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I would argue it needs to be measured steps to get to that point. Hong Kong has seen that it is going to have a lot of its autonomy stripped away and that peace
by Zafira 7y ago
I would argue it needs to be measured steps to get to that point. Hong Kong has seen that it is going to have a lot of its autonomy stripped away and that peaceful, sustained protests are more or less ignored, which is why it deteriorated into this. It's a tremendously patronizing attitude that Beijing has towards everyone; my suspicion is that Beijing views Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as wayward children that need to be brought back into the fold.
- roenxi 7y agoYou can't change who has final say in measured steps though; it is not a half-and-half proposition. It might be theoretically possible, but the complexity of such a system isn't at all stable and pressure can build quite quickly. It looks like China has been taking very mild measured steps towards change and it has resulted in the streets being clogged with protestors in ~20 years. Ultimately the people who control the army get to say what the rules are.