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Why There Won't be an Occupy Beijing

| October 21, 2014

In 1986, three years before the tragic Tiananmen Square Protests in 1989, Chinese youth demonstrated for the very reason we saw many Hong Kong students take to the streets in recent weeks: the promise and then retraction of electoral reform. Given the deep history of student activism in China, can we expect to see mainland Chinese students protesting for political change any time soon? Probably not, because promises have to be made to be broken. Since 1989, Beijing has effectively closed off debate in the political realm and has refrained from extending promises of democratic reform to its mainland audience....

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For Academic Citation: Kim, Patricia.“Why There Won't be an Occupy Beijing.” The Diplomat, October 21, 2014.

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