Rather than demobilizing Hong Kong's angry youth by responding to some of their demands, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, who instigated the ongoing massive protests in the first place, has so far refused
If you view political engagement as following a continuum—running from total passivity, to peaceful protest, to civil disobedience, to violent protest and ending in widespread social unrest —then young people in Hong Kong first moved from peaceful marches to civil disobedience in September 2014. A sit-in, known as Occupy Central, by tens of thousands of young people held downtown Hong Kong captive for 79 days.
These and other actions undermined many political freedoms guaranteed under Hong Kong's constitution and fanned the flames of unrest. One million people, in a city of 7 million inhabitants, marched on June 9 to protest Lam's decision. Legal associations, foreign chambers of commerce and local business groups also spoke out against the bill. But Lam refused to budge.
Even after 2 million people took to the streets on June 16—more than 25 percent of the city's entire population—Lam rejected further concessions.On July 1, the 22nd anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to China, two protests formed—500,000 people held a peaceful march and, a quarter-mile away, about a thousand yellow-helmeted confrontationists broke into the Legislative Council building, as if that might ensure the bill's death.
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