In the article I read, Britain supposedly took over Hong Kong over a drug war in the 1830’s. Back then drugs were limited and people would go crazy for them. Late in the 1890’s Britain gave hong kong to the china to lease, after the policy one country two systems act with china for 50 years. The chinese were pressured to lease the island to london for 99 years. After the transfer hong kong already replaced the elected legislature by a select few of beijing businessmen. The government started firing people just because they advertised about their democracy, and the government was terrified of what was going to happen next.The banks thought that the decisions had become commercially based. Hong Kong tried to introduce a new school curricula into schools. They tried to change the education china had them on and change it into a “moral and national” education. “Some 90,000 students and citizens demonstrated against what they called “brainwashing” (Week 1). They were protecting against their rights and refused to be brainwashed by the government anymore. The city’s first direct ballot will be held in the year of 2017, which will be the election of Hong Kong’s chief executive. The voting will be a one person and one vote type of deal. Many people including the chinese are uneasy about this idea and are unsure of what kind of people Beijing will bring in. Beijing thinks that the candidates should be screened before allowed in Hong Kong. They also state that they never promised that Hong Kong could freely pick the candidates. So, then why are they letting them? Pro democracy people are worried about Hong Kong being like Iran and North Korea, But the chairman of the democrats says otherwise, and thinks that they will go by international standards. In my opinion this is all a mess and the country needs help or they are going to definitely be ruled by communist.
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