Introduction
We are interested in a student demonstration of Hong Kong reported in recent news. And we checked Hong Kong.
↑ To protect oneself from gas by umbllera
The present conditions
2014 Hong Kong protests began on 26 September. College students and high school students in Hong Kong are the main protestors. At first, their protest was calm. For example, boycott or sit a long time. But their protest became violent. For example, a lot of people did violent behaviour. The police used the pepper spray and tear gas many times.
The history
Hong Kong is a historic city. It was created in 1842. The population of Hong Kong is 700 million people. Area’s extent is 1104km2. Is densely populated areas. Hong Kong was one of the cities in China until 1840. But, it was the British territory from 1842 to 1941.This is the impact of the war. Also 100 years later, then it was Japan territory in 1941-1945.After World War II, It was a British territory again. It is a few decades later. Hong Kong was returned to China. It was in 1997.After that, it to the present. By the way, do you think one of the countries of Hong Kong? Actually, Hong Kong is a Chinese city. But, this is a special area. Because, it is the special administrative regions of Chinese government. What do you think the special administrative regions are? It is can work the same as the Chinese government. So, I will introduce the special administrative regions. There is the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and two country and city in the world. That is Greenland and Macau. One of the special administrative regions is Hong Kong. But, there is a challenge. Hong Kong government and the mainland government do not function well with each other. There is opinion that, “Hong Kong is a new area.” in the background.
↑Stand for independence of Hong Kong from U.K
Why does the independent movement in Hong Kong?
Hong Kong became the first special administrative region under the principle of the one nation, two systems in 1997 and Hong Kong has a political system unlike China. In the case of return from the U.K. to the People's Republic of China, authorities promised definitely, "they did not change political system after Hong Kong return for 50 years". But, it is caused by the issue in human rights that antipathy for the Chinese government increases. The Hong Kong citizens more than 90% cannot participate in choosing their leaders now. The reason why it becomes such a system is that they do not let the population elect the person who does not comply with will of the Beijing government on the top of Hong Kong. The Chinese government decided that they performed universal suffrage from 2017, but, actually, the situation is not so strange.
The people in Hong Kong don’t demand independence and seem to appeal for human rights. The experts tell that the people of Hong Kong only demand the democratic government and high self-governance. However, we do not know whether people of Hong Kong want to become independent from China. The independence has a plan that it is difficult.
Summary
We think that this demonstration won’t finish instantly. It’s because many people in Hong Kong can’t be concern with their politics and they have dissatisfaction. So, Chinese government should adopt a policy that citizen in Hong Kong can join the election.
↑ Hong Kong people continue to stay in place until the night.
Reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests