Hong Kong university leaders urged to stand up for protesters

“The principles the demonstrators are defending – democracy, liberty, social justice, freedom of thought and expression"?? Their cluelessness is far more apparent than their 'principles.' Hong Kong has British democracy, a British leader (she and her entire family hold British citizenship), British judges, British police officers, its official language is British and its economic outcomes are British: a stagnant economy, 23% child poverty, unaffordable housing, and the highest inequality on earth. Hong Kong has rejected repeated offers of help from the mainland which, in addition to the most trusted legal system on earth, enjoys 90% home ownership, 0.7% child poverty* and a GINI coefficient half of Hong Kong's. *Thousands of homeless British children are living in makeshift accommodation, including shipping containers and cramped former office blocks, putting their health at serious risk, according to a new report. Research published on Wednesday by Anne Longfield, the children’s commissioner for England, reveals that 210,000 young people in homeless families are having to live in temporary housing.

I understand that Tao Zhang of Nottingham Trent University uses the pronouns she/her.