It was like any other Saturday evening on the promenade outside the large stadium in Shenzhen, a large Chinese city on the bay that forms the northwestern border of Hong Kong. 'Attention civilians, it is our responsibility to ensure social stability and to protect people's lives and property
It was like any other Saturday evening on the promenade outside the large stadium in Shenzhen, a large Chinese city on the bay that forms the northwestern border of Hong Kong.
"Attention civilians, it is our responsibility to ensure social stability and to protect people's lives and property," the voice shouted in Mandarin Chinese. The warning was then repeated in Cantonese and English. Shenzhen, a migrant metropolis, speaks mainly Mandarin, but its neighbor to south, Hong Kong, speaks Cantonese and English.
ABC News caught a glimpse inside the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center, seeing members of People's Armed Police in civilian clothing, role-playing the Hong Kong protesters, complete with yellow headgear, laser pens and long rods on the soccer pitch, facing off with their uniformed compatriots, who were advancing with riot shields and flags.
Ever since Beijing upped the ante of possible direct intervention, the world has been holding its collective breath to see if they will or won't send boots on the ground into Hong Kong. "Deng Xiaoping pointed out long ago, 'If there is turmoil, the central government will intervene.' The Basic Law [Hong Kong's mini constitution] and the Garrison Law have already made corresponding provisions. This is the power of the Central Government and the responsibility of the Central Government," the editorial reads.
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