31st August 2004, 10:09 AM
alien space marine Wrote:China kept Hong Kong going as a experiment to see how a capitalist economy would do compared to their communist one.Also since some people in Hong Kong were either going to leave or perhaps start a popular rebelion and revolt which would pressure England to reconcider handing back Hong Kong concidering that it would cause bloodshed, So mainland China had no choice but to leave the democracy there,But peoples civil liberties can be suspended if China wants to and they even passed a law prohibiting Hong Kongers from critising the Chinese mainland communist goverment the punnishment would be time in jail or even death, Also the mainland goverment has censored the internet in Hong Kong to coincide with the law.
Where did you hear that? It's true that China has been doing some sneaky things in Hong Kong which has resulted in massive riot on that island, but I never heard of a law prohibiting Hong Kongers from critisizing the government, since they do it all of the time. And there's no censorship by Mainland China in HK. Any censorship is done by the HK government and was there even when England owned HK.