I'm interested in how the takeover happened on the inside. How do you take control of a country with minimal drama when even small corporate takeovers get so messy? I assume there's been a lot of work to root out internal dissent, install aligned individuals, take control of computer systems. Even though the UK handed HK to China, there's got to have been people with strong feelings that created roadblocks along the way.

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mandeepj 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> there's got to have been people with strong feelings that created roadblocks along the way.

Look into 2019 protests

	▲	throw5g4e567 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It was big at the time, but ended up being a minor blip, and from what I read, there were no actual deaths caused by the police. There was one guy who fell down a high rise garage and there was a street cleaner who was killed by the protesters. Compare that to when the British were taking over Hong Kong, and hundreds of protesters were killed. I’ve always wondered what would have happened if the pandemic didn’t occur soon after. What’s crazy is the trigger was a Hong Kong national who killed his girlfriend in Taiwan. Taiwan wanted to extradite him but there was no law in place to do so. Apparently the killer is still free today.

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charlieyu1 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The prosperity in the 80-90s numbed people’ minds