[Garfie]

I'm so concerned at what today will bring.

I can't imagine how horrendous it must be as a Hong Kong student at the moment, knowing that your destiny is to be ruled by China by the time you reach middle age, and knowing that your children will be condemned to a hateful future.

I wish the international community would do something to help Hong Kong to achieve total independence from China. Thus is surely a time when morals should come before money. How can the Western world stand by and do nothing to help?

How wrong it feels to watch this happening, and to witness their desperate requests for foreign support or intervention, fearing that their protests will ultimately be futile and in vain, and that they will be sacrificed to the Chinese authorities. The sense of helplessness is overwhelming and devastating.