Maybe China learned from Tiananmen Square?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/17/hong-kong-protests-2014_n_6175464.html

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HONG KONG (AP) — Workers in Hong Kong on Tuesday started clearing away barricades at one site of the student protest that has rocked the city for the last two months.
The removal comes after a Hong Kong court granted a restraining order against the protesters last week requiring them to clear the area in front of a tower in the central part of Hong Kong as well a separate order against a second protest site Mong Kok brought by taxi and minibus operators.
The workers could be seen cutting plastic ties holding the barricades together. Students, who have been protesting for greater democracy in the former British colony, did not resist. Some protesters had already moved their tents to other parts of the protest zone ahead of the clearance operation."

Students are being peaceful. The government is being peaceful, after first attacking the protesters.  It looks like people are learning how best to do this.