08-03-2019, 08:21 AM
** 03-Aug-2019 World View: Hong Kong generational split
I've been watching the Hong Kong coverage on the BBC, and
right at this moment it appears that the police are about
to make a move to push the pro-democracy protesters back.
There may be more violence in the next hour.
The BBC reporter made some interesting generational comments.
The pro-democracy protesters are almost all very young --
students, civil servants. They've all presumably grown up
since the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China.
There's a separate smaller pro-Beijing demonstration going on,
on the other side of the harbor, and the BBC reporter says
that they're mostly elderly people.
I've been watching the Hong Kong coverage on the BBC, and
right at this moment it appears that the police are about
to make a move to push the pro-democracy protesters back.
There may be more violence in the next hour.
The BBC reporter made some interesting generational comments.
The pro-democracy protesters are almost all very young --
students, civil servants. They've all presumably grown up
since the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China.
There's a separate smaller pro-Beijing demonstration going on,
on the other side of the harbor, and the BBC reporter says
that they're mostly elderly people.