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Letters | Why China’s Xi Jinping need not fear Hong Kong’s democracy movement
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Over 70 million people in the world today have fled their countries in desperation. We could say that these countries are bleeding. This emigration is just the beginning. An exodus explosion is expected when, because of increased climate crises, we will see the spread of deserts, rising sea levels and extinctions of species making a huge area of land uninhabitable.
China is also bleeding. Thousands of Uygurs and Tibetans have fled China. A huge stream of people from the mainland have for years arrived in Hong Kong, many having swum across shark infested waters, and they continue to arrive.
China is also bleeding internally. Westernisation has cut China off from its cultural roots. Its huge clans and agriculture have been submerged under the pressure of Western capitalism, industrialisation, the nuclear family, individualism, the trade war, consumerism, secular materialism, sciences, Marxism, past colonialism and racism.
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In addition to overpopulation, the country has an adverse sex ratio: 34 million more men than women due to a large number of female fetuses being aborted when the one-child policy was in force.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is understandably anti-West. But how come he only sees Western democracy as the reason for China’s woes, but swallows other Western features with delight?
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When Xi realises he actually is 90 per cent pro-Western and that Hong Kong is not bleeding migrants despite its democracy movement, he may take a milder stance towards the city.
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