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Hong Kong
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Published: August 6, 2019
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Inspired by all the amazing photos from the protests in Hong Kong. They are fighting for their freedom and democracy against China’s encroaching totalitarian rule.

As someone born in China and having seen all the horrendous abuse of power that happens without democracy, my heart is with the people of Hong Kong. I hope they will achieve their goals of freedom and inspire others to also fight for their rights to democracy.

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IronKanaboProfessional Filmographer

The debate is very alive between Chinese people and those of the West. Nearly everyone in China now has legal access to VPN and the Chinese economy has become so dependent on it that it couldn't be banned even if they tried. It's fascinating to hear the arguments that break out, there are a lot of points I've never heard made before.

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Sakura-ShinRaHobbyist General Artist
I love this!  Stay strong Hong Kong, there's a lot of people from around the world who support you!! 
TheCreatorOf4's avatar
Wasn't a fan of "If a tree grows..." because it honestly fell flat. What was meant to be deep, felt completely shallow.
If I don't like your comics, it is because your story telling skills need work.

But I was hoping to see something from you, for HK.
You were the one person I would not have forgiven if you didn't do any work for.

I hope to see more in the future.
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SpottedTalon7Hobbyist Digital Artist
beautiful and powerful! solidarity from the US Huggle! 
alexrees's avatar
Beautiful and powerful! I hope for freedom to win in the end.
Vanijali's avatar
I'm surprised this is so controversial. Great image.
LightyOle's avatar
LightyOleHobbyist Digital Artist
I'm disappointed that you should be on their side. I guess the sheer sound of democracy appeals to the Americans and it doesn't matter if it's the truth or only a sham. Please go forward with your environment projects in your country; that was at least beneficial.
danlev's avatar

Beautiful illustration! Sad... but beautifully captured. ❤

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jellyluuNew Deviant

Ridiculous,they do not recognize the Hong Kong regional flag,which you draw on the picture. They are holding the American flag. They fight for democracy? NO.

You are too naive.

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EverOceansNew Deviant
I always appreciate your artwork, your use of color is amazing.

Though I have to remind you something.

When you drew that picture, it may seems that they are fighting for their freedom and independence. I support that too, though I am Chinese. They have their rights.
But later it turned out that they are just a group of rioters, who use violence to fight for money(as long as they appear on the street to protest, they get paid. Weird.),and their leader claimed that they are fight for America.

I see your idea in your artworks, protest and fight for ones own sake and own freedom. That's noble. Unfortunately, those people who fight under the support of foreign funds, not themselves. They sacrifice not themselves, but other ordinary people's life and business. They fight not for themselves, but for money and other regime. And it's not like your artwork, they are not heroes who stand out against police, they actually taunt and trying to harm the police in the first place.

So while I do admire your work, I feel sorry for you. They surely are a disgrace to your work and ideology.

Edit    BTW, the police haven't use force nor brutal approach to deal with so-called "protesters" so far. Funny thing is, the protesters cause most of the injuries, and on both sides.
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vampirekikiHobbyist Traditional Artist
Great artwork~
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ZetaSyanthisHobbyist Writer
Hoping the same. <3
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MoirBlancHobbyist General Artist
I really admire your art and the messages behind them, I really do. However, this is just something I am really annoyed by. These "protestors" were supposedly fighting against an extradition bill that they didn't even understand what this bill was even about. This extradition amendment bill WAS a bill that was supposed to fix a loophole wherein an actual murderer escaped from Taiwan to Hong Kong. He was able to do this because there was no extradition agreement between the two regions at the time. Legal experts agreed and it was understood by both Hong Kong and Taiwanese authorities that if he were to be arrested on murder charges, there needed to be a special amendment created for this case. In this amendment bill, they'd already built in barriers to prevent Mainland China from extraditing political prisoners, on the basis that the prisoners had to be extradited on crimes that are chargeable on both sides of the border. In addition, the SAR courts would have had to review it if it involved political persecution. Sounds reasonable to me, yet these idiots didn't do their research and decided to set HK on fire. This bill is now dead, and now murderers can walk free in HK. Yay, murder party! The violence only got worse from there on. All the Western news media that we see are also biased and claim this is a fight for the greater good, but is it really? The protestor who lost an eye was injured before the police even got there. Chinese reporters who only came to HK to report the events were attacked and the police had to save them! Do you really think this is the only instance of "protestors" clashing with police? What about France and the Yellow-Vest Movement? Ferguson was worse than this! The protestors were actually peaceful, but the police still attacked them. What's happening in HK aren't protests, these are riots. 

People say this is a fight for Democracy and Freedom, but is it really? In one instance, an elderly gentleman knocked down a placard because he didn't agree with the "protestors". What did they do in response? Circled him, yelling insults, and physically assaulted him. This is Democracy? This is what people fight for? This is the ideal government structure that people want? Crushing opposing opinions and unjustly hurting those who disagree? This is NOT Democracy in any sense of the word! This is  CHAOS!! If this is what all of you want and what Democracy stands for, then count me out.

I am Chinese American, born under the banner of democracy and this is ridiculous. Do your research, look up unbiased news reports or the original source on this topic. Look, I understand that the Chinese government has a bad rep of abusing power, but the US ain't that great either. Look who we have as president and what he has done. He has placed a climate change denier in charge of the EPA, he has put children of illegal immigrants in cages, and shootings have happened that were inspired by his white supremacist rhetoric. All of this and more in a supposed democratic country. This isn't our problem to begin with and yet we are poking our noses in a domestic problem. 

P.S. You want to talk about corruption, take a look at your own government and tell me if there is no damn corruption. Make sure your own house is clean first before criticizing how your neighbor cleans their house.
SDRF03's avatar
Before you draw this you'd better see something more than what BBC tell you
As a Chinese I just want to let you know they are asking for some "freedom" they even didn't get from British when they are colony with the command of CIA, with illegal action againt goverment and most of citizen who just want to live in peace,something you won't like to know beacuse you are already not live in China anymore

BTW, they can't win at all, and what I can tell you is in other part of China, even they can know what happend in HK,even some people tell them what you "Chinese" said on the Social network(someting like
 fight for their rights to democracy) ,they just don't care about it anymore, HK is not important to China today,even Beijing goverment also not willing to action this time(you can find they even didn't care about we talk about this in China)

Maybe you still think I represent the "not democracy" part of the Chinese, that's ok,you want to fight with those ruffians that's also not a problem, beacuse when Beijing find you HK is really want to cross the line, they just need to cut the water and power(they all come from Chinese goverment) take all PLA and all the Police froce back to China, then you can find you "democracy" is game over
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jackylklStudent Traditional Artist

Someone in the field of freedom is pissed off because others are fighting for their own freedom, interesting...

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JugboteryHobbyist Digital Artist
This government bot is Savage :0
SDRF03's avatar
Nope, I'm not the fan of this government, I even didn't jion the Communist Youth League of China(almost everyone had to but I refused),but I hate those guy who occupied the metro and airfield, disturb other people‘s live and call themselves fighters of democracy.
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Maybe a communism isn't so "democracy"as you want to see,sometimes it can also make us, the Chinese still live in China feel bad, but in HK you don't have a chance to get it out of China and become a new country, goverments won't let that happen people won't let it happen, PLA won't let it happen, nice try, but the winners won't be you.
As what I said, even Beijing get all the froce and government out of HK, leave HK to people who live there, let HK become a new country, then charge the power and water like they are supplying another country,or even cut it, what will happen?
HK civial war, then PLA just take HK back as everyone want to.
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sparrowsfriendHobbyist Writer
a worthy tribute to an amazing people in a truly noble cause!
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stizzlmHobbyist Artist
Good.
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FallenAngelGMHobbyist Writer
Powerful and vibrant!
Amberlcz's avatar
The innocent guys protested for daily salary not for democracy lolllll.
zfragger's avatar
I'm not going to lie. As much as I want the people of Hong Kong to win there is a part of me that knows that any perceived attempt by the people of Hong Kong to embarrass Beijin will be meet with enough gun fire that would make the d-day invasion of Europe look like a practice range for mall cops.
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