HONG KONG - People Power, the Umbrella Revolution

"What Hong Kong’s backpedal on China extradition law means for Beijing" PBS NewsHour 6/17/2019

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SUMMARY:  Huge demonstrations in Hong Kong protesting a proposed Chinese extradition law seem to have paid off, as the city’s chief executive has indefinitely suspended the controversial legislation.  What does the backtracking mean for Hong Kong and Beijing?  Nick Schifrin talks to Lee Cheuk Yan, a co-founder of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, and Doug Paal of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

HONG KONG - The Protests

aka 'Tails of a Puppet Government'

"Mass protests over Hong Kong extradition law turn violent" PBS NewsHour 6/12/2019

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SUMMARY:  Protesters in Hong Kong are promising more mass demonstrations after some erupted into violence.  Police battled crowds in a growing crisis over Hong Kong officials’ granting mainland China greater control over the city -- including the power to extradite people from Hong Kong for trial in China.  Debi Edward of Independent Television News reports on the “dogged determination” of the law’s critics.