How frustrating not being able to use violence.

Another death in Hong Kong. This time a 70 year old cleaner, who was taking a break from work, died after being hit on the head by a hard object, apparently thrown by protesters. Four days back a student was shot by a police officer when violence followed the death of a student who had fallen from a ledge in a car park. It is not known how he came to be on the ledge and why he fell, but, such is the animosity against the police, that protesters assumed that the police are somehow responsible. "In a separate incident, a man who confronted a group of pro-democracy protesters was doused in a flammable liquid and set alight" according to a video seen on social media. "The video shows an unidentified and unarmed man shouting expletives at protesters before saying 'you're all not Chinese'." This incident was an excuse for the government to harden its stance. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said, "If there is any wishful thinking that by escalating violence the (Hong Kong) government will yield to pressure to satisfy protesters' so-called demands, I'm making this clear that will not happen." Fearing for their safety, students from the mainland were evacuated by boat by the Hong Kong police as roadblocks made roads too dangerous. Chinese banks have had their windows smashed and Chinese businesses set alight. In a rare comment, China President Xi Jinping said that protesters have "seriously challenged the baseline principle of 'one country, two systems'". On a visit to Nepal last month Xi Jinping warned, "Anyone attempting to split China in any part of the country will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones. And any external forces backing such attempts at dividing China will be deemed by the Chinese people as pipe-deeming." Xi must be taken seriously because the Communist Party has absolute power and does not hesitate to use it against children of Muslim Uighurs or to harvest organs from healthy Falun Gong followers, and Uighurs. China has ruthlessly violated the 'one country, two systems' principle by preventing elections, kidnapping booksellers for publishing books critical of the leadership and passing a law to extradite Hong Kong residents to the mainland. So why has China refrained from crushing bodies and shattering bones? Because, it is offering the same 'one country, two systems' fairy tale to Taiwan. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen ruled out any merger with Beijing and "shattered bones" in Hong Kong will rule out any hope of ever uniting the two nations. Taiwan may have voted for Tsai Ing-wen because of the bullying of a 16 year-old pop star who displayed the Taiwanese flag on her blog. Without any crushing of bodies by Beijing and not allowed to compromise with the protesters, Carrie Lam is using the police to subdue the protests, infuriating the students even further. Xi must have felt humiliated having to scrap the extradition bill.  Violence is his only weapon and he can't use it. Xi must be the most frustrated man in the world. How enjoyable.