Hong Kong protesters could be planning something big on October 1, China's national day, dubbed 'Dem

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[QUOTE]Organizers of Hong Kong’s Occupy Central with Love and Peace movement are inviting people to join a “democracy banquet” on the Oct. 1 holiday to fight for broader democratic rights in the city.People who support democracy are welcome to attend the “banquet” or just to watch it, Benny Tai, a professor at The University of Hong Kong and co-founder of the Occupy Central movement, said in a Facebook post yesterday. The first day of October is China’s National Day, marking the start of the Communist Party’s rule in 1949.
“While others celebrate the big day for the country, we will also serve a banquet in Central to push for Hong Kong’s democracy,” Tai said in the post.

Tai and other leaders of the movement have threatened sit-in protests in the city’s financial district after China said last month that candidates for the 2017 leadership election in Hong Kong must be vetted by a committee. Occupy Central applied to the police for a gathering of as many as 50,000 people at Chater Garden on Oct. 1, the Apple Daily reported today, citing the organizers.
In the Facebook posting, Occupy Central asked people who plan to join the meeting to bring food, drinks, spare batteries for phones, sleeping bags, and a change of clothes. The movement also applied for permits for rallies on Chater Road for Oct. 1 and Oct. 2, Apple Daily said.
Chater Garden and Chater Road are in the city’s business district, close to the Asian headquarters of HSBC Holdings Plc and the office of Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong’s richest man.

Thousands of university students boycotted classes this week to express dissatisfaction with China’s ruling. Opposition lawmakers, student groups and Occupy Central leaders have said the vetting committee will be packed with legislators and business executives favoring Beijing.
Lawmakers are expected to vote on the electoral reforms next year. Opposition to the proposal is fueling the risk of China canceling the popular election, the city’s top official, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, said Sept. 14.[/QUOTE]

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[editline]29th September 2014[/editline]

I know there's a number of hong kong protest threads, but this is different.

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I still can't believe the British gave Hong Kong back and they didn't even ask them if they wanted to be Chinese.

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[QUOTE=download;46104766]I still can't believe the British gave Hong Kong back and they didn't even ask them if they wanted to be Chinese.[/QUOTE]

Wasn't just that simple. UK forcibly acquired Hong Kong from China. So of course they're gonna settle thing with China.

They signed this treaty during the 80s: [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration[/URL]
In which PRC agreed to rule Hong Kong according to the "1 country 2 system" idea, up until 2047.

I think PRC promised full democracy to Hong Kong for their first ever election in 2017, but then introduced changes in favor of PRC to it, which is why people now are protesting.

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[QUOTE=Swebonny;46104806]Wasn't just that simple. UK forcibly acquired Hong Kong from China. So of course they're gonna settle thing with China.

They signed this treaty during the 80s: [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration[/URL]
In which PRC agreed to rule Hong Kong according to the "1 country 2 system" idea, up until 2047.

I think PRC promised full democracy to Hong Kong for their first ever election in 2017, but then introduced changes in favor of PRC to it, which is why people now are protesting.[/QUOTE]

The people who lived there and were ethnically Chinese did not want to be a part of the PRC. Firstly they didn't trust the Chinese to hod up to the agreement of '1 country, 2 systems' and secondly that expires in 2047. I can't see China having a democratic revolution any time soon.

The fact that the people living there had no interest in being part of the PRC makes it quite simple in my mind.

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Besides HK knows a lot more than the mainland, 2047 is not going to be an easy year