Who cares if they do, Hong Kong is part of China. The 99-year lease to UK expired and UK handed it back over.
China is very afraid that this revolution will spread to the mainland.
It will spread as there are forces at work here they don’t understand.
People will fight to the death if you try to take away their freedom, but if you bribe them with candy, they will give you their soul for free.
This is how liberals, socialism and communism captures souls without a battle.
“How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm after they’ve got daisey Maes?” bert
Tiananmen Square #2
The sad part is that the Communist Party of China remains successful at selling these things as “defending China”, as if the offenses were an existential threat to the nation of China.
When in both the Tiananmen Square case and Hong Kong today, there is no existential threat to the nation of China or even Chinese nationalism. The only entity who is threatened is the Communist Party of China and its ability to maintain its dictatorship.
Nationalism and the Communist Party of China are only tied together because the Communist Party of China hijacked Chinese nationalism and made it a slave to the party and its agenda.
Khomeini and his gang of Mullahs did the same thing in Iran. They hijacked Persian nationalism, eliminated all the other groups that worked with them as part of a “nationalist” coalition (on the way to defeating the Shah), and now OCCUPY Iranian nationalism the same way the Communist Party of China holds Chinese nationalism hostage to its dictatorial control.