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I think the mobilization of the Hong Kong people through party politics is our only route to salvation, because politics is about power.
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The speaker sees party politics as the only way forward for Hong Kong’s people. In this view, organizing people through political parties is necessary because politics concerns who holds power. “Salvation” presents this path as essential, not merely useful, while the quote leaves the specific problem to be solved unstated.
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