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Originally Posted by Skybird
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.
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I personally think that if push came to shove the 'party' would choose the latter course...nothing in past history suggests any other.