.
This is the worst level of populism, frankly, and transparently insincere.
It may actually backfire because that bill was partly brought forward because of the outrage caused by doing exactly that (evading Taiwanese justice by fleeing to HK).
Unless someone wants to poop all over my very reductive take on this, I'm going to treat it as proof that peaceful demonstrations in the streets still mean something (sometimes).
Was it pressure from some external factor or possibly the protests themselves truly enough to stop this?