Source: Brigada Today, June 23, 2019<\/p>\n
Our friend Doug Lucas writes:<\/p>\n
You know, to me, one of the hardest geographical challenges in the world is figuring out the mystery that is Hong Kong. How could a piece of China be a British colony\u2014then not so much. And what happens when all these citizens fight so hard to become so Western, then they suddenly are reattached to mainland China, so mainland China pretends to let them remain as a special economic zone, but then, not?<\/p>\n
And then, most recently, the CEO of Hong Kong (appointed by mainland China) sets about to pass a new set of laws that would extradite Hong Kong citizens who were activists, advocates, and even foreign nationals into mainland China\u2014so as many as [a fourth] of the entire population took to the streets in protest.<\/p>\n
So finally, the CEO drops the proposed law (for now), but people keep demonstrating. And one of the main \u201cunofficial anthems\u201d of the entire protest is the song, \u201cSing Hallelujah to the Lord.\u201d Learn more about the protest\u2014and the anthem<\/a> (Japan Times).<\/p>\n How can all this be? Would somebody please explain Hong Kong to us? Do you know of an article or book that makes this easy? If so, please help us out here.<\/p>\n \u00bb Read full story and add your comments<\/a>. Asian Access also offers a good take on how to pray<\/a> and Voice of the Martyrs shares another perspective<\/a> (Mission Network News). For a sense of the protest scale, check out Flowing Data\u2019s mashup of aerial photos<\/a>. Amazing.<\/p>\n \u00bb In other China news, an update from Asia Harvest reports the persecution of Christians is now nationwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Brigada Today, June 23, 2019 Our friend Doug Lucas writes: You know, to me, one of the hardest geographical challenges in the world is figuring out the mystery that is Hong Kong. How could a piece of China be a British colony\u2014then not so much. And what happens when all these citizens fight so … Continue reading CHINA: Can You Help Us Figure Out Hong Kong?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8654,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652\/revisions\/8654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}