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CK_John

(10,005 posts) Thu Sep 25, 2014, 08:43 AM Sep 2014

Is Hong Kong on the verge of another Tiananmen Square or Cultural Revolution? [View all]

HONG KONG — In his black T-shirt, shorts and flip flops, Joshua Wong could be just another Hong Kong high school student.

But the 17-year-old has fast become the bête noire of China’s state media — they have called him an extremist and a buffoon in response to his leadership of student protests demanding greater democracy in the former British colony now ruled by China.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/can-17-year-old-democracy-protester-joshua-wong-defeat-beijing-n210701

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IMO, this new connected generation is coming of age but...China has almost totally erased all reference to the evil events of Tiananmen.

Hopefully the old guard of China has learned something also.

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Is Hong Kong on the verge of another Tiananmen Square or Cultural Revolution? [View all] CK_John Sep 2014 OP

Ask the Occupy movement n/t malaise Sep 2014 #1

I don't see the connection. nt CK_John Sep 2014 #2

The current protests are part of the Occupy movement, I believe Chathamization Sep 2014 #6

The Financial Times Ltd has caught up with DU CK_John Sep 2014 #3

The cultural Revolution sabbat hunter Sep 2014 #4

China is at another crossroad as it was with Formosa which was the reason for CK_John Sep 2014 #5

The Cultural Revolution was an enforced sufrommich Sep 2014 #7

Not worried about the protester but the old guard that followed in Mao's shoes. CK_John Sep 2014 #8