please welcome, louisa lim. thai so much for being here. 's the book, "the people's republic of amnesia." now, louisa, what is hong kong? is it part of china? >> yes, it is part of china. and it was a british colony, but in 1997, it was returned to chinese rule under this arrangement that was called one country, two systems. and now we're seeing a very big strain in that arrangement. >> stephen: when democratly comes to another country, like to bomb into them. but what do you think is going to happen here? what do you think is going to happen? do you think the chinese are going to roll the tanks in on the hong kong-geans? >> at this point it's really difficult to say. we're seeing very mixed messages. the riot police were withdrawn, but there was an editorial in the "people's daily" today, which is the party mouthpiece, which says if people do not withdraw from the streets, it said the assemblies were were illegal and if people did not withdraw the consequences would be unimaginable. >> stephen: perhaps they will do to the protesters what th