How fears of ‘mainlandization’ fuel Hong Kong’s mass protests
How fears of ‘mainlandization’ fuel Hong Kong’s mass protests
- July 3, 2019
- Social sciences grad students Nathan Kar Ming Chan, Lev Nachman, and Chit Wai John Mok explain in The Washington Post, July 3, 2019
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Nathan Kar Ming Chan and Lev Nachman, Ph.D. candidates in the political science department
at the University of California, Irvine, and Chit Wai John Mok, a Ph.D. student in
sociology at the University of California, Irvine write: “ Hong Kongers seem to have
reinvigorated their tradition of protest, which had diminished since the 2014 Umbrella
Movement. But why are so many Hong Kongers engaging in mass demonstrations against
their government? … fears of mainlandization.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/03/how-fears-mainlandization-fuel-hong-kongs-mass-protests/?utm_term=.342b464e1c3b.
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