Hong Kong Protests

[Lyrebird]

China tells USA not to meddle and also Hong Kong playing the waiting game.

Remember to watch what you say when discussing this matter. Treat every opinion and everyone with respect and no discriminatory comments that can be seen as racial, sexist or anyway demeaning to a group of people.

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[Jolene]

China knows that if they pull another Tienanmen Square the international repercussions would be unbearable. However I get the feeling that if they do the West most likely wouldn't do anything except slap on a few weak sanctions. China seems intent to wait on the protests to fizzle out but it seems like they aren't. Simple solution is just to let them have their democracy.

None of this would've happened if Britain had kept Hong Kong or had given them independence.

 

[Robo-Floatzel]

You know, in recent years China has began to concern me a lot, given their aggressive stance with the Senkaku Islands, the fact that the Phillipines and Vietnam are mad at them over their "Nine Dash Line" that claims the entire South China Sea, and lately what they've been doing in Hong Kong has concerned me as well, given what happened in Beijing in 1989 was a very similar situation. To put it simply, nobody likes China because what it essentially does is try and take control over what the people think and feel.

But I've been doing a bit of research and I found something that relates to this situation that makes me nervous, and that is the "Chinese Dream" pursued by Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a means of recovering the global status of the Chinese empire that it had centuries ago, deeply imbibing Mao Zedong's thoughts of a world revolution. With the increasingly growing Chinese economy, this "Chinese model" is after a model of "state capitalism" in which all companies and manufacturers are controlled by the government, and this ideology evaluates the primacy of economic growth and a powerful state over democracy and human rights, which is why China's policies have become more strict.

What is happening in Hong Kong is very important not just for their city, but for the entire world, as China's policies and control over Hong Kong have proven that China has ignored the most important thing that any nation has: it's people. Someone once said that when a government becomes too corrupt, the people will rise up against them and start a revolution.

What the government in Beijing is trying to do here is essentially try and make Hong Kong less independent and more like the mainland in all aspects, and nobody in Hong Kong wants to be anything like the mainland's government. If China silences Hong-Kong like they did during the Tiananmen Square protests, it would intensify the authoritarian tendencies of the Communist regime and will harm democracy everywhere.

 

[Lyrebird]

So it also looks like a media war.

 

[Dorothy LaRouge]

Simple solution is just to let them have their democracy.

This would be in defiance of standard Chinese policy (not to mention Hong Kong has already been afforded an astounding amount of autonomy). China has enough standing on the world stage that even another Tiananmen would probably garner little more than statements of disapproval and possibly half-baked sanctions (though that's doubtful given how many nations owe China so much money).

None of this would've happened if Britain had kept Hong Kong or had given them independence.

Too bad they only had a 99-year lease!

 

[Jolene]

Well these protests turned to nothing. They could've had an impact if they stayed but nope. Either some under the table agreement occurred or they just saw the cause as hopeless.

I wish Communist China would collapse already.

 

[Robo-Floatzel]

So it also looks like a media war.

Considering China's infamous internet censorship, it's no surprised that they would deny the protests existence to the Chinese citizens, and honestly, I believe that China's heavy censorship is beginning to isolate the nation from the rest of the world and slowly cause it's eventual collapse. They're trying to silence Hong Kong so they could basically have control over all Chinese people no matter where in the world they are, and if they silence Hong Kong, this will doom democracy everywhere, starting with Taiwan.

This practice of isolating the Chinese people from the rest of the world is what lead to the collapse of it's past governments and dynasties, because humans have the right to know what their government is doing, and the people of Hong Kong are sick of how corrupt the mainland government has gotten.

Well these protests turned to nothing. They could've had an impact if they stayed but nope. Either some under the table agreement occurred or they just saw the cause as hopeless.

I wish Communist China would collapse already.

I second that, eventually the country is going to get so big that it's going to collapse under it's own weight. More money is being spent on it's military than virtually anything else, especially due to the conflict over the Senkaku Islands, while everything else like maintaining infrastructure and taking care of the pollution has been coming second.

People's Republic of China, such a hypocritical name for a country who's government completely ignores it's people in favor of state controlled businesses and basically hiding the existence of the outside world through heavy internet censorship to make it's people think they're in some sort of idealistic utopia, which needless to say, people are starting to see that this "utopia" does not exist. Ever since Tiananmen Square, the amount of protests in China has grown with each year, with the government constantly trying to silence their people to basically deny that anything bad happens in their country.

 

[Lyrebird]

Here come the clashes in the protests.