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Chinese tourists allegedly interrupted a protest in Taiwan held by Hong Kongers, knocked down several flags and shouted: “Taiwan and Hong Kong belong to China"

Hong Kong democracy activists were holding a demonstration as Tuesday was China’s National Day.

A video posted online by civic group Hong Kong Outlanders shows a couple, who are allegedly Chinese, during the demonstration.

“Today is China’s National Day, and I won’t allow the displaying of these flags,” the male yells in the video before pushing some demonstrators and knocking down a few flagpoles.

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“Today is to commemorate Hong Kong’s martyrs. We do not celebrate China’s National Day,” it quoted a demonstrator as saying. “We are in Taiwan, and people are free to express their opinion.”

Taiwanese independence advocate Lee Wen-pin (李文賓) and the man reportedly pushed and slapped each other.

“You cannot touch other people’s belongings… We are asking you to leave now,” Lee said, before he called the police.

The man refused to leave and kept saying that “China has sovereignty over Taiwan,” and that “Taiwan and Hong Kong belong to China.”

“Taiwan belongs to Taiwanese, and Hong Kong belongs to Hong Kongers,” the demonstrators said in response.

Later, police officers arrived at the scene and persuaded the couple to leave.

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  • @[email protected]
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    612 months ago

    Hey, what’s the name for a hyper-nationalist state obsessed with heirarchy, irredentism, state-backed industry, and cultural and ethnic hegemony?

  • @rustyfish
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    Traveling to Taiwan to cry about them not being slaves. Someone is going for the social credit combo multiplier.

  • FuglyDuck
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    502 months ago

    Yup! That’ll persuade people,

    • @NateNate60
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      652 months ago

      Chinese nationalists don’t try to persuade people. Their goal is to overpower you (physically or verbally) because they think it will force submission out of you.

      It’s called “Wolf Warrior diplomacy”, named after a popular Chinese military film franchise.

      • Flying SquidM
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        It’s known locally as the “Hexbear Technique.”

        Edit: To the person who flagged this as a low-effort joke, I can’t lie. But I did laugh out loud.

      • FuglyDuck
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        202 months ago

        Doesn’t seem to have worked, either. FTA:

        Later, police officers arrived at the scene and persuaded the couple to leave.

        • @NateNate60
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          Well, nobody ever said Wolf Warrior diplomacy is successful in achieving one’s geopolitical objectives. But it does make the person doing it feel powerful.

  • @[email protected]
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    452 months ago

    Typical entitled behavior from citizens of the world’s most disgusting totalitarian regime.

  • @Treczoks
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    162 months ago

    Just kick them off the island. Literally. Without involving a boat or plane.

      • JackFrostNCola
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        In this case perhaps a catapult would be better, it may be inferior but as such it will involve a longer swim back home to lesser Taiwan

        • @NateNate60
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          12 months ago

          Don’t you mean the “Communist-occupied unfree area of the Republic of China”?

          • @ikidd
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            12 months ago

            Western Taiwan

            • @NateNate60
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              12 months ago

              The term I used is an official term used by the Taiwanese government.

      • @Dkarma
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        22 months ago

        What happened did Israel bomb your son too?

  • @ikidd
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    52 months ago

    If the American tourists don’t get fucking cracking, they’re going to lose their title as “Most annoying foreigners that treat the locals like shit” title to Chinese tourists. I think they’ve already lost that battle in SE Asia.

  • @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    Belong to China

    Wait, don’t you mean, a part of China?

    Cities and counties aren’t property…right?

  • Media Bias Fact CheckerB
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    -62 months ago
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  • @jaybone
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    -202 months ago

    Big dick energy

    • @NateNate60
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      22 months ago

      That’s actually their head, but I can understand why you thought it looked like a dick.