Hong Kong’s Protests Are Just the Beginning

Many Hongkongers simply don’t identify as Chinese

Michele Koh Morollo
GEN
Published in
5 min readJun 20, 2019

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Photo: Anthony Kwan/Getty Images

HHundreds of thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets this month in what was purported to be the largest public protest ever held in Hong Kong’s history. Their goal: to compel the city’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam to abandon a proposed extradition law that would allow Hong Kong criminals to be tried in…

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