WILL CHINA SEND IN THE TROOPS?

 Will the protests in Hong Kong and the vandalising of the legislative council HQ provoke a military intervention by China, to attempt to subdue the once British-controlled region?

It was just 23 years ago that UK gave up the territory to China, and 23 years is not really long enough for locals to forget about the benefits of Britain and democracy.

And Hong Kong citizens weren’t required to forego their English ways because China did agree to guarantee Hong Kong's economic and political systems for 50 years after the transfer – you’ll know the phrase, ‘one country, two systems’.

Onto the streets

Like Brits back home, the locals know that if you resent something badly enough, or fear a likely move by government, get out onto the streets and make your ill-feelings known.

Which of course, the ex-colonials did this weekend.

Not so very long ago, from a historical point of view, transfer of ownership of a country would be performed by the military, with no reference to local opinion.

Locals would do as they were ordered, or be shot. Often, it seems, they were shot anyway. Continues on the blogs for my ocean adventuring book, Sailing to Purgatory, at 
http://sailingtopurgatory.com/index.php/feeds/411-will-china-send-in-the-troops