Your brain is binary, 0 or 1 only. It is mission impossible to describe a progressive improvement to your logic system. It is not hard, it is simply impossible.
To be a matured politic, one should not stick on what he wants the world to be, but the best he can improve. 64 students obviously knew nothing about compromise. Although they should have had a big achievement, they ended up archived nothing. Actually they've successfully pushed the China's democracy backward.