Generational Dynamics World View

[John J. Xenakis]

** 03-Nov-2019 World View: Hong Kong knife attacker bites politician's ear off

• Alleged attacker after being beaten by crowd and saved
  by police (SCMP)

Sunday was another day of high drama in Hong Kong. There were clashes
all day long between pro-democracy protesters and riot police, but
generally speaking there was less violence and chaos on Sunday than
there had been on Saturday.

But then in early evening, the drama began. A man yelled something
like "liberate Taiwan" or "reclaim Taiwan and Hong Kong" in Mandarin,
and shouted other pro-CCP slogans. In Hong Kong, Mandarin can be
thought of as the language of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), while
Cantonese can be thought of the language of the protesters.

The attacker than pulled out a knife and wounded at least five people,
leaving at least two in critical condition. Andrew Chiu Ka-yin, a
local pro-democracy councillor, tried to subdue the guy with the
knife, but the attacker then bit Chiu's ear off.

The crowd then started beating the crap out of the guy with the knife,
until the police came and saved him.

Tensions between Mandarin-speaking northern China and
Cantonese-speaking southern China continue to grow, raising growing
concerns in the CCP of a full-scale anti-government rebellion, as
happened in the Taiping Rebellion (1852-64), and Mao's Communist
Revolution (1934-49). However, the CCP officials have no idea what to
do about it, but we can be sure that whatever they do will only make
the situation worse.

---- Sources:

-- Blood spilled over political differences in Hong Kong, with six
hurt as knife-wielding man attacks family after argument
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/poli...er-sha-tin
(South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, 3-Nov-2019)

-- Politician's ear bitten off during knife attack in Hong Kong
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/n...-hong-kong
(AFP, 3-Nov-2019)


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