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  • Hong Kong holds local elections.

  • And Beijing is shocked and humiliated by the results.

  • Welcome back to China Uncensored.

  • I'm Chris Chappell.

  • Hong Kong has been engulfed in protests for nearly six months now.

  • People are upset about the Chinese Communist Party

  • for increasingly interfering in their city,

  • and encroaching on their freedoms.

  • They're also upset about the police tear gassing people.

  • And beating them up.

  • And spraying them with water cannons.

  • And arresting them.

  • Did I mention the tear gassing?

  • More recently, some of the protesters have reacted

  • by throwing molotov cocktails and setting fires to keep the police from...

  • doing all those things to them.

  • Pro-Beijing officials make up the majority of Hong Kong's government.

  • And for months, they've been demanding that protesters follow the rule of law.

  • And so on Sunday, Hong Kongers did follow the rule of law

  • by voting out hundreds of pro-Beijing officials.

  • Sunday was Hong Kong's district council elections.

  • Now these are small local elections,

  • which don't usually get that many votes.

  • But this year,

  • Hong Kong saw an unprecedented voter turnout of 71%.

  • It's the largest voter turnout in any Hong Kong election, ever.

  • Voters lined up around the block at polling stations.

  • Wow.

  • Nobody gets this excited about local elections

  • except Leslie Knope.

  • And even more shocking, Pan-Democrat candidates

  • who support the protest movement

  • won 85% of district council seats.

  • For comparison, in the 2015 district council election,

  • it broke down like this,

  • with Pan-Dems  winning only 126 seats.

  • This year, they won 385 seats.

  • That makes them the majority

  • in 17 out of 18 district councils in Hong Kong.

  • And Hong Kongers were out on the streets celebrating.

  • Including this nice lady,

  • who was pouring champagne for the crowd.

  • You know what Domrignon tastes like in a paper cup?

  • It tastes like victory.

  • For months, pro-Beijing newspapers in Hong Kong and China

  • had claimed that most Hong Kongers

  • supported the police cracking down on protesters,

  • and that those peopleare representing the silent majority.”

  • And for months,

  • Chinese state-run media had called for Hong Kong's

  • silent majorityto not stay silent.

  • Well, they were half right:

  • Thesilent majority” *didn't* stay silent.

  • They were just wrong about what the silent majority had to say.

  • Now, these newly elected Hong Kong district council members

  • won't get to decide a lot of big picture things in Hong Kong.

  • They mainly handle local things,

  • like where to put traffic lights and garbage cans.

  • Next year's elections for the Legislative Council will be more meaningful,

  • since those legislators get to pass laws.

  • But these local District Councils do get to choose

  • about 10% of the representatives

  • who vote for the next Hong Kong chief executive.

  • Even though that system is rigged, so it can ultimately be controlled by Beijing.

  • Nonetheless, Sunday's District Council election results are huge.

  • They're indisputable proof that the majority of Hong Kong

  • voters are unhappy with how the government

  • and police have been handling the protests.

  • And Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam

  • understands that voters are upset with the government.

  • We were aware of the large number of voters

  • coming out to cast a vote,

  • perhaps not only to select a preferred candidate

  • to sit on the district council,

  • but also to express a view on many issues in society, including,

  • I will readily accept that,

  • including deficiencies in governance,

  • including unhappiness with the time taken

  • to deal with the current unstable environment.”

  • No.

  • No!

  • They're not unhappy that you haven't dealt with the protesters!

  • They're unhappy that your government has refused to listen to the protesters,

  • and instead allowed the police to do the whole thing with the tear gas,

  • and the beatings,

  • and the water cannons, and the arrests,

  • and the tear gas.

  • The people are unhappy with *you*,

  • Carrie Lam.

  • Even a lot of the pro-establishment

  • politicians don't like you either,

  • because your handling of the Extradition Bill

  • was what led to six months of protests

  • and their stunning defeat at the polls.

  • Anyway, the election results were not just a shock

  • to tone-deaf Carrie Lam.

  • They were also a shock to tone-deaf

  • Communist Party officials in Beijing.

  • According to Foreign Policy editor James Palmer,

  • Beijing genuinely thought they were going to win big in the elections...

  • to the point of having pre-written the stories.”

  • That's embarrassing.

  • The Global Times adjusted their coverage

  • to accuse Hong Kong protesters

  • of having a “political agenda.”

  • I mean, that's...true.

  • Their political agenda was to use the democratic process

  • to win seats in government.

  • That's what elections are for.

  • Meanwhile state-run China Daily created this handy infographic

  • to show how the protesters stopped people from voting.

  • Which is funny, because Sunday

  • actually had highest voter turnout in Hong Kong history.

  • Might want to re-think that one, China Daily.

  • Hong Kong-based author ofCity on FireAntony Dapiran

  • writes thatBeijing appears to have been genuinely surprised by this result

  • and Beijing does not like to be surprised

  • by anything that happens within its borders.”

  • Which is why Beijing is no fun at birthday parties.

  • Surprise!

  • So will China's communist leaders

  • look at these District Council election results

  • and engage in genuine self-reflection?

  • Not a chance!

  • As Dapiran writes, “This election result will not be seen by Beijing

  • as a sign that they need to change tack in their approach to Hong Kong.

  • It will not be the catalyst for some grand compromise.

  • It will be seen as a sign that the Hong Kong people

  • are making the wrong choice,

  • and action needs to be taken to correct them.”

  • Fortunately, Beijing has ways to help correct people's wrong thinking.

  • They want to introduce patriotic education in Hong Kong schools,

  • and a national security law to further restrict Hong Kongers' freedom.

  • And if those don't work,

  • there's always simply telling the police to crack down harder.

  • I mean, if savagely beating people doesn't make them like you,

  • I don't know what will.

  • So what do you think about the Hong Kong elections?

  • Leave your comments below.

  • And now it's time for me to answer a question

  • from a fan who supports China Uncensored

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  • So viewer support is the main way we can pay our staff,

  • travel to places like Hong Kong,

  • and keep making this show.

  • Here's today's question.

  • Adam C. asksHow fast did this get demonetized?”

  • Ah, you're talking about my video from two days ago,

  • where I started out talking about pandas,

  • hoping the video wouldn't get demonetized.

  • Well, it was instantly demonetized.

  • That was a decision made by YouTube's artificial intelligence bots.

  • Then I appealed that decision.

  • That was on Friday afternoon.

  • By Saturday evening, about 30 hours later,

  • a human at YouTube had reviewed it,

  • and confirmed that it should *not* have been demonetized.

  • That's good news!

  • So by the time the video was finally made public on Monday,

  • it was, in fact, monetized with ads.

  • But waiting 30 hours to enable ads is a long time,

  • and we usually don't get that long.

  • For most of our episodes,

  • we publish them as soon as Seamus is done editing the video.

  • That means they go public,

  • get instantly demonetized, and then,

  • after an entire day of losing all the revenue,

  • a YouTube human will review it.

  • They usually re-monetize it.

  • Which is to say,

  • YouTube humans are acknowledging

  • that the AI bots are *wrong most of the time*.

  • Sadly, that wrong-ness costs us thousands of dollars a month!

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