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I've been pretty amazed by the pictures of some 1.7-million crowd I just saw in the media here.
People around here in France are stuck in distrust and skepticism anyway. E.g., my mom herself who knows the place a little bit and says they don't have a chance against the Chinese dictatorial regime.
She says the regime grew really powerful as it has somehow managed to improve the Chinese standard of living over the past couple of decades, then people would be sort of blinded, so to speak.
They just need to satisfy their basic material greed for now, and won't really think of any real ideal until they get bloated.

Of course, this place is quite different with some moral and all, but they are so small next to the relentless Chinese empire...
Bah, you got to deal with it somehow.