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for context, this is entirely incorrect.
xi is not "brilliant"(he was very lucky to become PM when he did), and he is losing control.
not just xinjiang, but many provinces of China have been separating themselves from Beijing and trying to declare independence for years.
xi obviously have no control over Taiwan, although they're trying to brute force the government.
Shanghai is very international and doesn't want to be associated with Beijing.
Hong Kong obviously doesn't consider itself as governed by Beijing.
and despite the constant violent dictator tactics, China has persistent protests in every province by brave Chinese citizens standing up and calling out the human rights abuses, the broken economic promises, the countless domestic and foreign political failures of China, the insane quarantine measures taken fruitlessly being a good recent example, the complete collapse of their housing market after the government encouraged everyone to invest all of their life savings in real estate being another.
xi's "iron fist" is gripping sand, and it is falling through his fingers.
I mean you say that but Hong Kong got it pretty hard.
HK is still being invaded, and everything I wrote above is still correct.
HK citizens are still resisting, they have almost daily protests and resistance actions; xi is in no way ruling with an iron fist.
he is actively losing his grip.
can you elaborate on "daily protests"? i feel like things are pretty calm now after national security law passed.
"can you elaborate on "daily protests"?"
sure, i can even give you the relevant quote from the comment you're referencing.
"...almost daily protests and resistance actions..."
"...almost daily..." means something happening almost every day.
so if you were eating spaghetti Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, you'd be eating spaghetti every day.
but if you ate spaghetti Monday, Tuesday, skipped Wednesday, and then ate spaghetti Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, you'd be eating spaghetti almost every day.
now replace spaghetti with protests and resistance actions.
"protests" are public demonstrations of resistance against a policy (holding a sign, chanting, sitting on the roadway)
resistance actions don't necessarily imply a public aspect (graffiti, coordinating a protest, wearing a mask)
relax dude. i'm not trying to debate you "daily" or "almost daily", i'm just curious what current situation is like.
chill.out bro, I answer the questions I'm asked.
it's pretty much what I described earlier:
grassroots protests and activism, lots of political prisoners, corrupt Beijing officials being pushed into local offices,
No, it's definitely not common chill, there's a media blackout on any protests, like Beijing is literally replacing the heads of newspapers tv, radio stations, podcasts with party loyalists and trying to stem the news of the protests so that people think things have calmed down.
but people in Hong Kong are definitely fighting back.
I don't really have a prediction on how it's going to end.
xi collapsing, xi militarily invading and completely taking over Hong Kong by force, an extended guerilla war, a treaty that basically annexes Hong Kong, it's pretty difficult to tell with the amount of wealth and influence Hong Kong has versus the simultaneous waning of xi but still significant power of Chinese nationalism, The support of external countries to make sure China doesn't expand.
there are too many wildly potent variables to currently predict what's going to happen with any on out to accuracy, any one of which could completely change the entire conflict.
Thats the thing about ruling with an iron fist. It works for a short time, but the ones oppressed are just looking for any reason to create your downfall. And there are a lot of oppressed people right now.