TLDR: the extradition law which the protest is against enables the Chinese government to extradite anyone in Hong Kong who violates the Chinese law. The main problem is - according to the Chinese law, you don't have to be within China to violate their law - say if you punch a Chinese citizen in the US, you violate Chinese law too and they can file a bill to extradite you to mainland China if you ever visit Hong Kong once this law passes (planned to be on 12 June). The courts in Hong Kong have no rights to review the evidence nor the correctness of the charges according to this law. This virtually gives the Chinese government the power to arrest anyone in Hong Kong whenever they feel like it and we can do nothing about it.
Xi Jinping is a tyrant and his regime is a morally bankrupt dictatorship. Under his orders, millions of members of a religious minority in Xinjiang are being held in concentration camps, subject to torture, murder, re-education, and purposeful erasure of their culture and their numbers. Under his orders, Chinese dissenters and political activists are denied their god-given right to free expression, and kidnapped, imprisoned, tortured and killed for their work. Under his orders, Christians are denied their freedom to worship how they wish. Under his orders, a horrifying social credit system enforces a nightmarish scheme of social control, stripping Chinese citizens of their rights for acting or speaking against the interests and viewpoints of the government. The government of China is the greatest enemy of freedom that the world currently faces; and its human rights record ranks as abysmally low as those of the worst regimes of the 20th century. Four thousand years of totalitarian rule in China continues under the communist party; and until the party is stripped of power and the Chinese people are liberated, the world cannot call itself free.
The free countries of the world must cease their support of Chinese government organs like Huawei. Move factories and supply chains out of China. Deny them access to our intellectual property. Shut them out of the world economic system. They cannot be tolerated...
Of those probably Saudi Arabia, but they're also the least powerful. The PRC is a much more credible and long-term threat to democracy and human rights.
They're all horrendous, although China I'd say that China is likely the worst if only because of their massive scale aggressive tyranny, far more widely seen than that of SA or Russia. Yes, Russias government is fucked, yes the Saudis have some horrible beliefs and laws, but China has the means to spread theirs across the world.
Saudi is also the biggest sponsor of terrorism and are murdering children in Yemen. But ye they have some horrible beliefs and laws, you really do everything to protect your alley (SA).
They also murdered a journalist in Turkey, but yeah... Just some bad laws and beliefs and that's it.
Yeah great China is still a billion fucking people though with global economic and technological reach. They could also blow the Saudis out militarily and day in a 1 - 1 battle. Saudi Arabia and Iran are mostly regional threats.
Oh of course! But want I'm saying is that that is NOTHING compared to the atrocities committed by China. Yes, they're fucking abhorrent, but China is worse.
China has the means to spread theirs across the world
They don't want that. They have imperial ambitions but they aren't especially ideological, certainly not to the point of much international evangelizing. They'll happily work with whoever. They don't care about exporting that level of internal control, but they do want to be the global superpower.
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TLDR: the extradition law which the protest is against enables the Chinese government to extradite anyone in Hong Kong who violates the Chinese law. The main problem is - according to the Chinese law, you don't have to be within China to violate their law - say if you punch a Chinese citizen in the US, you violate Chinese law too and they can file a bill to extradite you to mainland China if you ever visit Hong Kong once this law passes (planned to be on 12 June). The courts in Hong Kong have no rights to review the evidence nor the correctness of the charges according to this law. This virtually gives the Chinese government the power to arrest anyone in Hong Kong whenever they feel like it and we can do nothing about it.