An Email to Daughters_2019.8.5
- John Mok
- Sep 4, 2019
- 3 min read
Helen and Lily,
You must have watched and read about Hong Kong in recent weeks. As things have been developing, I think the Hong Kong government has lost its will to govern. I also think that the chief executive here, the head of the government, must have submitted her resignation, but China likely couldn’t find anyone else who either would want the job or is capable of doing the job, so China wouldn’t allow her to leave. It’s a huge mess created by her, just two months earlier, can you believe it?
The massive protest marches in the weekends, eight to nine weekends in a row now since June 9, with hundreds of thousands, up to 2 million people, for each march, mostly on the Hong Kong side, were at one location at a time. In recent days, though, the young protesters, mostly college and high school students, has spread active demonstrations like wildfire to multiple locations at the same time. They have in recent days surrounded different police stations, occupied main thoroughfares, and today, the chief executive’s office, all at the same time. It seems there’s no central organization for all these mass activities, but young people have found their ways, quite efficiently, through social media platforms. Today there are 3 strikes going on now – work strike, business strike and students strike. There’re massive sit-ins at different locations, as well as the more active demonstrations surrounding police stations, the chief executive’s office, and throughways.
10 days ago, I wrote a short article calling the chief executive, the 16 heads of government departments and the police chief to resign all at once, and let Hong Kong people to govern themselves for a while. Now I don’t think it would likely happen. I don’t think the present government, or anyone else who dares to take on the job, could resolve the present problem. The non-governing situation would drag on a little while longer, until some more drastic things happen, then China would call in the army. But since the whole world is watching, with all major international media reporting live when this happens, the whole Western world would then cut ties with China. China would revert back to its cocoon for a short while as an immediate reaction. But the Chinese people have experienced comfortable living conditions for the past 20 years, and have had wide contacts with the Western world. So dissatisfaction and disapproval from the people, together with different political factions within the Communist party would somehow force Xi to resign. The Communist party would realize that it cannot continue its autocratic way of governing, and a more democratic faction would then take over. So eventually, China and Hong Kong would become more democratic in the longer run. This is my prediction now.
I’ve made some progress in video editing. You can see the differences with the following two videos. The one on the Yuen Long march is about something drastic that happened a bit earlier here.
7.27 Yuen Long Protest March
Jeremy Lin's "Don't Give Up" Speech
A couple of hours earlier I saw a plumb little girl who looked like Amaya in the park while I was doing exercise there. How’s she doing? Are you still that busy, Lil? And Helen, is there any progress on the exercise video we were talking? I had a blood test this morning, so I got to get up quite early, and took a picture of the blue sky this morning, per attached.
Love you,
Dad
Hi Daddy,
I've had the task of making a video for you on my to-do list for a while now.
Here's a video on using a roll under your lower back to help release tight back muscles. I think because your bed is so hard, you could do this on your bed; otherwise, you would need to do this on the floor.
As I mention in the video, I suggest lying on the roll for at least 5 minutes daily with deep belly breathing to help release your lower back from its continual flexed position.
I would start with this and see how it makes your back feel.
Let me know how it works for you.
Helen
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