I have no idea what the answer is to my question. As an outsider, it appears:
- that the protesters will likely not be satisfied until there is a resignation of all the people currently in power in Hong Kong.
- that the protests are becoming more and more violent and destructive.
- that arresting or even execution of the ring leaders will not stop the protests since there appear to be others ready to take over the lead if the current ring leaders are somehow stopped.
- that the Chinese goverrnment is does not want to appear to be the heavy here (because they don't want to be accused of another Tiananmen Square Msssacre).
I said I have no idea how it will end, but I will take a wild guess. The Chinese government will let the HK government try to clean up its own mess. They will fail badly. When the situation becomes so dire that the vast majority of HK people and even the western countries start asking for the Chinese government to intercede, then and only then will they will finally come in and "rescue" the good people of Hong Kong. It may still be a massacre, but there will be very litle blame attributed to the Chinese government. And it will provide a very useful lesson for the Chinese government to the rest of China as to what happens when you try to change the status quo.
JD
- that the protesters will likely not be satisfied until there is a resignation of all the people currently in power in Hong Kong.
- that the protests are becoming more and more violent and destructive.
- that arresting or even execution of the ring leaders will not stop the protests since there appear to be others ready to take over the lead if the current ring leaders are somehow stopped.
- that the Chinese goverrnment is does not want to appear to be the heavy here (because they don't want to be accused of another Tiananmen Square Msssacre).
I said I have no idea how it will end, but I will take a wild guess. The Chinese government will let the HK government try to clean up its own mess. They will fail badly. When the situation becomes so dire that the vast majority of HK people and even the western countries start asking for the Chinese government to intercede, then and only then will they will finally come in and "rescue" the good people of Hong Kong. It may still be a massacre, but there will be very litle blame attributed to the Chinese government. And it will provide a very useful lesson for the Chinese government to the rest of China as to what happens when you try to change the status quo.
JD