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Gordon G. Chang: Could Hong Kong protests topple China's Communist rulers?
OPINION - By Gordon G. Chang | Fox News
Two million people in Hong Kong protest China's growing influence
Reaction and analysis from former State Dept. official Christian Whiton.
Hong Kong at the moment is quiet. On Sunday, however, almost two million people—about a quarter of the city’s population—walked along main thoroughfares in orderly protest.
When the demonstrations began in late March, there was only one demand: that Chief Executive Carrie Lam withdraw a Legislative Council bill that would allow the extradition of “fugitives” to mainland China.
Now the crowds are larger and the list of demands longer. Will the crisis for China end in toppling its hardline political system?
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For many, that question is preposterous. China’s Communist Party, however, has much to lose at this time, and few things can be taken for granted.
No one expected 130,000 people to protest the extradition bill in April. No one expected a million to hit the streets on June 9. And certainly, no one expected nearly two million would protest Sunday.
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“It looks like everyone is loyal and the regime will be here for centuries, that nothing will ever change, and it’s easy to believe that,” Vaclav Havel, the Czech dissident turned statesmen, said at the end of last century. Totalitarian societies—China is fast becoming one—always appear strong, but they fail quickly.
Xi Jinping may now appear strong, but demonstrators in Hong Kong are forcing their leader to capitulate and China’s leader has to be concerned what happens next.
Gordon G. Chang is the author of "The Coming Collapse of China." Follow him on Twitter @GordonGChang.
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