Even though a June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square style crackdown
failed to materialize, is the recent Hong Kong Universal Suffrage protests
could soon be the termed as “the revolution that can”?
By:Ringo Bones
Fortunately for the rest of humanity, a feared “June 4, 1989
Tiananmen Square style crackdown” failed to rear its ugly head yet again on the
recent Hong Kong Universal Suffrage Protests that started in September 26, 2014.
Also known as the Umbrella Revolution for the hashtag Tweet named after the
protesters’ use of their umbrellas to shield themselves from pepper sprays
deployed by the Hong Kong riot police, the recent pro-democracy protests in
Hong Kong that occupied the Mainland Chinese special administrative region –
despite the reduced number of protesters this very moment – is still going
strong until its demands are met on a genuine universal suffrage for Hong Kong
where its citizens can genuinely choose their own candidates of chief executive
to administer them as opposed to only being able to choose ones vetted by the
Beijing communist party by 2017.
As the now reduced number of protesters are still able to
reduce access to the main business district and the Beijing appointed chief
executive’s headquarters, the protesters’ still pending formal talks slated for
Friday, October 10 is still up in the air in terms of what will be
accomplished. During the height of the Hong Kong Occupy Central protests, the
Beijing government even resorted to using their “Cyber Army” to shut down any
Instagram activity between Hong Kong and Mainland China in order to avoid any
sympathetic rallies in the Mainland.
After reading the first few chapters of Mainland China’s General
Secretary Xi Jinping’s latest book titled The Governance of China which
Chairman Xi unabashedly states his fusing of Confucianism and Mao era socialism
as the main “secret of his (political?) success” I think any June 4, 1989
Tiananmen Square era crackdown on the Hong Kong Occupy Central protestors is
out of the question. But on how Chairman Xi will “resolve” the Hong Kong “unrest”
during the next few months might prove surprising to say the least to anyone closely
watching the events in Hong Kong.
