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Protests are fairly common in Hong Kong and they’re usually handled peacefully by law
enforcement.. That is until this past week, when police showed up in military gear and used tear gas
on a protest group called Occupy Central.. A move that is being seen by some as a clear sign that China and Hong Kong's pro-China
chief executive are changing their tune on civil unrest.
So, why is the Chinese government more aggressively cracking down now and what is really happening
in Hong Kong?. Well, Hong Kong was under British rule until 1997, when the city was handed back over to
the Chinese.. That came with some caveats designed to establish Hong Kong as a “Special Administrative Region”
of China with more self-representation, democracy and freedom than other regions under Chinese
control.. The exact level of these freedoms was not explicitly laid out in the original deal and
now there is some concern that China could assert more control over Hong Kong than expected.
That is the central issue of this conflict.. The Occupy Central movement wants a high level of autonomy including full democratic elections
by 2017, something that has been promised to Hong Kong since 1997.
The Chinese Government wants a less autonomous Hong Kong and more control over elections.
China will most likely allow the 2017 general elections, but they also recently announced
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