However they are not equivalent to to sans culottes who rose from the Paris sewers to fight the ancien regime of Louis Xiv and Marie Antoinette. These are middle class well to do people who are overly westernized and see the chance to push for their version of Western Democracy for Hong Kong and in so doing sideline the role of the Beijing regime in how to choose the de facto ruler of Hong Kong.
The result of their doings at this moment is this:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/n/2014/0829/c90785-8776049.html
These same political discontents fail to remember that the when GB gave up control of Hong Kong it was not to the people of Hong Kong as such. It was to the sovereign power that had to cede Hong Kong to her in accord with her demands after her thrashing of the Second Opium War. It was for 100 years. When the time was up, GB gave it back to the successor of that sovereign power, i.e. China. She never gave it back to the people who lived in Hong Kong.
If these political malcontents do not grasp this reality and they keep pushing, then like the students of Tienanmen, they will be in for the whacking they are asking for. If that happens the tsunamis of rage and tears will pour from the West. However, it will matter little to China. Civil order will be upheld in any nation that is threatened by its discontents . . . even in Ferguson, Missouri, USA.
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