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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
It's similar to what happened with England and the 13 American colonies. Hong Kong residents don't consider themselves to be Chinese they want sovereignty over themselves.

gpt
A lot of Hong Kong residents ~~aren't even~~ are Chinese, but they're culturally Cantonese. And this all started with the extradiction law that protestors were able to squash, and now they feel emboldened.