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> Believe it or not, the average Chinese has a better grasp of their recent history than the average HN reader.

If that were true, there would be no reason for them to censor topics like tiananmen square

>They got their limited democracy in the last few years of British rule

And how long will China let them keep it?

4x longer than the British did, in any case. The CCP hasn't even proposed rolling back HK's limited democracy (so far, 22 years). And they've, so far, killed far fewer protestors than the British did.

As far as the first part.. you know this is living memory, right?

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