Why Beijing is seeing Hong Kong through 1989-coloured glasses GlobeDebate
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For Hong Kong’s protesters – last weekend, more than a million people took to the streets – it feels like three minutes to midnight and a last chance to push back before freedom is snuffed. Beijing has been slowly chipping away at the territory’s autonomy.
The Communist Party of China, circa 2019, is not the Soviet or Chinese Communist Party of the 1960s. Unlike those earlier communisms, which wanted to overthrow capitalism and separate themselves from the West, today’s China has made itself the centre of world trade and is deeply economically integrated with the rest of the world. Unlike the Soviet Union, whose puppets built an Iron Curtain, millions of Chinese travel abroad every year and return.
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