October 12, 2019

In the wake of the months-long turmoil in Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) organized a public dialogue on Thursday that was attended by students and alumni, with an attempt at opening a communication  gateway between the university leaders and protesting students.  During this forum, a mainland student’s speech criticizing the extremity of Hong Kong’s anti-government students garnered wide-scale support online, especially among  mainland netizens.

Zhang Ting, a Chinese mainland student of the CUHK, made her statement in Putonghua during the conference  but she received backlash and abuses, from local students who opposed her stance. “If I don’t have a strong heart, I would be very scared when I am facing your insults and abuses. You are always blaming others, but you never think that it was you who are actually breaching the rule of law, destroying freedom and democracy of Hong Kong.”

Zhang told the Global Times that “I maintained a calm and peaceful demeanor, even when I was being abused with foul language,I ended my statement with a smile .”

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