[Skybird]

They probably would prefer strangling python tactics this time instead of screams and drama a la Tiananmen massacre. Bureaucracy, creeping legislation, silent law making - the omnipresence of the pythons muscular body constricting more and more around its victim.

The only chance of Honkong also is the biggest risk: to push their protests more and more to make them be heard in and springing to other Chinese metropoles as well. Fear of this happening may make the party act either this or that way: either to give ground, which is against its elitist self-understanding, or to crack down hard on the protesters and killing the rebellion before it can spread.

Well, its China, it had to be expected that this crisis would emerge. Nobody should be surprised. The claims of Bejiong for control of HK in the future will not shrink, but grow. And in the long run, they will get through. If not this time, then one of the next times.