Hong Kong: Beijing Has Not Used All Its Resources

... election project and called for the right to hold direct elections for the post of head of the administration in 2017. But there is also a second (external) cause, which has intensified the domestic Chinese disturbances. It is linked to the growth of the USA’s influence and the encouragement of an atmosphere of protest – the same as we are observing in Ukraine and other places with “colour revolutions”. The protesters’ electoral technologies used in Hong Kong were extremely similar to those used in the Kiev Maidan. What are the demonstrators’ main demands? The demonstrators’ demands so far are quite spontaneous and contradictory. Their main message is that they want the “old” ...