How Hong Kong stood up to Beijing

[Dirty D]

Hong Kong's protesters used low-tech street smarts to smash China's powerful techno-authoritarianism

The protesters used low-tech gear and street smarts to defeat China's many efforts to disrupt the protests. Here's how they did it.

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[ArmyJerry]

I posted about this a few days ago, have many friends there, this city could sink China, the whole fucking thing.. they are as strident and hard headed as south Koreans

 

[2ndamendfan]

The Hong Kong people stood up to China. Not Hong Kong it self. It would help if everyone understood the difference. Also, the Hong Kong people will pay the price, do not forget that for one second.

 

[ArmyJerry]

yup the city gov has been diluted

the people left there are the ones that had no out lined up, they are the toughest ones, the ones that will force china's hand then cause a collapse. Shanghai is watching.

 

[2ndamendfan]

Hong Kong mayor and/or govenor are just puppets for China mainland. The people are the fighters. 3% is better than no%.

 

[ArmyJerry]

Its a SAR

 

[W54/XM-388]

Its a SAR

For another 28 ish years according to the agreement.....

If you look at the sheer numbers that showed up to protest once they caught on what a small little change in legal proceedings actually meant, it's very encouraging in the cause of freedom for standing up against the Communists.

The Chinese Communists are powerful and ruthless and rule with an iron fist... but... they are also trapped in their own quasi capitalist/communist/fascist hybrid economic system (which enabled them to avoid the fate of the Soviet Union), they are only in power as long as the economy keeps going along okay. Thanks to their disastrous (but of course UN praised) One Child policy, they are sitting on a highly volatile powder keg of hundreds of millions with little to loose. If they kill the goose that lays the golden eggs and their economy tanks into the dirt, the pickaxes, hoes and torches are coming for them...

 

[padronanniversary]

China will just play the long game, in a generation or two it will be assimilated

 

[Blue Sky Country]

For another 28 ish years according to the agreement.....

If you look at the sheer numbers that showed up to protest once they caught on what a small little change in legal proceedings actually meant, it's very encouraging in the cause of freedom for standing up against the Communists.

The Chinese Communists are powerful and ruthless and rule with an iron fist... but... they are also trapped in their own quasi capitalist/communist/fascist hybrid economic system (which enabled them to avoid the fate of the Soviet Union), they are only in power as long as the economy keeps going along okay. Thanks to their disastrous (but of course UN praised) One Child policy, they are sitting on a highly volatile powder keg of hundreds of millions with little to loose. If they kill the goose that lays the golden eggs and their economy tanks into the dirt, the pickaxes, hoes and torches are coming for them...

This.

They know that Hong Kong is basically the one power strip supplying voltage to the mainland's titanic but fragile economic system. HK is the one place where many of the East-West business deals are made and solidified. 70% of the mainland's economy relies on foreign investments, hence the Belt And Road Initiative is so important to the powers that be in Zhongnanhai. The reason why they are not going to anger HK too much is because they do not want to trip that circuit breaker and blow out a fuse.

 

[ArmyJerry]

think long and hard about them being forced to float the currency.

 

[308pirate]

The Hong Kong medical sector lawmaker Pierre Chan said at a press conference that through a "backdoor" in hospital computer systems, the police were able to access confidential medical information about patients wounded in the protests and arrest them at the hospital,

Don't think for a second that these lessons are lost on our leftist socialists that love technology.

 

[powdahound76]

And remember a large volume of hospital workers are communists or at least communist lite.
They will “cooperate” with the leftist authority if asked. Not even a push or threat required.

 

[pmclaine]

If only there were a similar event in a certain District.