Hong Kong protests signal alarm special freedoms fading

Hong Kong protests signal alarm special freedoms fading

June 25, 2019 16:30 pm

HONG KONG, June 25: China promised that for 50 years after Britain gave up control of its last colony in 1997, this shimmering financial enclave would get to keep freedoms absent in the communist-ruled mainland that many here don’t want to live without.

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