what knowhow? Finance? Good riddance. China doesn’t need more blood sucking vampire squids.
Plenty of mainlanders nowadays that are far better educated, more cosmopolitan, well traveled than HKers.
The people rioting in HK are not going to be the ones who hold any key skills or much wealth, or they wouldn’t be rioting in the first place!
I think that the foreign forces targeted a very specific demographic within HK society to get maximum take up and buy in, and also to limit the likelihood of exposure.
Most of the radicalisation and indoctrination seemed to have taken place in ‘soft’ subjects, which in itself is a good indicator of just how well these people are doing in life and society. I mean no disrespect to social sciences and arts, but we all know what kind of people chooses subjects like ‘liberal studies’ as electives in Chinese societies.
The top students would not touch such subjects with a barge pole, and even at that early stage, one’s future prospects are already pretty much set.
That is potentially a problem that needs to be looked into, but it’s really a two way street. If you choose a low-effort subject that doesn’t stretch you intellectually or teach you much transferable skills, employers will look down on you no matter what country or society you live in. You can’t blame anyone but yourself if you chose the easy way out and end up regretting it.
One of the truly admirable aspects of modern China is the amazing and real social mobility within society. More so than any other society on earth, hard work and raw talent has the greatest chance of allowing you to improve your station and elevate your social economic position drastically as in modern China. It seems that HK has instead copied the stale British class system.
A rather unique characteristic of modern China, that explains this intense social mobility, is the investment and motivation of the whole society, and not just the higher classes.
Anyone who has been through the Chinese education system will know just how intensely involved and invested good Chinese parents are in the education of their children if they want their child to have the best chances at getting into a good school.
As such, it is inconceivable that the lies and propaganda being taught in HK schools could have gone unexposed for so long had this happened in mainland China. I can pretty much guarantee that if someone managed to sneak such material into mainland Chinese schools, you will have irate parents protesting the very next day about it, as good mainland parents knows what their children are learning almost better than the children themselves.
I believe that good HK parents are similarly motivated, but that because of the adaption British class structure, you have large segments of society who are pretty much resigned to being stuck in the bottom of society. The parents are not engaged with the education of their children because there is very limited social mobility possible no matter how well you do in school. They just blame government and society for all their ills, and it is here that the west has found fertile ground for their poison.
The west is especially apt at exploiting this element of society because they are intimately familiar with how they work since they have these back home. China OTOH, are not as familiar with such elements of society because in mainland China, very few people have such mindsets, and society actively rejects such mindsets and behaviour, so there is absolutely no support for this kind of thinking.
What western agents have managed to very successfully do is to use the same racist and xenophobic language and tactics as the hard right in western societies to get these lower class people to pin all the blame for their low social economic status on ‘foreigners’ aka mainlanders, who ‘steal jobs’, ‘drive up property prices’, you know, the same right wing standard issue drivel. Only they also added anti-establishment sentiments to the mix.
That is why there are so many similarities between the HK protest movement and western far-right neo-nazis. They basically just took the new-nazi indoctrination playbook and used it in HK.
