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Yeah - again, I know people who grew up in Hong Kong and still have family there (and they’re not right-wingers, to be clear). They were perfectly fine and happy with being administered by the PRC - frankly, there are a lot of benefits to that.
But the crackdown on civil rights and democratic rule was the thing that caused so much protesting. And the crackdown incited the protests and riots, not the other way around - it was effectively a police riot that kicked all that off. A concept I’m familiar with, by the way, as a unitedstatesian, because our police are generally pieces of shit, moreso than the general baseline.
The Extradition Bill was created so murderers like Chan Tong-kai and other criminals that fled from mainland China to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region could be tried for their crimes. HK protest leaders met US diplomats, and the US Empire spun it into a matter of "democracy" and "autonomy." This is the same playbook as 1989, only this time the PRC was more leniant as they were wary from repeating 1989. I fail to see how this was an organic and democratic movement, especially when analyzed from a class perspective.