The Independence Of Hong Kong

Bob Fu conveys clearly the inexorable control that Communist leaders in China have over their people. For example, after Fu and his friends participated in the Tiananmen Square protests, Fu was coerced, day in day out, to write a confession of his purported misdeeds against China and her people as a “counterrevolutionary” (79-82, 85, 87).

Even with her previous experiences at Beijing University and at Big Joy Farm, Wong still held some belief that the Chinese system wasn’t as bad as it was sometimes made out to be. This event proved to her that it was. “The enormity of the massacre hit home…Although it had been years since I was a Maoist, I still had harbored some small hope for China. Now even that was gone” (259). As a reporter Wong was able to view the progression of the protests in leading up to the massacre, and in viewing it understood that the Chinese people were much more independent than they had previously demonstrated over the past 50 years. She had continuously seen the Chinese people following what they were told between learning in school or with physical labor, yet this protest was one of the first large scale displays of the unacceptance of the regime by the people, and the government did not know what to do with it. But because of this, Wong was able to recognize that the people were not reliant on this way of life that they had previously been bound to, but truly could lead for themselves and take control. The massacre awakened Wong both to the reality that the government was not acting to benefit the people, and that the people were more than capable of acting for

To say Canada played an important role in World War Two would be an understatement. Canada’s significance in the war will forever be remembered as one of the greatest, and the Battle of Hong Kong is a prime example of just that. The fact that Canada provided troops even with the optional not to, and the struggles the troops endured not only on the battlefield, but as prisoners of war, and the amount of physical and moral support the Canadian soldiers gave to the British soldiers in Hong Kong is proof that Canada was a major contributor in World War Two.

Joshua Wong is a male teen activist who is now in his 20s. He fought during 2014 for democracy for Hong Kong and the rest of China. He had a political party named Scholarism, eventually, they split up and Joshua Wong now has a new political party, Demosistō. Both parties fought for democracy for China. He wants to fight for democracy for China because he does not like the current government system of the Chinese. Right now China is in a communist state/ like the Soviet Union was. A communist state is a type of government system in which the state plans and controls the economy and one single person (often an authoritarian) holds most of the power. Joshua Wong does not like this type of

On June 5, 1989, soldiers and tanks from China's People’s Liberation Army physically oppressed the student led protesters. The events surrounding this day are referred to as the Tiananmen Square Protest of 1989, a democracy movement calling for political and social reforms in the Republic of China. The deaths that occurred as a consequence of the Tiananmen Square Protest was not the fault of the students, but rather, the disastrous situation of China beforehand, the common belief that demonstrations would succeed, and the government’s obstinate decisions.

The Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 3-4 was a tragic incident where many pro-democracy demonstrators, mostly young college students, were fired upon by Chinese troops and tanks in order to suppress the protest. China’s Government has relentlessly sought to undermine the significance and memory of the crisis. As a result, even public references to any of the events that took place, all media, and protesting is heavily censored. However, never resolving the issues that triggered the rebellion, covering up these events and trying to lessen their importance may result in history repeating itself with a similar massacre. Countries to the west of China are not aware of the specific details of the Tiananmen Square Massacre- much less the protest

(Larsson, 1997). Would Hong Kong’s role as a door to China strengthen with the liberation?

The protests drew international attention through the press, specifically through the portrayal of the events with the “Tank Man” photograph, which allowed the Australian government to “justify counteractions” while warning the population that China would “be humiliated in the eyes of the world” while the protesters used the attention “to maximize public attention and sympathy” for their

This investigation will assess the significance of the propaganda that arose out of the student protesting Tiananmen Square in 1989. Using specifically the "Tank Man" photograph taken by Jeff Widener on the 5th of June 1989 during the protests, I will investigate the extent to which this piece of media influenced relations between Australia and China immediately after the events of the student protest. In short, the investigation will try and answer the question as to how influential western media coverage was in its representation of China and if it acted to highlight divisions in foreign relations.

The specific choice of topic arose from an interest in the iconic photograph, which encapsulates the resistance and opposition towards the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This investigation will assess the significance of the propaganda that arose out of the student protesting Tiananmen Square in 1989. Using the photographs, specifically the “Tank Man” photograph, taken by Jeff Widener on the 5th of June 1989 during the protests and smuggled out of China and published by western media, I will investigate the extent to which this piece of media influenced relations between Australia and China immediately after the events of the student protest. In short, this investigation considers and questions the influence western media coverage had in its

The Tiananmen Square Protests, otherwise known as the June Fourth incident, was a series of student led protests and demonstrations in Beijing, China during the spring of 1989. The protests were driven by goals to eliminate corruption within the Communist Party and promote democratic ideals such as freedom of speech, freedom of press and social equality. At the height of the protest from June 3-4, hundreds of thousands of students gathered around Tiananmen Square to protest, prompting military mobilization and resulting in unprecedented bloodshed. Though deemed by the Chinese government as a counter revolutionary act, the Tiananmen Square Protest remains an important event in shaping the political and social state of China today. Not only was the the protest instrumental in exposing the deep division within China’s political leadership, it also revealed that the future of China, comprised of students and intellectuals, was striving for a more democratic nation. With that being said, a highly debated question remains as to whether the Tiananmen Square Protest has led to more democracy in China, and how the event has influenced China’s political progress. On the contrary, the protest had a rather paradoxical impact on China’s regime. Rather than ending the rigid regime in place and bringing rise to democracy, Tiananmen led to the strengthening of the Communist party. The protests resulted

The Tiananmen Square Massacre may be one of the most important historical events that has occurred in China. Yet, many young Chinese today know little to nothing about the significant incident. This is due to the Chinese Government holding back as much information as they can to essentially make this topic irrelevant in the country. Without a doubt, the massacre began when the Government called for the use of military force against student-led demonstrations of the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989. This intervention led to turmoil, several deaths, arrests, changes in the government, and as well as a long lasting effect on China’s media and millennials.

No one can deny from recent news that there has been a strong surge of Chinese nationalism, and that this nationalism has turned heads in the international community. The nationalism that the CCP has affected is taking on a life of its own. In its strategy of pragmatic nationalism, the CCP tried to blur the lines between love of country with love of the state and governing body. What has resulted is a whole new breed of nationalism that is very much independent of the Chinese Communist Party and in fact has caused the CCP great concern. This new form of nationalism is much more vibrant, passionate, virulent and uncontrollable than the government had intended with its post 1989 strategy of obtaining legitimacy through nationalism. This

Since the end of the 1990s, there was a ‘baodiao [保釣, which means defending Diaoyu]’ campaign which emerged in mainland China (He, 2007 14). In March, 2004, these ‘baodiao’ activists actually succeeded in landing on the Senkaku islands (He, 2007, 14) (Yukio, 2012), as an act to protest the claims from Japan. These ‘baodiao’ movement is associated with the anti-Japanese movement. They also registered as a formal organization, known as the China Federation for Defending the Diaoyu Islands (CFDD) in Hong Kong and established its headquarters in Beijing (He, 2007, 14). The Senkaku islands’ dispute is among the contested sovereignty of China and Japan, which created the anti-Japan and anti-Chinese sentiment between the two states. PRC government, nonetheless shows its assertiveness over the sovereignty of the island. The firm stand of the government, thus, affects the development of Chinese nationalism as well, targeting the anti-Japanese sentiment to secure the public support over the PRC’s

There is a large diversity of people in Hong Kong because it continuously expands in economy and market. This of course, is a big advantage to our industry because although Precious Gems and Stones came in second to the Electronic equipment industries with a high dollar value of $82.4 billion and each export percentage share of 15.7% in terms of global shipments during 2014, the Precious Gems and Stones industry was the fastest growing among the top 10 export categories. It went up 161.1% for the 5-year period which started in 2010. It was also propelled by international sales of unwrought gold and unset diamonds. (worldstopexport.com)