"No one from mainland China supports the HK protests" is not a sound argument. If you faced repercussions for expressing support, if you only had access to CCP-controlled media, if you were fed a constant diet of govt propaganda, you wouldn't be showing support for HK either...
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why should they support independence of part of their country that was stolen many years ago from the opium war?
The HK protests are a pro-democracy movement, *not* an independentist movement. This is what is really scaring the CCP.
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If you watch the interviews (mostly in Cantonese), many protesters explicitly say they don't consider themselves Chinese. And the way they treat mainlanders is awful. They insult mainland tourists, calling them "locusts". Some people were assaulted just for speaking Mandarin.
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what you saw are just *some* who pro-violence for democracy. but the point is that they are only a very small part of protesters, and most are pro-peace, rationality, non-violence.
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The underlying factors are that they want a full-fledged civil “democracy” (they didn’t have it as British colony either) to then be able to vote for independence. Protesters don’t want to be part of China by 2047. Hence, Mainland people don’t want to lose their territory again.
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How does being democratic mean you can declare independence? Look at the American Civil War. Military power, which China has plenty of, is enough to prevent independence.
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If you can really look into what those violent protesters did, you might change your mind.
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One thing HK protesters recently started to do is to block street cars where it's easy to do so, and force to check the passengers' cell phones. People that are found from in-land or pro-China will be treated with violence. I don't see any democracy or freedom of speech in this.
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