they are very tough and strong and lose face. after that they have tycoons. they want stability. i don t think the protesters are going to prevail unless, we are listening to you, we will bring that totally, commence a police investigation and we may consider chief executive carrie lamb re-signing. things the government of hong kong can do is list the protesters. at that point they sell out. what you mentioned is an optimistic spin on what the chinese might do. i hope that happens.
look back, the 30-year-old and tiananmen square is china willing to risk that, there was a lot of negative impact for them in on the world stage. there is as much or more risk for china in not closing out these protests and not allowing the protesters in hong kong to get what they want and they are asking for a lot, for the chief executive to be replaced, they want that extradition bill to be retracted, they want amnesty for all protesters and they want in independent inquiry for the police who committed brutal atrocities against protesters. that s a lot to ask for. i think china feels if they give an inch to the protesters they may run the risk in their own mainland of chinese are disaffected as well. shannon: there s been bipartisan calls for this president to get more aggressively involved, should we stay out or get involved? i believe it is important for the united states to stand up with those were standing to democracy. we are beacon of inspiration to
there s a lot to look at with china study with our trade war and all that that implies for a relationship with china. certainly there are other issues including north korea and hong kong and the situation is really tense, china has amassed paramilitary and police forces on the border, they have clearly lost faith in hong kong chief executive carrie lamb to temp down on those protests. a long history of protests going back a decade and it is a financial home, a gateway to china. there s a lot of risk here financially and roughly 1 million reportedly involved in this protests, 1 million out of 7 million people. there is great cause for concern how this will play out. bap talking about satellite photos of what appeared to be armored personnel carriers and other vehicles belonging to the paramilitary, across the border in hong kong and the threat from beijing to use increased force against protesters but as we
earlier today more than 100 flights were canceled, grounding thousands of passengers. check this video, even putting those passengers in harm s way as the angry crowd continue to grow. hong kong police officers shot rubber bullets to quell those demonstrators but it worked in only a few incidents. the angry group attacked the man thought to be a double agent working for the chinese government in beijing. speaking of beijing, the capital city, many said they want hong kong to work out its own problems but the rhetoric is changing, what is official arguing the protesters are, quote, beginning to show the sprouts of terrorism. the entire appraising began a few months ago when a group began protesting over an extradition bill that would essentially allow beijing to come into hong kong, transport accused criminals to mainland china, the protesters want carrie lamb who back the extradition bill gone from office.
all the while the underlying issues which led to the protests the extradition to china the calls for carrie lamb to step down have not been answered. meaning the two sides are on a collision course we have to see who backs down and what action china choosing to take. steve: no action right there now at the airport. benjamin hall. let s bring in stuart varney host of varney and company. my take with stuar stuart varney on fox nation. what do you make what s going on over there. on news. beijing doing the groundwork preparing for some kind of intervention. circulating these videos showing military people just across the border doing riot control calling the people demonstrating radicals around near terrorists they seem to be whipping up mainland support for some intervention in hong kong. they are saying intervention is inevitable if the situation worsens.