Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Chinese Media slip up humiliates Xi Jinping in Hong Kong" video.

  1. The Brits let go of all of HK thinking that Mainland China would converge towards Western free market democracy, which seeing all the progress with other anti-authoritarian movements going on in Asia seemed to be happening until 1989 proved that the Party plans to continue without challenge. The Brits made HK (and by extension Shenzhen) what it became because it was a piece of China 'with Western Characteristics', unlike the mess on the Mainland under the brittle centralized corrupt governance of the Qing, the pre-democratized Republic, and the CPC's "New China". Continued rule under the Party likely will just make HK into a mere inconvenient bedroom community of the Pearl Delta area with funny street names (mostly to maintain appearances as a "Special" Administrative Region).
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