Mista
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If you do not do thing that harm China interest, why would you be afraid?
What is 'China's interest' exactly, and how is it differently interpreted by mainland Chinese and HKers?
Take for an example, writing an article in HK about a top mainland official involving in a corruption scandal.
To mainland Chinese, the writer is a troublemaker and harming 'China's interest'.
To HKers, it's the individual's freedom of speech and political right to expose any criminal wrongdoings of corrupted officials.
So who's right and who's wrong?
You guys have different political and legal systems, different access to information, different political beliefs, and different interpretation of what a citizen's political and legal rights should be. And they will inevitably clash from time to time.
So what happens when these two different interpretations clash?
Of course we know that ultimately Beijing has the final say on who's 'right', and to HKers that is a breach of what they believe is 'one country two systems' and their rule of law.
Hence the protest, participated by even traditionally pro-mainland businesses.