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The blame for this falls entirely on Britain’s shoulders.
Trump, of course, duh!
“many locals believe “PLA troops are already here, disguised as Hong Kong riot police ...””
Guangdong People’s Armed Police, I’d figure.
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“Seventy percent of Taiwan’s 24 million people speak Hakka.”
No. He’s mixed up Hakka with Taiwanese, aka Hoklo/Hokkien or Min Nan.
Maybe 20% speak Hakka and 70% might be a high estimate for Taiwanese.
“The Hong Kong-Tiananmen Square connection suggests Hong Kong is a continuation of the 20th century’s great battle between imperial tyrannies —monarchies, Reichskanzlers, Politburos — and political systems that protect essential individual freedoms such as free expression and assembly. “
The dictatorship has one thing on its side - the deep cultural remnants of the imperial age of China, with the majority of the people’s acquiesence in respecting the rule and control by the center of power in China. That culture has long convinced the sheeple that as long as the center held China would survive - and the corallary that China would not survive if the center of power did not survive.
Then the end of the 1800s and beginning of the 1900s saw the possible flowering of democracy with the boxer rebellion, followed by Sun Yat Sen and the Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew the last emperor and established the first Republic of China. But that led to a compromise with the last military strongman of the emperor, and eventually warlords, and instablity followed by the chaos of both the rise of the Communists and the war with Japan. So the beginning of possible democracy is colored with great division, chaos and civil war. What is the mantle Mao held? It was that he restored the center, holding China together. In essence he assumed the same mantle as the emperors of old.
And in many ways the dictatorship is, culturally, a continuation of many aspects of the old imperial order; including its present foreign policies.
It is not politics alone in China that has to change, the culture has to change and that cannot be done by politics alone. Some kind of great awakening in China has to occur.
Ya have to know that eventually the Chi-Coms will tire of this and squash
The rebellion like a bug, critiques be damned
It’s going to end just like Tiananmen Square.
The Communist Chinese do not tolerate freedom.