Edit: a couple of typos/grammatic errors.
Isn't that pretty much "any country on earth that is strong enough to do that"? Civil society may protest all it wants, Iraq was still invaded. Another round of protests, but Libya was still bombed back into the dark ages.
> A second, smaller Bonus March in 1933 at the start of the Roosevelt administration was defused [...] with an offer of jobs [...] Those who chose not to work for the CCC by the May 22 deadline were given transportation home. In 1936, Congress [...] paid the veterans their bonus nine years early.
I'm going to go ahead and say this is reaching comparing it to Tiananmen square where thousands of peaceful protesters were killed by the army. Additionally, the government ordered the protesters killed, vs. some police in a heated situation firing.
> The MOVE members fired at them and a gunfight with semi-automatic and automatic firearms
Again, not saying the police did the right thing here, but MOVE was armed with illegal fully automatic weapons and was firing them at the police. This is very different from a peaceful protest being squashed by the army and then covered up by the government.
I feel like this is so obvious, it's strange it needs to be said? America makes mistakes all the time. But the core values are to admit those mistakes, and work to fix them, not cover it up.
How are you defining modern? Because the late modern period starts in the mid-18th century, which means Manifest Destiny has still yet to happen. The USA might not have a Tiananmen Square incident where they crush thousands all at once, but they definitely have crushed populations over time, in greater numbers.
It's a valid tactical play (one that was used in 2014 during the umbrella revolution) and bringing it up definitely adds to the discussion.
I'm not sure why it deserves downvotes. It's not in support of an authoritarian government and it's not like they're going to come here and find "brand new ideas" on what to do.
As the article states, the Chinese government has huge incentives to not crack down with military action potentially incurring financial suicide.
Why is China poising with its finger on the military tigger and why the downvotes?
edit: umbrella revolution was 2014, not 15.
1.7 million protestors means the protest is the local sentiment. The vast majority of native HKers are fully behind the protests. As would you be if your lifetime home was being forcefully taken over by China.
The success of the ruling party may well depend on their ability to exert their will and control over the non-Core territories (and to an extent at least perceptually Taiwan) and keep the whole of what they’ve been selling as China as one.
It’s not what it is that makes them important in this context it’s what it represents to the PRC.