Hong Kong continues to protest calls for support from young people to the international community August 17th 5:15

In Hong Kong, where protests continue, large-scale demonstrations are being called for this weekend, and the university student council meets on the evening of the 16th, calling on the US and other international communities to support protests. It was.

In Hong Kong, protests have been ongoing for more than two months over a draft ordinance that will allow suspects to be handed over to mainland China.

On the night of the 16th, the university student council held a protest rally in a park in the center of Hong Kong Island. The organizer announced that 60,000 people participated and the surrounding roads overflowed.

Student council representatives alleged that the United States imposed sanctions to freeze authorities' assets and review trade incentives when human rights and freedoms were violated in Hong Kong.

In addition, a video of a British lawmaker calling "We are with Hong Kong" was screened, and those who gathered gave support to the international community to support the protest, saying "Get back Hong Kong". I was calling.

A 25-year-old woman who participated said, “The government does not hear us, so I want to raise the level of action and appeal to the international community.”

In Hong Kong, protests have been called for in various locations on the 17th, and on the 18th, democratic organizations are planning a large-scale demonstration march, and the police and the police are also informing that the participants and police There is concern that there may be a collision with

There are armed police vehicles in the stadium in Shenzhen, China.

The army police under the command of the Chinese army are gathered at the Shenzhen stadium in Guangdong, China, adjacent to Hong Kong, but the NHK coverage team seems to be armed police around the stadium on the 16th I confirmed a lot of vehicles.

In the vicinity of the stadium, vehicles such as trucks painted in green were parked, and many members wearing camouflage clothes came and gone, and some members also had protective shields and sheaths. This shows that there is a suppression training for demonstrators.

China's Foreign Ministry feels uncomfortable with US presidential tweets

On Hong Kong situation, playing the president of the United States is 15 days, in Twitter "Xi Jinping Jintao directly, if meet with people who are doing the protests, would be resolved in Hong Kong of the problem is properly good shape," written and The Chinese Foreign Ministry's spokesman Hua Chun-an released a comment on the night of the 16th. “Currently, the most urgent task is to stop violence and confusion and restore order based on the law.”

Even in Australia

In Melbourne, Australia, an effort was made to show support for protests in Hong Kong on the 16th, but international students from mainland China and the people who support the position of the Chinese government invaded to stop this have become.

In the local footage posted on the Internet, people who are opposed to the response of the Hong Kong government and the police gathered in front of the local library, and those who supported the Chinese government's position as they protested, In addition to seeing the national flag and singing the national anthem loudly, you can see how they are trying to stop the activity, and people from both sides are also arguing.

As for the situation in Hong Kong, calls to show support to the Chinese government and the Hong Kong government among the people in mainland China in a form against the protesting citizens are spreading on the Internet. There seems to be a possibility that people's conflict will deepen in various places.