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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.
They were mad that the central government wanted to exert any level of control over the five banks in a trench coat iirc
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.
That's such a weak branch to base a movement on, I guess that's the power of cia money to mobilize even slightly disaffected people.
Also can you imagine the US government response to the kind of actions the protesters took for what was essentiallya secessionistmovement? They would have run out of body bags.
True, but this kind of incoherent bullshit is how capitalism sustains itself.
The US government killed more protestors in a single day against justified protests surrounding the murder of George Floyd than the CPC did over 5 months of secessionists in Hong Kong.
Even Natopedia admits there were only 2 deaths from the """protests"""