After a month of mass protests on one side of Hong Kong, pro-democracy activists moved en masse Sunday to the other side of the city, Kowloon — where mainland Chinese tourists roam.
Beijing might have dreamed of a scene like this: a crowd of jubilant Hong Kong youths shouting the Chinese national anthem at the top of their lungs.
Organizers said 230,000 protesters joined in a march from the shopping hub of Tsim Sha Tsui, to West Kowloon railway station, the point where passengers on high-speed trains from China disembark. Police estimated that 56,000 participated. Organizers originally expected just a few thousand. After spending days on online forums discussing how best to reach out to mainlanders, the activists airdropped memes and fliers in simplified Chinese to strangers at the metro station. Some included QR codes formatted for WeChat and Alipay, ubiquitous apps used in mainland China for chatting and online payment. Once scanned, they opened to explanations of the anti-extradition bill movement.
“What happened in Wuhan?” said one tourist, a 27-year-old Wuhan native who stood outside a hotel with her aluminum suitcase, watching the march go by. She gave only her last name, Xu, for fear of repercussions back in China for speaking to foreign media. Xu, who said she was a professional athlete, said she didn’t think that China had a problem with freedom of speech, or that people critical of the government would automatically be arrested.
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