Hong Kong financial firms brace for disruptions as protests intensify

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They have reached the state of protesting for the sake of protesting.
As proposed by David Webb, the effort should be spent on refining the candidate selection process which is likely a more acceptable solution to all parties.

Yeah as per posted...

http://www.valuebuddies.com/thread-5759-...l#pid97816

HKers are inherently pragmatic. As long no excessive violence is used and the police stays within the laws, the students have run out of political capital

If the protest are led by working people then after sometime they will disperse. Even happen so in Thailand because ultimately they have to work and feed the family.

But students feed on ideals and easily manipulated. They are actually more dangerous. LKY's tactic is to send police to their parents especially the mothers to warn them they are going to crack down and their children might get hurt. Let the mother do the job of bringing the children back. Recently China was smart to cordone off the entire Tian An Men and claim refurbishment, after there was a twitter call for gathering there

HKers are very pragmatic people. Their main purpose is 1 Oct so as long China can contain the crowd by 1 Oct I think they will disperse, except for the students maybe. China just need to impose some economic pain on HK and things will change... the carrot does not seemed to be working.