Sitting in any gwailo bar in HK you will find that the same holds for the majority of HK expats.
Since the handover broadly speaking you have mainly (in no particular order) teachers, engineers, geologists, pilots and financial services.
There is a game which needs to be played, and lets face it in a lot of workplaces (the aircraft is no different) resentment simmers below the surface.
Ok picture the scenario:
You work for a UK company.
You company has a policy of recruiting Chinese nationals into the top positions, and makes a token effort at training locals to do those jobs, albeit at lower terms and conditions.
They are flown in on over twice your salary, and paid your salary again in housing allowances.
The live in enclaves in the most desirable parts of town.
They don't speak any english.
They continually take the **** out of British culture.
Their kids are sent back to China at the companys cost to be privately educated.
(and on and on)
How would you treat your privileged co-workers?
Particularly if they were continually posturing for more pay and better conditions.
Most of us here came for the money, and the opportunities that money affords.
CX is a stable airline, its come through the last 2 crises fighting, and has the backing of the deep pockets of the Swire empire.
You could brand be as selfish, but I'm not the type of person who will adopt the flock mentality and jeopardise my continued wellbeing for grieveances that the union (I'm not a member of any union) tell me I have.
I think that there are some among us who need to step back from the steaming rhetoric and have a long hard think about where this thing is going, and the motives of those perpetuating the "action".