In 1992 I was aboard a US Navy ship that stopped in Hong Kong for three days. I loved the place. It was prior to the turn-over to China from England (a mistake of epic proportion). They are finally, really flexing their muscles:

HONG KONG (AP) - Angered by Beijing's decision ruling out full democracy in Hong Kong, hundreds of thousands of people marched Thursday to demand the right to choose their leader.

"We don't want to be subservient to the central government," said Ben Kwok, a 40-year-old factory owner, as the crowd clogged streets and turned much of downtown Hong Kong into a sprawling but peaceful protest zone.

Organizers claimed 530,000 people had marched - a turnout that would put the rally on par with one that jolted the Chinese and Hong Kong governments exactly a year earlier. Police offered a lower estimate, saying about 200,000 people were there by midway through the five-hour demonstration.

China would never attempt a Tiananmen Square assault with Bush in office, and perhaps the good folks of Hong Kong know this. Keep it up.