Em edit để cmt thêm về anh bạn chị mà k kịp :P Anh bạn chị giống với khá nhiều người gốc HK di dân khắp nơi trên thế giới, dù lựa chọn rời đi, hay do bố mẹ lựa chọn thay mình, thì họ đều cảm thấy mình nợ HK, vì đã chọn từ bỏ quê hương. Có bài viết về vấn đề này luôn á chị, chị đọc qua chưa?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/01/once-we-voted-with-our-feet-now-its-time-us-speak-up-hong-kong/
Once, we voted with our feet. Now, it’s time for us to speak up for Hong Kong.

Those of us who left — the hundreds of thousands who are now Americans, Canadians, Australians and others — amount to the biggest indictment of Beijing and its political model. No one wants to admit abandoning our homeland, but that’s what we did — or, if we were too young to do it ourselves, our parents did it because they didn’t trust the Communist Party. Surveys from the time showed half the city wanted to leave if given the chance, motivated by political uncertainty.
None of us who chose to uproot our lives knew with any certainty how we’d fare. For some years, it was perilously touch and go whether my family would achieve the American Dream. But moving to a foreign country, apparently, was less of a gamble for my risk-averse father than staying behind in Hong Kong.
I will speak only for myself, but watching young Hongkongers fighting for their future, and sensing the agony of usually orderly citizens driven to take increasingly extreme and violent measures to preserve the city’s rights — I suspect many of us have never felt worse seeing our difficult decision to leave validated. Our families had hoped for the best but prepared for the worst, recognizing the fundamentally irreconcilable pairing of a closed, authoritarian society with an open, liberal one.

Chị lillov vẫn còn sức để update hả? High-five cho chị, chứ em thì từ bỏ rồi :))
Em đọc cmt trên đây có mấy cái cũng không khác là bao so với cmt của mấy đứa trẻ trâu mà em từng tranh cãi với chúng nó cách đây mấy tháng trên facebook :)) Ai có nhu cầu, có quan tâm thì tự người ta sẽ tìm đc thông tin tin cậy để tìm hiểu, còn ngồi nghe hơi nồi chõ để chém gió cho sướng miệng thì tranh cãi mất thời gian mà chả đc gì. Mục đích khác nhau cách tiếp cận sẽ khác, riết em chả buồn nói, chả buồn update :p
Cái vụ QH Mỹ thông qua cái dự luật ý, bạn em nó chúc mừng rần rần trên fb :)) Em chỉ cười thôi :)) G7, G8 các loại lên tiếng từ những ngày đầu biểu tình còn rất hòa bình là TQ nó đem tiền & rào ra chắn trước cửa HK liền. Hành động nào thực tế thì may ra còn trông chờ chứ kiểu lo lắng với quan ngại này ở VN em quen rồi :))
Btw, tình cờ trưa nay em lướt qua bài báo này, tự dưng lại chảy nước mắt... OccupyCentral & Antielab thật sự đã tạo ra mâu thuẫn trong những gia đình có các bạn trẻ đi biểu tình. Nhưng có mâu thuẫn nào vượt qua được tình yêu của bố mẹ đâu. Rồi cũng đến lúc họ nhận ra tại sao con cái của mình chấp nhận hiểm nguy để dấn thân. Thà muộn còn hơn không :x
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/19/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-parents.html
Parents of Besieged Hong Kong Protesters Come to the Front Lines
One mother fell to her knees before riot police officers and begged for her daughter’s release. Another promised she would boil soup for a trapped son before he made a desperate escape across police lines. From a distance, a father got his first glimpse of his son in days — as the son was led away in handcuffs.
As the police siege of Hong Kong Polytechnic University trapped more than 1,000 pro-democracy protesters this week, another group entangled in the city’s crisis has turned conspicuously outspoken: their parents.
The voices of mothers and fathers, racked by fear and anger, emerged as a call for compromise in the standoff on the campus, where on Tuesday several dozen holdouts remained.
Many parents worried not only about the safety of students in Hong Kong’s increasingly violent protests, but also about the longer-term consequences for young adults whose lives could now be upended by abruptly truncated educations, criminal charges and prison.

Teachers and relatives waited for student protesters to surrender at Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Tuesday.Credit...Thomas Peter/Reuters
At the same time, parents said their exposure to the police tactics — some have seen police beatings or been hit with nonlethal projectiles themselves in the mayhem — had made them more sympathetic to their children’s choices to defy and resist.

“Before, I wondered whether some things the protesters, or those who appeared to be protesters, did cross a line. But now I have a deeper understanding of why they had to use those tactics,” said Mr. Ho, adding that he had been most worried that the police would hit and kick his daughter. Video footage of a number of arrests outside the campus showed police officers beating detained students.
Mr. Ho was so distraught on the first night that he joined three parents in a wild rescue bid. The group scaled a high chain-link fence to get onto campus, but abandoned their attempt after one was shot by the police with a beanbag round and tumbled into the bushes.
Being close to the action changed Mr. Ho’s thinking on the petrol bombs that protesters were hurling toward riot officers. “The Molotov cocktails they throw are mainly to create a distance from the police,” he said.
Mr. Ho was one of a few hundred parents, many with students inside, who sat near police lines wearing masks and holding signs with messages like “Save the kids, don’t kill our children” and “They are children of God! Let them go!” Many said they had come out simply to be close to their children inside the campus, just hundreds of feet away.
At a news conference they held on Tuesday, the parents made pleas to the Hong Kong authorities, questioning the uncompromising language that has become standard in the city’s political impasse.
Several criticized the authorities for having labeled everyone on campus as rioters. For months, Hong Kong’s police and government, along with China’s state news media, have used the term “rioter” to describe protesters, whether peaceful or violent.

Parents held a news conference on Tuesday in which they made pleas to the Hong Kong authorities.Credit...Ye Aung Thu/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Eva Lau, a 51-year-old businesswoman, said that while she had attended peaceful marches, she disagreed with her 22-year-old son over his attendance at protests that descend into violence and vandalism. On Sunday evening, as fiery clashes between protesters and the police at PolyU escalated, her son said he wanted to attend the pro-peace prayer meeting at the school.
When she tried to dissuade him, she said, he told her that “if everyone thought like you, then no one would be left to protest anymore.”
A native of Hunan Province in mainland China who came to Hong Kong in the mid-1980s, Ms. Lau said that she was skeptical of both ends of the political spectrum in the city, but that she had come to favor the pro-democratic camp.
She also told of a recent encounter of her own with the police. As she walked past a street clash one night, officers shined their flashlights at her, an act that prompted her to yell at them, “I used to have a great deal of respect for you, but now I have firsthand reason not to.”
For her son, Ms. Lau said she hoped he would learn that there are better ways to fight injustice. Still, she said she had been thinking of rejoining the protests.
“I am against all violence, even from the kids,” she said. “But now I can see that they are being strategic in order to fight authoritarianism — and trying to resist the government.”