People seem to have forgotten about the Hong Kong riots roughly 15 minutes after the NED money dried up and the consent manufacturers had to be transferred elsewhere.
Honestly I still don’t know what those protests were even about? Were they even about democracy? Cus I recall their demands did nothing that would have changed the fact that Hong Kong is basically 5 banks in a trench coat.
a proposed bill for the extradition of criminals to taiwan, macau, and the mainland is what it started over
the case that started the bill was a hk couple who went on holiday to taiwan, then the boyfriend murdered the girlfriend
At their core, the protests were about a sense of localist superiority. I’d say “ethno nationalism” but Hong Konger isn’t really an ethnicity separate from Guangdong people. The rioters thought that they were superior, “more civilized” because of exposure to British rule. Hence shit like calling other Chinese people “locusts” and flying the HK flag.
It’s one of the reasons the protesters’ cause flopped categorically with anyone old enough to remember British rule.
People seem to have forgotten about the Hong Kong riots roughly 15 minutes after the NED money dried up and the consent manufacturers had to be transferred elsewhere.
Honestly I still don’t know what those protests were even about? Were they even about democracy? Cus I recall their demands did nothing that would have changed the fact that Hong Kong is basically 5 banks in a trench coat.
a proposed bill for the extradition of criminals to taiwan, macau, and the mainland is what it started over
the case that started the bill was a hk couple who went on holiday to taiwan, then the boyfriend murdered the girlfriend
Yeah i remember they were mad some murder ceo was going to be punished.
At their core, the protests were about a sense of localist superiority. I’d say “ethno nationalism” but Hong Konger isn’t really an ethnicity separate from Guangdong people. The rioters thought that they were superior, “more civilized” because of exposure to British rule. Hence shit like calling other Chinese people “locusts” and flying the HK flag.
It’s one of the reasons the protesters’ cause flopped categorically with anyone old enough to remember British rule.
They were mad that the central government wanted to exert any level of control over the five banks in a trench coat iirc