I actually heard a very very good opinion yesterday during a discussion over dinner.
Right now, China is basically doing damage control at the moment, not so much over the the Occupy Central, but over Chinese Citizens (separate from Hong Kong/Macau). They are now no longer giving automatic visas for tour groups to Hong Kong, the likely reason being that they don't want to start giving their citizen any ideas.
A person who was walking through one of the occupy sites, mentioned that they saw people from Mainland China explaining to their kids why that is happening, what it means to have democracy, and what it means to fight for democracy.
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