The Communist Party will not make concessions. If it has to make them in Hong Kong, it will have to make them in mainland China.
We’ve a few days away from China’s National Day - the day of the founding of the People’s Republic - but what is not lost on Chinese leaders is any hint of weakness would bring about the downfall of the Communist regime.
They are well aware they have to hang together or hang separately. How the democracy protests are resolved in HK will tell us much about China’s future.
I think a lot of the fear is the possibility that the protests could end up broken up like what happened at Tiananmen Square 25 years ago. Given the fairly large People’s Liberation Army contingent located in Guangdong Province next to Hong Kong, such a scenario is not far-fetched, sadly.