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Re:The Shadow of Tiananmen Falls on Hong Kong by JumpCrisscross on Sunday June 02, 2024 @04:50PM (#40557117)
Open to being corrected, but those were riots in Hong Kong, not riots against British rule.
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Re:The Shadow of Tiananmen Falls on Hong Kong by ethbr1 on Monday June 03, 2024 @09:33AM (#40562470)
I think it's fair to say the 80s riots were 'riots against the economic policies of the current administration, which was British.'

Given that the 1967 riots were explicitly CCP-supported, they've a clearer line to regime change as a goal.

And given the CCP was somewhat busy in the late 70s and early 80s rendering Mao's excesses anathema [0], it's unlikely they saw formenting revolution in Hong Kong as a priority.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_reform#1979...

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