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To: ggersh who wrote (107840)	10/4/2014 12:07:18 PM
From: Lazarus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217789

Of course its a daydream The protests will never spill over into the rest of China, the newspaper added. "For the minority of people who want to foment a 'color revolution' on the mainland by way of Hong Kong, this is but a daydream." China's government is repressive and they are not going to let the people get out of hand. Tiananmen Square was no big deal from the standpoint of China's rulers. THEY KNOW that if the people get out of hand they can dispose of them at a rate of 17 per minute [one person every 3.5 seconds] for an entire year without reducing the population below the birth rate. IOW, if the govt wipes out ~9 million of its own people, that merely accounts for ~ years worth of births. If they had to wipe out a 100 million people to keep things tidy it would be no big deal for China; they could simply lift their 1 child per family law and they're back to business as usual. China would be more repressive than it is, but for the world [READ: THE WEST] watching them. That's why prior to the Olympics they try to get the people to stop spitting everywhere and close down all the doggy diners. They want to appear to the rest of the world to be more civilized than they are.

To: ggersh who wrote (107840)	10/5/2014 8:43:51 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217789

am in osaka for 2 nights engaging w/ the japanese who wish to engage with we who do his work would say the city lacks a certain metropolis-feel and is seriously depopulating would not be able to start much of protest here re hong kong, people, the silent majority, are getting fed up, and led by the lower 70% the students, privileged w/ low / subsidized tuition, shall soon enough learn that they must up their game, study mandarin, engage w/ the new sovereign, or ... have no future the refusal to drop cantonese and the failure to keep up w/ mainlanders in english capability shall haunt the students the second they exit universities