Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink, by Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho offers a local’s view of a well-contextualised look at the territory’s once-unthinkable pro-democracy demonstrations

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June 1, 2020

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People hold candles in front of a backdrop showing Beijing's Tiananmen Square during a vigil in Hong Kong on June 4, 2018

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