1.Hong Kong Needs to decide if it's all in. MT Analysis | In Hong Kong, what happens now that Beijing has called the protests a ‘color revolution’? washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
2. The CCP is now calling out Hong Kong for being revolutionary? Hong Kong watched the Communist take over in 1949 and knew this day would come. But the current reaction is to simply huddle and try to resist the tsunami that the Chinese state can pour down on the small democratic
3. enclave. But it is the failure of the Chinese communist party that gave rise to the capitalist saving China. The Communist party tries to claim it brought China to world power when the fact is Communism and Leninist authoritarianism had doomed China.
4. Capitalist saved China and they are centered in Hong Kong. Make China face what life will be like when China loses its markets after the crack down. Trump may be fine with authoritarianism but most Americans aren't. We have no interest in growing a hostile country's economy.
5. Beijing made a deal. It broke the deal and now it needs to make clear it reaffirms the deal it made. If not, then China has hit its peak and will slowly slide into the state that all authoritarian communist counties reach: Economic ruin and civil strife.
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