I get a sense that people are looking for something they’re not going to get. Democracy. They’re part of China. Not going to happen.
I agree it’s not likely, but this episode can *definitely* be used to good effect.
There are Communist shill accounts on Twitter trying to propagandize all this, and some of us are trolling them into debates and discrediting Mao and Marxism in general.
Undermining the legitimacy of the Communist Party in China ought to be a no-brainer.