Analysis: China Raises Hong Kong Rhetoric to Tiananmen Level -- Voice of America
LONDON - China has raised the rhetorical stakes in its dispute with pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong, saying they are creating “chaos.” That is a significant term in Chinese Communist Party ideology, suggesting that the situation could threaten the Party’s hold on power, and therefore that decisive action is required.
The word was used in a front-page commentary in the Party newspaper, The People’s Daily – a platform used to express the views of top leaders and to implicitly warn of consequences unless the situation is rectified.
It is the same word Party officials used 25 years ago to describe the Tiananmen Square protests, in which thousands of students occupied Beijing’s central square for weeks.
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My Comment: At the moment .... the Chinese military is staying in their barracks in Hong Kong .... so a repeat is unlikely. But the Hong Kong protests are only a few days old .... the protests in Tiananmen went on for weeks in 1989 before the soldiers were called in. The environment and conditions in Hong Kong are also different .... but .... both sides are now looking for a fight .... and if one thinks of a worst case scenario .... in that case anything becomes possible.
Stupid me. I was hoping Hong Kong would infect china.
ReplyDeleteInstead the CCP is squashing Hong Kong.
I am going to re-read 1984 as a case history of sociological theory.
Aizino,
ReplyDeleteAll of this just seems 17 years too late.