HONG KONG — You would think that Albert Ho Chun-yan had seen it all before. The hard-won, inch-by-inch opening of democratic space is rapidly closing in on Hong Kong’s 7.3 million people. “What we are seeing now is new,” said Ho, the former leader of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party and current chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China. “We still have limited democracy in Hong Kong and an open society, relatively speaking. “The more interference the Chinese government imposes on Hong Kong, it drives more young people to regard themselves as Hong Kongers rather than Chinese.

Source: National Post October 19, 2016 18:00 UTC