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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
China took over a democracy. Wtf did you think was going to happen?
There is no rule of law when the communist party can do whatever they want.
It’s just a question of time to Tiannemen square P2
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Kind of bothers me when people talk like the British were any better than the CCP.
Hong Kong was never a democracy under the British.
From wikipedia:
The governor, appointed by the British monarch (on the advice of the Foreign Secretary), exercised the executive branch of the Government of Hong Kong throughout British sovereignty and, with the exception of a brief experiment after World War II, no serious attempt was made to introduce representative government, until the final years of British rule.
Patten the last governor had this to say in 1992. It's not condescending at all.
"People in Hong Kong are perfectly capable of taking a greater share in managing their own affairs in a way that is responsible, mature, restrained, sensible"