Hong Kong’s Shaky Democratic Future

<p id="story-continues-1" itemprop="articleBody" data-total-count="300" data-para-count="300" class="story-body-text story-content">For the nearly 17 years since Hong Kong’s handover from Britain to China in 1997, we Hong Kongers have been dreaming of the genuine democracy that was promised by Beijing. But today our autonomy and the rule of law it buttresses are under threat from the mainland central government.</p>
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