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No, it was more like the final straw that set all of the events in motion. It started with the Taiwanese matter that mainland China took advantage of to assert
by codeddesign 7y ago
No, it was more like the final straw that set all of the events in motion. It started with the Taiwanese matter that mainland China took advantage of to assert control. Mainland has been actively working to integrate Hong Kong into China for quite some time now both on the cultural side by encouraging Chinese to move to Hong Kong, and on the political side by removing complete authority away from Hong Kong.
If you have ever visited both places you can easily see that they are 2 separate cultures. Hong Kong does not want to be China, they want to govern themselves. This is what these issues are about. China is increasingly trying to assert control while Hong Kong wants to be sovereign.
- jialutu 7y agoI've been to both places, and I am fully aware that the system in Hong Kong is very different to that of the mainland, to the point where in certain aspects I see Hong Kong as a separate country (although things could have changed in the past few years, so I am not so certain). From what I've seen though, I don't think China really wants to fully integrate Hong Kong (probably not even in 2047) as it doesn't make to much sense to do so, but would rather create an offshore haven like what Jersey is to the UK. But here lies the problem, while Jersey is seen as really well off due to the number of high networth bank accounts kept there, there is a real sense of poverty in Jersey and I think that's the issue HK is facing right now. If that is the case, calling for democracy is not going to solve their problems, so instead of rioting, maybe they should have sat down to work out a better solution.