68k Hong Kongers flash China the bird

[DesertFox]

An estimated 68,000 people marched Sunday to demand democracy for Hong Kong on the 10th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule, hours after China's president warned them not to defy Beijing.

Huge crowds congregated in the city's Victoria Park and marched on the government central offices for the annual demonstration to demand universal suffrage, overshadowing government-organized anniversary celebrations.

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Don't you wish you coulda been there?

Organizers declared themselves 'delighted' with the turnout which they estimated at 68,000 making it the largest since the 2003 and 2004 July 1 marches which each attracted more than 500,000 people.

However, the Hong Kong police, which traditionally puts a low estimate on turnouts for anti-government demonstrations, estimated the turnout at just 20,000. A reporter for government-run radio station RTHK earlier estimated the crowd at 40,000 to 50,000.


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[DesertFox]

IIRC, Hong Kong has a density of about 247,000 per square male. Unbelievably packed with people.

[Sarah]

I'm surprised the mainland didn't role in with tanks and start massacring people like they did with the tiananmen square protest of 1989.

[Beowulf]

IF China was smart, and I do mean IF, they would leave Hong Kong completely alone as it is the best economic occurance every to hit China.

[Riverboat]

IF China was smart, and I do mean IF, they would leave Hong Kong completely alone as it is the best economic occurance every to hit China.Near as I can tell, that's been the policy since takeover. They know what's buttering the bread.

[DesertFox]

They scared. They don't want happening to them what happened to the Russkies and Gorbachinskiperakopov.

[DoctorDoom]

IF China was smart, and I do mean IF, they would leave Hong Kong completely alone as it is the best economic occurance every to hit China.What amazes me is that HK has been under the commie yoke for a decade and it hasn't yet become a squalid, rat-infested shithole (the fate of all once-properous cities and countries under that tyrannical rule).

[Sarah]

What amazes me is that HK has been under the commie yoke for a decade and it hasn't yet become a squalid, rat-infested shithole (the fate of all once-properous cities and countries under that tyrannical rule).
That's because they pretty much leave it alone. China doesn't want HK to become another dump like the rest of the mainland, they want the mainland to be like HK but are too corrupted and fearful of losing power to accomplish that.

[DeclinetoState]

IF China was smart, and I do mean IF, they would leave Hong Kong completely alone as it is the best economic occurance every to hit China."Dialectical materialism"--the overarching communist philosophy--is not very smart.