China Spring?

https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/world/why-china-fears-sending-the-tanks-into-hong-kong/ar-AAISIpm?ocid=spartanntp

The begins of the radicalization of the Hong Kong population.

The peaceful demonstrations that have regularly drawn hundreds of thousands of residents into the streets since the summer have included many older people, as well as plenty of residents from other segments of the population long assumed to be conservative or at least acquiescent, whether civil servants or business people.

This blocking of any path forward that would permit more self-determination under Chinese sovereignty – as promised when Britain handed Hong Kong back to the mainland in 1997 – has led to a marked radicalization of Hong Kong’s population this year, and created a revolt of the middle class.

Direct election of the city’s leaders.

Two decades ago, many scholars began predicting that as China’s creation of wealth continued to speed ahead, the country would cross a threshold.

Once a substantial new middle class had been created, they reasoned, politics would tip decisively in a more participatory, possibly even democratic, direction.  Especially with the income gap widen in cities and housing woo.

Now, however, this long-expected revolt of the middle class has arrived – not from China itself, but from Hong Kong.