"I would bet that they wait a year and try to slip it through the back door. "

Agree.

Communists are very resourceful in their forced methods, they have long decades of experience.

It'll probably be disguised as something else, not the direct bill.

Hopefully Hong Kong people will be are smart to recognize the ruse.

I would bet that they wait a year and try to slip it through the back door. Communism can't exist in competition with capitalism - thus the use of force to pervert/control capitalism. The real question will be what kind of military actions they gear up for when they try to reinforce it again - ie will this be Tiananmin Square II...

Wonder if China will back down on enforcing extradition laws from Hong Kong.

To my knowledge it has only been shelved, not withdrawn, as mass protests broke out against it in Hong Kong.

China is unlikely to give up the suppressing of democratic rules in Hong Kong. Just as it did not give up its demand for Taiwan.

Communists don't give up.

"Ayn Rand described this activity in detail in Atlas Shrugged 62 years ago. "

Yes, and that was her genius.

Foreseeing trends and where they'll lead.

Not at all, because membership is hierarchical and your membership can be revoked by someone higher up in the chain. Rank hath its privileges and no more so than in a stratified society based on power.

isnt that mob rule though?

There is a fascinating study applicable in both international business and politics which maps culture along six axes. See https://geerthofstede.com/culture-gee....

What this shows is that there are indeed a wide variety of fundamental cultural values which vary from nation to nation and affect the very way that such minds operate. Understand such polar opposites? Unlikely. Understand that the differences exist and potentially how to compensate for them? Maybe.

Sure there is. He who is a member of the Communist Party of China makes the rules. ;)

There is no rule of law in china

Boxer and Feinstein? Nothing can be worse and dogmatic than these two, although the Dem party has unlimited supply of the same species, see Harris, Booker, Gillibrand, etc.

Those two however are exceptionally corrosive.

Please excuse grammar errors. Rushed that comment. ;^)

Great information, ffa. Thanks very much!

Will the Occidental brain ever understand the Oriental?

President Barack Obama nominated Koh on the recommendation of California Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Could anyone possibly have a worse pedigree?

Not only is "Judge" Locy Koh an example of everything that is wrong with the just-us system, but she is married to "Judge" Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, and a former official in the Clinton and Obama administrations. Born in Mexico. Cuéllar was a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project, where he co-directed the working group on immigration, borders and refugee policy.
Both "judges" are brainwashed graduates of Harvard; Cuellar also had his brain washed at Yale and Stanford.

Neither "judge" have ever held a productive job or run a business that produces anything.
America couldn't be in worse hands. I won't be surprised when these two are high in the list of comrades to be appointed to US Supreme Court by the next socialist Democrat POTUS.

More evidence of bias and politically driven malfeasance on the part of the Obama administration and Obama appointees.
(More evidence of treason, imo.)

"two Obama-appointed commissioners and a federal district judge effectively decided that they are better equipped to manage wireless network licensing and chipset prices than those who actually produce and purchase the technology."

And more evidence of left-biased organizations manipulating the US "just-us" system to unjustly enrich themselves with unearned wealth and power.

" internal Apple documents describe how, in an effort to “[r]educe Apple’s net royalty to Qualcomm,” Apple planned long before filing suit to “[h]urt Qualcomm financially” and “[p]ut Qualcomm’s licensing model at risk,” by filing lawsuits with claims similar to those of the Federal Trade Commission."

Ayn Rand described this activity in detail in Atlas Shrugged 62 years ago.