• Muad'Dibber
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    112 years ago

    This comment outlines it really well, because it really had nothing originally to do anything economic originally: it was about Taiwan trying to extradite a guy who murdered his girlfriend then fled to HK. Then as that comment explains, the HK legislature added more extraditable crimes, including some financial ones, which made the capitalists in HK shit themselves, because they are almost always in violation of PRC law.

    So its a simple case of the HK bourgeosie trying to defend their property, stirring up the locals to resist what they see as a possible threat to them via these extradition laws.

      • Muad'Dibber
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        72 years ago

        Just media coverage imo, which is part of the color-revolution textbook. Get ppl protesting, try to invite a police crackdown, find leaders like joshua wong to prop up… keep the fire going however you can for as long as you can, hoping you can get enough popular opinion against the government to overthrow it.

        I’d say they accomplished their media anti-china goal of duping most ppl into thinking china cracked down viciously on the protestors. They failed in a long-term goal of getting the population of HK to turn against china or go against the status quo. (We can’t accuse imperialists of thinking long-term nowadays tho)