Thirty years on, it is Hong Kong that is fighting for democratic values — for its very political survival, actually — against another onslaught by the same Communist government in Beijing. — to arrest people in Hong Kong and send them to China to face trial. When the legislation passes — which now seems near certain, and imminent — it will spell the death of Hong Kong as the world has known it. In 2014, at age 21, I was one of the tens of thousands of protesters in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Umbrella Movement. One could say that after more than two months of sit-ins, the Umbrella Movement failed: None of our demands were met.

Source: New York Times June 04, 2019 05:00 UTC