Asian studies blog

The protests in Hong Kong have been going on since March 2019 and were initially ignited out of opposition to absorption into mainland china legislation being pushed by Carrie Lam, Hong Kong Chief executive. Since then it has evolved into something much greater then what was initially intended but with the current outbreak of the Corona Virus, it has added new challenges to the protest. There have already been 8 deaths and 100 confirmed cases of the virus. The main issue people in Hong Kong have with this current situation is that they feel the Hong Kong government is not taking the necessary steps to protect the people. Despite the current state of Emergency there is still travel allowed between Hong Kong and Mainland China, it has not been cut off.  Despite this, the virus has brought some unity to the democracy and establishment camps in their disapproval of the government's response. They feel that allowing thousands of people in and out of Hong Kong every day will only make th...

Recently there is been a new outbreak of a serious virus in China, It is a mysterious virus that has already killed 17 people as of January 22. 570 people have been infected by this Coronavirus. Despite the suddenness of this virus this is not China’s first time experiencing An outbreak in recent times. 17 years ago China dealt with the Sars virus and has been described as being as influential to China as 9/11 was influential to the USA. With the history of the stars virus the Chinese government has taken many steps to improve infrastructure to make sure a outbreak like that can’t ever happen again on that scale. Yet this new outbreak has come to worldwide attention and it appears that Beijing is trying to silence and censor some news outlets covering the epidemic or diminish the severity of the situation. Why would they do that. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/business/virus-corona.html

 Protest in Hong Kong have continued and during the Christmas and holiday season there has been further protest.  Carrie lam the leader of Hong Kong has said that these protest have ruin the holiday and Christmas season for their citizens. The protesters acted by occupying and blocking commercial malls in other areas of shopping. Police continue to label the protesters as writers enabling a justification to use excessive force against the protesters.  Critics of the police and lame argue that there has been repeated offenses of excessive force against protesters while the former maintains that they use the minimal amount of force necessary.  It amazes me how these protests have evolved and continued overtime despite achieving some of their initial goals the protest has grown to be much more .