1st July Hong Kong Protest

[Jae]

1st July marks the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China. Celebration set aside. This is the most apparent form of hypocrisy at national scale. Smiles on citizen’s face are just masking what lies beneath, the unspoken truth. Majority of Hong Kongers are not happy that the British left, a jolt of revolt was felt when Beijing declared it can revoke the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ policy that protects Hong Kong’s economy and people’s lifestyle. 68,000 Hong Kongers came out to the street to march for their freedom, a march for democracy and the march to request the right to vote for every single citizen.
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