sjn wrote:SILENTTODD wrote:Withnail wrote:SILENTTODD wrote:
Was this guy one of those CIA Maggots too?
off topic post reported. We're talking about Hong Kong in 2014, not Beijing in 1989.
If your not aware Withnail, it's the same government, same dictators they had in 1989.
This isn't really true. Quite a lot has changed in the last 25 years, the social reform program was pretty much cancelled as a result of the backlash from 1989 protests; but the Capitalist reforms pushed on, and have travelled a long way in the last quarter-century. The Chinese political-economy today is driven by the same Neo-liberal Economic agenda as "The West", big finance and maximal exploitation of resources and the environment in the name of growth.
Same Mobsters running a different script. It's not like comparing the government of war time Japan to the one of current day.
Might want to explain to the people of Tibet how "changed" the PRC is.