SHAME-FREE thread: ask the dumbest question you have about the Hong Kong protests. I'll try to answer it or loop in a real Hong Konger to answer it for you. No question too ignorant or basic.
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What’s the best case scenario, as far as an outcome?
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Put another way: is it possible for HK to have peace and democracy without leaving China altogether?
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The best case scenario is for de-escalation and some concessions by the government (universal suffrage as guaranteed under Basic Law, amnesty, independent investigation of police violence) that lets Hong Kong remain an autonomous part of China under One Country, Two Systems.
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The Hong Kong protests are not a leftist movement
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VERY embarrassing dumb question: do people still pretend Chinese fascism is “left” a la Marxism, or is it widely accepted that the Chinese government is hard right?
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I think the only people who believe in the ideological content of Chinese communism are American tankies (ultra-leftists). An interesting historical note is that Hong Kong had real leftist riots in 1966-67 in support of the PRC. But the axis now is authoritarianism vs. freedom
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Seems like that’s becoming the axis everywhere
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