[VanShuyten]

No, it won’t be like Tienanmen Square.
Large numbers of Hong Kongers will just wake up in a bunk next to a Uighur in some detention camp in the Gobi Desert.

[Zhang Fei]

[No, it won’t be like Tienanmen Square.
Large numbers of Hong Kongers will just wake up in a bunk next to a Uighur in some detention camp in the Gobi Desert.]

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The difference is that Tiananmen threatened the regime’s grip on power. The Hong Kong demonstrations, which are occurring far from the seat of power (i.e. Beijing) in China, don’t. From a practical standpoint, the current demonstrations are more an annoyance to the regime than anything else.