How do Hong Kong people avoid Tiananmen's fate?

The New York Times compares the protests in Hong Kong with those in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and the brutal crackdown by Chinese authorities that killed thousands of students 30 years ago.

The ruling Communist Party of China sees protests and demonstrations attracting people from across the political spectrum as its biggest enemy, the newspaper said in an article by university professor Madeleine Thein.

The author said that some politicians in Beijing described the demonstrators as terrorists, suggesting that there was a risk of young Hong Kong protesters being oppressed by the Chinese military, as was the case in the 1989 protests in which thousands of students occupied Tiananmen Square for several weeks ending with brutal repression by troops. Army.

According to the article, the scene of unarmed protesters who came out in Hong Kong to demand a better tomorrow is very similar to what happened during the Beijing demonstrations in the 1980s, despite the different context and the special situation of the province.

In order to avoid the fate of the Beijing demonstrations, the writer says that the demonstrators in Hong Kong must be a great deal of flexibility and perseverance and unity, and they must realize the fact that they will not be able to achieve their goals by force, noting that the population must wrap around the demonstrators and the urgent need to More popular support to achieve their goals and demands.

She said democratization in Hong Kong is in the interest of all parties, a fact that would help end the current crisis if it were absorbed by those close to Beijing's decision-makers and helped convince the ruling authority.

Support the international community

The author argues that the international community should support the right of protesters in Hong Kong to express their opinion, to demonstrate peacefully, to freedom of assembly and to have an independent judiciary, while cautioning against making the mistake of stirring up the rhetoric demanding Hong Kong's independence as a double-edged sword.

According to Thien, China's control of the media has allowed a misleading account of what is happening in Hong Kong by the official Chinese media, saying the city's residents are besieged by an outside cell, a story the Chinese authorities have long used to justify violence against protesters.

The author said that the Chinese authorities rely on force to resolve the political crises facing them, and that satellite images showed that China has mobilized at least 100 military vehicles and armored miles miles from Hong Kong.

She explained that China's economic plans to develop infrastructure and link Hong Kong with the rest of Chinese territory, specifically the Greater China Bay project, threatens to undermine the "one country, two systems" principle of Hong Kong's governance system.

For 150 years history has shown that Hong Kong's enjoyment of economic security and constitutional rights is not a threat to the Chinese regime.