The notion that democracy and freedom have any kind of positive relation is the most mindless ideological brain-lock possible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/11/maybe-woke-nbas-hypocrisy-china-has-awakened-us-consumers-about-their-own/ … ...
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... Hong Kong has been free in its recent history, and remains freer than any Western society today, precisely because it has had zero democracy.
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... If Hong Kong is worried about losing its freedoms today, some kind of hardened charter city status based on the principle of One Country Two Systems is the answer. Democracy is completely irrelevant to it, except as a spoiler. ...
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... The CPC would be sensible to respectfully acknowledge the city's tradition of ultra-light-handed colonial governance, but that's probably ruled out by the ambient democratic insanity of our age.
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