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Re:China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong by nickik on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:47PM (#23260854)
It maybe was not democratic, but its pretty hard to complain about your rulers if they transformed a poor small town into one of the richest places in the world, with pretty much every freedom of a comparable western democracy arguable in many aspects more free.

Exactly how were the people not free, in the 1980s?

Do you think its impossible to have freedom without local democracy?

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Re:China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong by free_rms on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:40PM (#23262938)
That's actually how a lot of mainland Chinese feel about their government, and I can sympathize with them to an extent.

But it doesn't undo other things about their government, it's just a fuller picture. Same applies to UK colonialism.

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