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I agree as much as the next commenter here that HK can’t survive Tiananmen 2.0, but am not so sure about the CCP leadership. And I do have actual interactions w

I agree as much as the next commenter here that HK can’t survive Tiananmen 2.0, but am not so sure about the CCP leadership. And I do have actual interactions with mainland Chinese (although I don’t know whether you’d consider them “educated.”) > It will be an economic suicide for mainland China. Is there any doubt about that? Why not? I would most definitely doubt it. Again, I do assume it would crash, but there is absolutely no actual proof that is the case. This wouldn’t be the first time CCP uses armed forces against civillian protest, and on every previous occassion they ended up just fine.

theseadroid 7y ago
>This wouldn’t be the first time CCP uses armed forces against civillian protest Europeans have killed how many American Indians and ended up just fine. But can they do that today? Coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada had been legal for as late as 1970s and do they dare to do that today [1,2]? What I'm saying is the world has changed quite a bit and so do CCP. >and on every previous occasion they ended up just fine. Really? For starters during previous conflicts CCP rarely had an economy to crash. Again, the legitimacy of CCP within mainland is almost purely lay on its power of economy growth. There are many Chinese people who are not content with it but bear CCP because of the economy growth [3]. You probably knew the 2014 Hong Kong protest, which had a similar scale? If CCP can wait that one out, why can't it do it again this time? [4] 1. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/forced-sterilization-lawsuit-could-expand-1.5102981 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/forced-sterilization-la... 2. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sterilization-of-indigenous-women-in-canada https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sterilizat... 3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20148705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20148705 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Central_with_Love_and_Peace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Central_with_Love_and_P...

theseadroid 7y ago

>This wouldn’t be the first time CCP uses armed forces against civillian protest Europeans have killed how many American Indians and ended up just fine. But can they do that today? Coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada had been legal for as late as 1970s and do they dare to do that today [1,2]? What I'm saying is the world has changed quite a bit and so do CCP. >and on every previous occasion they ended up just fine. Really? For starters during previous conflicts CCP rarely had an economy to crash. Again, the legitimacy of CCP within mainland is almost purely lay on its power of economy growth. There are many Chinese people who are not content with it but bear CCP because of the economy growth [3]. You probably knew the 2014 Hong Kong protest, which had a similar scale? If CCP can wait that one out, why can't it do it again this time? [4] 1. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/forced-sterilization-lawsuit-could-expand-1.5102981 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/forced-sterilization-la... 2. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sterilization-of-indigenous-women-in-canada https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sterilizat... 3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20148705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20148705 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Central_with_Love_and_Peace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Central_with_Love_and_P...