Hong Kong Tragedy - A brief analysis of the reasons for the failure of the Hong Kong revolution
By Carl J Chan
During the Hong Kong Revolution2019-2020, more than one million people demonstrated peacefully on the streets of Hong Kong, but the Chinese Communist Party sent rioters to act as demonstrators and then brainwashed 1.4 billion mainland Chinese people through the news to make them believe that Hong Kong people are violent.
But the Chinese Communist Party's violent takeover of Hong Kong's democracy and freedom was not completed overnight. Beijing's first step was to violently take over Hong Kong's media and plant a large number of spies.
Hong Kong once had the best civic education in the world. Hong Kong TV and radio and other licensed media need to compensate the society with "public service advertisements",so Hong Kong’s television and news industry was once the most civilized in the world, with public service advertisements broadcast continuously every day to guide people to be good citizens,the content of the public service advertisements covered preventing corruption, popularize traffic regulations, adult vocational education, house maintenance, and health and epidemic prevention,ETC!
The failure of freedom and democracy in Hong Kong is a sad page in human history, because it was once so brilliant; it was the dawn of democracy for 1.4 billion people. After "returning to China" in 1997, the Hong Kong government, religious groups, and wealthy people have provided a lot of assistance to mainland China, and "Hope Primary Schools" funded by Hong Kong people have sprung up all over mainland China.
I understand the epic tragedy of Hong Kong from a larger context: the Chinese people’s lack of deep criticism of Chinese culture, and the numbness of the people’s “frogs in warm water”.
What I mean is that when millions of young people in Hong Kong took to the streets, it was not just because of the motivation of freedom and democracy, but also because of a bigger reality: survival.
After Beijing opened up "Hong Kong Free Travel" to 1.4 billion Chinese people, the small island of Hong Kong was overwhelmed. There was even a shortage of infant formula in Hong Kong due to Chinese people rushing to buy it,at the time,the forces from northern China have overshadowed Hong Kong politics, the government and financial groups control the land supply, and in the most prosperous city in the world, young people in Hong Kong are desperate for housing.
Revolutionary situations are always bad. Whether a revolution succeeds or fails, it will have a lasting impact on society. For human progress, sometimes 40 or 400 years is short.
