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Public actions like the ones in the story linked below make me think different.

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3020639/c...

The action in question involved 3 mainland students and one Hong Kong student.

How many people live in mainland China? 1.3B. How many people live in Hong Kong? 7.4M. How many overseas Chinese are there? 50M. How many overseas Hongkongers? About 1.5M.

You can bet that if there is any one such incident happening in the globe, the press will seize on it, because it fits the current media narrative and gets clicks. By the numbers, though, you're looking at 1 in a million.

It may not represent the majority of overseas Chinese or even many but it is the view I get from media.

That should tell you a lot about the media.

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