The people of east germany. The new strands for commerce for german unity journalist peter borg was about to see. 30 years leaders who looks back on the time interest or. Stretch to summer 90 g. W. The. Last sundays election in hong kong may have been strictly local but it sent a signal straight to the heart of made lunch china in the face of an increasingly violent standoff between 12 democracy protesters and hong kong to beijing back to government a Record Number of voters turned out for the poll and handed a Landslide Victory to prodemocracy candidates for the citys local District Councils the resulting defeat took hong kongs beleaguered government by surprise and up the pressure on beaching will that make a crackdown on the protesters more difficult or
a more likely cause Hong Kong Elections wake up call for a big change thats our topic. On. Welcome to to the point weve invited 3 highly knowledgeable guests to exchange views on what the Hong Kong Election result could mean hunch wh
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that s this this water metaphor that hong kong protesters have of use i don t think nowadays with the technological means that baking has you need a crackdown with tanks i m very pessimistic though about. whether beijing is going to give the protesters more room i think they re slowly working their way through the ranks and putting pressure on them but every possible means and i m afraid in some ways this is going to work because they re making people s lives felt so how would you answer the question that was at the end of our report just now how much violence is legitimate under such circumstances i don t think the violence has done the protest a great service you know better how to negotiate with your own government from a foreign perspective this has really undermined the narrative and it has given the big propaganda. present to beijing because they could argue
that s the this water metaphor that hong kong protesters have of use i don t think nowadays with the technological means that beijing has you need to crack down with tanks i m very pessimistic though about. whether beijing is going to give the protesters more room i think they re slowly working their way through the ranks and putting pressure on them with every possible means and i m afraid in some ways this is going to work because they re making people s lives felt so how would you answer the question that was at the end of our report just now how much violence is legitimate under such circumstances i don t think the violence has done the protest a great service you know better how to negotiate with your own government from a foreign perspective this has really undermined the narrative and it has given a big propaganda. present to beijing because they could argue
like they still have to use to do this and this is this is very sad to me to listening to that that they are trying to sacrifice themselves. ever since the protests began there s been a lot of speculation about whether beijing would eventually authorize a tiananmen square type crackdown in other words a violent repression of the protests now surely this election result discredits beijing as well as kerry lamb does that make a crackdown a war or less likely. i would hope medium term i would hope it makes it less likely i don t think it would work in hong kong because this is not like genom and the central square with a lot of people the protests to souls. and and evaporate that s this this water metaphor that hong kong protesters have of use i don t think nowadays with the technological means that beijing has you need to crack down with