[jhanschoo]

Parent poster's comment unnecessarily villianizes Beijing's stance to the HK situation, but this comment is no better, and is flamewar-baiting.

> just allow a part of their country to secede

Organized HK protestors have a list of five demands and none of them involve secession. The only demand that involves a constitutional-level change is the demand for universal suffrage in HK to the HK government. They are not asking for any expansion of the powers of the HK govt.

> especially if the movement to do so was explicitly backed and funded by a foreign power (in the case of HK, the same foreign power that used to occupy that part of the country).

It is news to me that the UK govt. is expressing support for the aims of the movement beyond emphasizing their generic right to protest. Do you have a source?