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Many of those students were Maoists/Marxist book club members. They were upset with Dengist reforms. There was some noise maybe 2-3 years ago about similar student groups raising their hackles again but nothing came of it. Maybe Xi is more reassuring.

Same thing applies to HK - many of the early protestors in the last few years were trade unionists, anarchists and communists. There are legitimate reasons to criticize China and some of their labor policies, at least among friends. But then it got co-opted by empire, like it always does. Really sucked.