Video games offer cleaner victories than politics. But joshuawongcf doesn't accept defeat easily From 1843mag
h, shit.” Joshua Wong, Hong Kong’s best-known democracy campaigner, is reeling. Tossed into the amber sky, he spins uncontrollably before landing, arms splayed, in a downtown car park. Regathering his strength, he hurls hisFor the past ten years Wong has been confronting the Chinese Communist Party as it slowly tightens control over Hong Kong. Today he is locked in a different kind of struggle – a fight between the giant robots of “Gundam Versus”, a video game.
Wong is equally at home playing video games and discussing Hong Kong’s ongoing battles. He just can’t do both at the same time. “I need to...concentrate,” he pleads, as we riddle him with questions and the enemy robot blasts him with lasers. Our conversation makes way for the frenetic tapping of controls. Some combination of finger- and thumb-work allows his robot to throw a mace into his opponent’s midriff, then wrench it out again. “Yes!” he cries.
Wong mentions visiting several protesters on remand who attacked police and made petrol bombs. After taking a swing at an enemy robot, Wong pauses the on-screen carnage to discuss the off-screen violence. He himself would never resort to such lengths. “Of course, I can’t,” he says. But he won’t publicly denounce such acts either. “I understand the root cause,” he says. “It’s the desperation of the millennials who are even younger than me.
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