Meanwhile, the station closings have a profound impact on residents of the city, who rely on the MTR and find themselves stranded without transport on a weekend. This in turn affects the retail economy. All of it will be blamed on the demonstrators, but is not their doing.
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So in a twisted way, the corruption and state failure in China protect Hong Kong (so far). China's leaders don't want to just crush the protests, because they need the financial gateway. And they're too used to absolute power to make smart concessions to sabotage the protests.
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The astronomical levels of internal corruption were always the least-understood factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union, at least in the Western eye. That makes me suspect that corruption in China is much more of a driving force than we give it credit for.
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“Twoten” is an important conjugation.
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