{"id":1216663,"date":"2022-01-14T14:50:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T19:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216663"},"modified":"2022-01-14T14:50:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T19:50:46","slug":"quick-march-hong-kong-police-adopt-goose-step-in-drive-for-extra-patriotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/quick-march-hong-kong-police-adopt-goose-step-in-drive-for-extra-patriotism\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick March! Hong Kong Police Adopt Goose-Step in Drive for Extra &#039;Patriotism&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fquick-march-hong-kong-police-adopt-goose-step-in-drive-for-extra-patriotism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216663&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) has been ordered to adopt Chinese goose-stepping drills in place of its traditional UK military step, as inherited after the transfer of sovereignty to Communist China in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The order from Beijing has been made to lift \u201cpatriotism\u201d among domestic security forces and will be enforced until morale improves.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a statement released to the press, the HKPF said it expects the change to \u201cfoster love for our motherland and Hong Kong\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The first demonstration of the goose-step was rolled out on the 15th of April 2021&nbsp;during Hong Kong\u2019s \u2018National Security Education Day\u2019 to celebrate a new law which cracked down on&nbsp; perceived \u201cdissent\u201d in the administrative area.<\/p>\n<p>From the 1st of July 2022 goose-stepping will become part of the HKPF daily routines to mark 25 years since the once Britain-run colony was signed over to Communist China, <em>France 24<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220114-hong-kong-police-switch-to-goose-stepping-to-show-patriotism\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Hong Kong pro-democracy group known for organizing the city\u2019s annual Tiananmen Square vigil disbanded on Saturday, citing political pressure from pro-China forces in Hong Kong\u2019s government. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9NkHphapzn\">https:\/\/t.co\/9NkHphapzn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1442698733095989251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is unclear how autonomous this decision to adopt the goose-step was from the Hong Kong police, as representatives from China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army have been training local forces in how to perform the march since February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>If this was a direct order from China, this new marching technique could be a <a href=\"https:\/\/researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk\/documents\/CBP-8616\/CBP-8616.pdf\">breach<\/a> of the Sino-British Joint Declaration signed in 1984, which only allows China to have control over Hong Kong\u2019s foreign affairs and defence.<\/p>\n<p>There have been several other breaches of the irrevocable Sino-British agreement, with China now choosing to disregard it, claiming it is \u201cnow history\u201d as well as calling it \u201cridiculous for the UK to pose itself as a supervisor\u2026 on Hong Kong affairs\u201d \u2013 however the Sino-British agreement is still a legally binding United Nations document.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19487098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/hong-kong-police.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19487098 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/hong-kong-police.jpg\" alt=\"ub-Inspector Margaret Patrick (right) oversees the training of fifty-five female recruits to the Hong Kong Police Force, at the Aberdeen Police Training School, Hong Kong, January 1957. (Photo by Keystone Features\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)\" width=\"818\" height=\"614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sub-Inspector Margaret Patrick (right) oversees the training of recruits to the Hong Kong Police Force, at the Aberdeen Police Training School, Hong Kong, January 1957. (Keystone Features\/Hulton Archive\/Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_19487194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-3378738.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19487194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-3378738-1024x836-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A traffic policeman in 1960 amongst the double-decker buses on Nathan Road, the main street cutting through Hong Kong\u2019s Kowloon district. (Richard Harrington\/Three Lions\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Arguably the most prominent breach of the document was the Chinese crackdown on protestors and anti-Communist China sentiments in Hong Kong with their brutally totalitarian \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/31\/2021-the-year-democracy-died-in-hong-kong\/\">national security law.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The law allowed police to round up anyone China felt to be problematic and accused them of \u201csecession\u201d or \u201cterrorism\u201d, which meant they would be tried by the Communist Party not local Hong Kong officials.<\/p>\n<p>The National Security Law managed to destroy&nbsp;mainstream largely student-led anti-tyranny and pro-democracy protest movements in Hong Kong, which at one point numbered in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2019\/06\/17\/photos-hong-kong-nearly-doubles-anti-china-protest-size-to-2-million-largest-in-history\/\">millions,<\/a>&nbsp;as the leaders of these protests were rounded up and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/hong-kong-democracy-leaders-jailed-over-umbrella-movement-protests\/\">sentenced<\/a> in kangaroo courts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong, including Joshua Wong, are calling on moviegoers to boycott Disney&#8217;s live-action&nbsp;&#8216;Mulan&#8217; over actress Liu Yifei&#8217;s past comment in which she supported Communist China&#8217;s crackdown on demonstrators.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PXCEl60AkU\">https:\/\/t.co\/PXCEl60AkU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1303147924537384960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This resulted in hundreds of students pulling out of Hong Kong universities and fleeing overseas due to fears of facing time in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-communist newspapers were raided and forcibly shut down by the Hong Kong police under similar charges and opposition politicians were expelled or arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) has been ordered to adopt Chinese goose-stepping drills in place of its traditional UK military step, as inherited after the transfer of sovereignty to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}