Stephen Vines, "Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship" (Hurst, 2021)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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'I Don't Care if a Million People Have Come Out on the Streets'
i was covering the protests at the early stages, and i thought what would happen would be that some sort of funny little compromise would be made. What i didn't think was possible was the sheer, staggering level of incompetence of the people running the honkon government under carry lamb. She managed to provoke,. almost single handedly, people who were initially annoyed, but not outraged by what was going on, into a state of fury. In their unprecedented numbers, they came out onto the streets. And as you indicated a few moments ago, a lot of those protests turned quite violent. But anyway, obviously, and this is not unique, tohon canits the more extreme elements of any
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