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Re:The jailing of Hong Kong’s young pro-democracy leaders  by fatjokes on Thursday October 05, 2017 @12:38PM (#15410532)
> The HK Chinese were however much better off at the time under British rule than the mainland Chinese were under China's. China was kind of a mess at the time.

Perhaps materially, but on principle I don't think anyone would want to be considered second-class.

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Re:The jailing of Hong Kong’s young pro-democracy leaders  by tim333 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @02:35PM (#15411488)
Most of the mainland Chinese were second-class to the communist party insiders back then and couldn't even travel around China without special permits.
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