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Hong Kongers, and especially the city\u2019s students, have been on the streets for five months now. This has become an existential cause for many of them, and they are showing few, if any, signs of weariness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their struggle has intriguing echoes of the \u201cspirit of struggle\u201d that Xi Jinping urges on the Chinese people, a phrase he used sixty times in a speech to officials at the Central Party School in Beijing last week. The development of Marxism and of a socialist nation was full of difficult struggles, the president said, and achieving a great dream also takes a great struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of China\u2019s more persistent stereotypes, especially among the northern mandarin elite of the imperial and now the communist dynasties, is that the Cantonese-speaking people of the south \u2014 especially Hong Kongers \u2014 are greedy folk readily satisfied by the opportunity to make money. How hollow that perception seems today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please click here to read the full “Hong Kong\u2019s spirit of struggle”<\/a> article published at Inside Story, written by Griffith Asia Institute Industry Fellow, Rowan Callick. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hong Kongers, and especially the city\u2019s students, have been on the streets for five months now. This has become an existential cause for many of them, and they are showing few, if any, signs of weariness. 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