Update from the front line ...
Heart-warming. The trump is right, again.
Last night the trump said Hong Kong doing fine, shall take care of business, and the trade deal is a good for team Hong Kong.
I understood that rioters intend to be a nuisance and hiccup traffic through the Aberdeen tunnel, starting possibly as early as 3:00pm. I must either use the tunnel to get to and from town or go the long way around. Given that I must have my weekly fix of Ding Tai Fung’s organic free-range chicken soup, soy/scallion oil noodle, and other delicious fixes, I decided to visit causeway bay and sense the social temperature.
I report all rapidly improving and good. Happy shopping and eating crowds, content shop-keepers, taxi drivers, and people who wish to work diligently. Girls as pretty as ever. Oldsters as energetic as always. Not a policeman in sight. Crowds ... and as the MTR station is closed, astounding. The deep faith is awe inspiring.
Monday, doubtless capital asset pricing model, underpinned by almost-negative discount rate, should do magic, gentle incline, upward, from lower left to upper right.
The demonstrators defended Hong Kong. The rioters made a hard point. The authorities learned the line.
Forever Greater Bay! Would not miss the movement for anything.
Just fantabulous.
bloomberg.com
Trump Says Hong Kong Protest Movement Will ‘Take Care of Itself’ Soon
Josh WingroveOctober 12, 2019, 5:06 AM GMT+8
Riot police stand in front of a cloud of tear gas during a protest in Hong Kong on Oct. 6, 2019.
Photographer: Justin Chin/BloombergPartial trade deal is ‘very positive’ for Hong Kong: Trump
President Donald Trump said in an Oval Office meeting with China’s vice premier that he thinks protests in Hong Kong are winding down and that a partial trade accord the two leaders reached on Friday will be a “great deal” for the city’s residents.
“We discussed Hong Kong and I think great progress has been made by China in Hong Kong, and I’ve been watching and I actually told the vice premier it really has toned down a lot from the initial days of a number of months ago when I saw a lot of people, and I see far fewer now,” Trump told reporters Friday.
Donald Trump meets with Liu He in the Oval Office on Oct. 11.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
The president said of the demonstrations, “I think that’s going to take care of itself. I actually think this deal is a great deal for the people of Hong Kong to see what happened. I think this is a very positive thing for Hong Kong.”
There’s a “love fest” taking place between and Beijing and Washington, he added.
Hong Kong is bracing for another weekend of protests even as the city continued to clean up from a destructive wave of demonstrations last week that shut down malls, supermarkets and much of the transit system. The protests began June 9 in opposition to Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s now-withdrawn legislation that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China.
Since then, the demonstrations have evolved into a push for greater democracy.
The issue jumped into the forefront of U.S. debate over the past week after the general manager of the Houston Rockets basketball team tweeted support for the anti-Beijing protesters. The tweet was quickly deleted, but it triggered a backlash from Chinese companies and fans, leading to an exhibition game on Thursday not being aired or streamed in China. |
