Martin Jacques, author of the global best-seller "When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order", shared his views on the recent violence.

MARTIN JACQUES SCHOLAR AND RESEARCHER "The problem of Hong Kong from the outset is a difficult one. It's a piece of territory that was stolen by the British following the Opium War. Ever since the British held it, which was well over 150 years, it was brought up in a Western perspective, a Western way of thinking. Although about 96-97 percent of the Hong Kong population is Chinese, they don't really think like the Chinese on the mainland because they've been brought up to look westwards, not to look northwards. So by and large, the levels of ignorance in Hong Kong about China are really extraordinary high - 150 years is a long period. Many generations of people have been brought up with these kinds of norms and values. That is not going to change quickly. The process by which Hong Kong adapts to its relationship with the people on the Chinese mainland is bound to be, in my view, a slow process."