{"id":11683,"date":"2020-05-18T23:44:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T21:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/celineduong.com\/?page_id=11683"},"modified":"2023-09-23T17:41:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T15:41:16","slug":"sois-comme-leau","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/celineduong.com\/index.php\/sois-comme-leau\/","title":{"rendered":"Sois comme l’eau"},"content":{"rendered":"

9 juin 2019. Les rues de Hong-Kong sont noires de monde. 1 million de manifestants contre un projet de loi d\u2019extradition (1)  remettant en question le syst\u00e8me juridique de l\u2019\u00eele. Le dimanche d\u2019apr\u00e8s, on en comptera le double.<\/span><\/p>\n

On assiste aujourd\u2019hui \u00e0 une escalade des tensions \u00e0 l\u2019approche du premier anniversaire de ces manifestations. Les derniers \u00e9chos venus de Hong Kong font \u00e9tat de clashs violents entre l\u00e9gislateurs pro-gouvernementaux et de l\u2019opposition qui en viennent aux mains, d\u2019une loi de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale interdisant toute activit\u00e9 s\u00e9ditieuse ou subversive… Le jeu d\u2019intimidation entre l\u2019\u00eele et le continent se poursuit dans un contexte de crise sanitaire o\u00f9 toute manifestation est interdite.<\/span><\/p>\n

Les opposants ne sont n\u00e9anmoins pas \u00e0 court d\u2019id\u00e9es pour faire part de leur col\u00e8re, qui s\u2019exprime d\u00e9sormais de mani\u00e8re plus discr\u00e8te et souterraine…Chaque semaine, des rassemblements clandestins sont relay\u00e9s sur des comptes Instagram, Telegram et autres r\u00e9seaux en ligne. L\u2019organisation des \u00e9v\u00e9nements sur diff\u00e9rents lieux a pour but de d\u00e9courager la police, oblig\u00e9e de se disperser.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00ab Be Water <\/i>\u00bb (\u00ab sois comme l\u2019eau \u00bb)<\/strong>, peut-on voir en hashtag<\/em>sur les r\u00e9seaux sociaux. Les manifestants se sont appropri\u00e9s cette maxime de Bruce Lee pour illustrer leur strat\u00e9gie : \u00eatre fluide comme l\u2019eau, remplir l\u2019espace et s\u2019adapter \u00e0 toutes les situations<\/strong>. Une m\u00e9taphore de la r\u00e9silience, en somme, \u00e0 laquelle s\u2019identifie une jeunesse hongkongaise \u00e9prise de d\u00e9mocratie.<\/span><\/p>\n

La contestation peut bien s\u2019essouffler, un activisme nouveau a vu le jour, port\u00e9 par une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration qui n’a pourtant pas connu le Hong Kong d’avant la r\u00e9trocession de 1997 (le retour de l’\u00eele \u00e0 la Chine).<\/span><\/p>\n

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1 Cette loi permettrait le transfert vers la Chine de toute personne consid\u00e9r\u00e9e par P\u00e9kin comme \u00ab fugitive \u00bb.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Be Water<\/span><\/h2>\n

June 9th 2019. 1 million demonstrators gathered in the streets of Hong Kong that sunday to protest against an extradition law (1) questioning the semi-autonomous territory’s legal system. 
\nThe number of protesters reached 2 million a week after.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a few months of stagnation, tensions increased again approching the 1st anniversary of those demonstrations.
\nThe last echoes from Hong Kong reported violent clashes between pro-government legislators and opponents, a national security law forbidding any seditious or subversive activity\u2026
\nThe game of intimidation between the island and the continent has been taken one step further as the sanitary crisis makes any demonstration illegal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, opponents aren\u2019t short of ideas to express their anger\u2026 Every week, gatherings are relayed through social networks, taking place in several locations at once in order to escape police arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00ab Be Water \u00bb<\/strong> became a popular hashtag on social networks. This motto taken from Bruce Lee illustrates the protestors\u2019 strategy : Be fluid like water, fill the space and adapt to all situations.<\/strong> A metaphor for resilience in other words, a portrait of the ever enduring Hong Kong\u2019s youth.<\/span><\/p>\n

A new activism has taken shape, carried on by a generation that for a majority wasn\u2019t born at the time of the handover. \u00ab The movement reached a peak last summer, then it calmed down in january, after the Taiwanese presidential elections \u00bb, says a young hongkongese, \u00ab but I believe this movement will regain its force with september\u2019s legislative elections. The wave will rise again. \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n

1  This law would allow people arrested in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous territory, to be sent to mainland China.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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