ADVERTISEMENTBut he added that Hong Kong police have already responded with “disproportionate force” to the protests. Chinese paramilitary forces have deployed to the Chinese city of Shenzhen, just outside Hong Kong, since the protests began in June. Neither they nor the thousands of Chinese military troops garrisoned in Hong Kong itself have been deployed to confront the protesters so far. “The people here understand that how the Chinese government treats Hong Kong is going to be the future way of them treating Taiwan. That agreement allowed Hong Kong to keep its civil liberties, independent courts and capitalist system, though many in Hong Kong accuse Beijing of undermining those freedoms under President Xi Jinping.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 10, 2019 12:45 UTC