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RE: Some recent footage from Hong Kong
While people might debate that this series of protests are due to politics or foreign influence, I think that it is fundamentally a result of the decades of widening wealth gap. Now there are simply too many Hong Kong'ers who cannot envision a good future and they feel that they simply have nothing to lose.
This should be a wake-up call for the world to seriously look at the problem of a widening wealth gap. It is a global issue, not just in HK. This can happen in any country or city if the gap between the haves and have-nots get too big
It actually is happening around the world. Off the top of my head, ongoing, multi-month protests in:
Bolivia
Haiti
Chile
France
Iraq
Venezuela
Algeria
Many of these have a much higher death toll and just as many on the streets if not more but are not really reported
I bet there's a whole bunch more
The Chief Executive of Hong Kong is selected by only 1200 oligarchs - a small circle of pro-Business and pro-Mainland people. The LegCo (Legislative Council) has direct elections of only half of its seats, the rest being given to special (pro-Business, pro-Beijing) interests. We like it this way because it ensure our wages are paid.
Last year Oregon, USA nearly joined @mobbs list. At one point a state Senator told the Governor, who had threatened to send state police to arrest him, 'Send bachelors, and make sure they're heavily armed.'
Sen. Boquist had been a paramilitary, and this was not an idle threat. The Governor backed down, and all is rosewater and hugs now. Not really. The AGW alarmist propaganda encouraged the left to seek carbon taxes that threatened to depopulate rural Oregon, and if they seek to do so again, the political situation in Oregon may well devolve.
I expect this is the situation in more places than it's not today.