We said it would happen, and it has happened.
The Trends Journal is the only magazine that has analyzed the COVID War, launched by China on its Lunar New Year 2020, and forecast China would use it as a means to end the ongoing Hong Kong demonstrations, which began on 31 March 2019, when millions took to the streets in protest of a new law that would allow criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China for prosecution.
We have reported in detail on the protests since then, and Gerald Celente was a guest on Hong Kong television a number of times to report on the movement, what it signified to the rest of the world, and where the trends were heading.
As confirmed in the Trends Journal, Celente had reported that when the coronavirus broke out in Wuhan Province in China, Beijing would use it to lock down other provinces including Hong Kong. He noted that until the COVID lockdowns, despite numerous efforts to stop the protests, China and its Hong Kong-sympathetic politicians were unable to do so.
The ouster of four pro-democracy legislators last week in Hong Kong, which prompted the resignation of all of their like-minded colleagues while appearing to illustrate a unified approach, did absolutely nothing to slow the pro-Beijing members of the body that went full-speed ahead with new meetings.
Reuters reported that Hong Kong’s government, which is backed by Beijing, expelled the four lawmakers, alleging they endangered national security. Many of these lawmakers are still bitter with Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, who, by her actions and statements since the protests began, has completely supported Beijing. Ms. Lam was also a strong proponent of Beijing’s power grab national-security law on the city that was passed last summer.
TREND FORECAST: Robert O’Brien, the U.S. national security advisor, said in a statement last Wednesday that the “One Country, Two Systems” is now “merely a fig leaf covering for the CCP’s expanding one-party dictatorship in Hong Kong.”
The BBC pointed out that in July, shortly after the announcement of the national security law, President Trump said Hong Kong “will be treated the same as mainland China. No special privileges, no special economic treatment, and no export of sensitive technologies.”
The Trends Journal forecasts that whoever is officially declared the next U.S. president, it will make no difference. China will do what it wants to rule Hong Kong. And with the rest of the world fighting the COVID War, what’s going on there and what it means will not be making mainstream news or political discussion.
And with the business of China being business (unlike the U.S., where for the past several decades the business of America is war), China will maintain Hong Kong’s status as one of the world’s most important international financial centers… despite some of its market share moving to Singapore.
