Communism is the worst form of government in the world. The people are chattel with chronic oppression, even the wealthy are possessions of the state. There is no respect for human life and their life spans are shorter than their counterparts in the West by more than ten years.
Oppression of people inhibits their creativity and destroys their sense of hope and future. The trauma the people of Hong Kong are experiencing will live with them forever and effect the city's outcomes.
China has done the worst thing they could in treating the people of Hong Kong as chattel and identifying them as hate mongers and trouble makers. They are not, but, China is definitely hating the people of Hong Kong and has forced them to destroy the city they loved for the sake of their own thoughts and freedoms.
China agreed to a treaty that respected people and provided generations of time to allow a different understanding of life, but, not one where a citizen is worthless and worthy of death.
In the United States of America where freedom of expression is vital to life, protesters are taken to a police station, booked, put before a judge and fined $50.00 for costs. When the judge asks them if they are guilty, they say, "Hell, yeah" and walk out of the courtroom prepared to make their statement to the country all over again.
With China, a demonstrator is lucky to ever be seen again if not killed. In the USA it is why the deaths at Kent State were an abomination. They were a statement of a government that didn't know its people, didn't value them nor cared about their lives.
China has committed human rights violations in Hong Kong and it needs to make amends to the people there.
