The World Is Burning, and It Will Not Stop Any Time Soon

First two thousand 19 now, the spark that started s protests was a proposed new bill which would have allowed individuals to be extradited. Since great britain gave the island back to china in 19 97, hong kong has been governed by an agreement generally summarized as one country, two systems. The people did not want their friends and relatives sent off to mainland china to be beaten and tortured for their political beliefs so they took to the streets. They place traffic cones over tier gas grenades and pour in water to disarm them; deploy phalanxes of protesters armed with umbrellas to counter police projectiles. And against all odds, these tactics have worked.