Well, not all of it. Mainly the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where the HKPD is busy attacking with tear gas and bean bag guns.
Why is this important? A couple reasons.
First, the CUHK is where the island’s internet exchanges are located. Anyone in control of that is effectively in control of the lines of communication going in/out of the island.
Second, this attack (and make no mistake, its looking like a full-on assault) violates every promise the HKPD has made to the university administration and students. There are reports the University President himself has been targeted with tear gas.
Third, this crosses a line that even the People’s Liberation Army didn’t even approach during or after the Tienanmen Massacre (that is, marching into a university campus directly and turn it into a war zone). There are claims that “terrorists lit a fire” on the campus, which prompted this intervention, but its a tad hard to give credence to this, especially given the size, scale, and violence of said intervention.
Is this an indication of things to come here in the States? Possibly, and its not as if the US doesn’t have its own ugly history of State violence against student protestors. My alma mater of Kent State is a bloody monument to this fact.
Ultimately, that’s up to we the people. Here’s hoping we have courage equal to those students on the other side of the planet.
ps: sorry for the lack of a front-picture. I’m still trying to work out how to load one.