Even before returning to Chinese control in 1997, Hongkongers had demonstrated on different demands.
Majority of the lower income group find it extremely hard to make ends meet with stagnant incomes and rising cost of living. According to Anthropology Professor Gordon Mathews of Chinese University, there has been a significant shift in how his students felt about their ethnicity since the handover in 1997.The term"Hongkonger" extends well beyond politics and nationality, and crosses into definitions of culture, ethnicity, race and morality.
They also had a more"modern political outlook" and were more"trustful" of Hong Kong government than China's. Western media has been playing an aggressive role to project the confrontation between the protesters and Carrie Lam government - actually to discredit Beijing. There is no chance that Beijing will allow this Special Administrative Region having a capitalist economy, different currency, different legal and administrative system, different passport, etc - to secede and become another Taiwan.
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