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“Over the past nearly two months, hundreds of thousands of people have braved Hong Kong’s sweltering summer heat in a series of mass rallies against an unpopular bill that has come to symbolize concerns about the encroachment of the mainland Chinese government on their semiautonomous territory.
The city’s beleaguered leader, Carrie Lam, has already
suspended the bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China and declared it “dead.” But she has refused to formally withdraw it or to meet the protesters’ other demands, which include the establish- ment of an independent commission to investigate police conduct and the right to directly elect the territory’s leader.
Mrs. Lam’s unwavering stance has helped fuel protests that now occur regularly, some of them escalating dramatically.”
Tiffany May, Lam Yik Fei, & Ezra Cheung / The New York Times