Hong Kong Protests

What You Need to Know About the Hong Kong Protests

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In the last few months, Hong Kong has been protesting against mainland China because China has been impeding on them and violating their rights as citizens. Hong Kong is special because they were once ruled by the United Kingdom. When the UK gave them to China, they agreed they would be "One country, Two systems." 

This policy was supposed to last for 50 years, but China has been starting to control them. The protestors started off calm, but it soon escalated to violent riots. There are five main demands that the protestors are protesting for and that is: withdraw the bill (extradition bill), leader Carrie Lam should step down, inquiry into police brutality due to a woman getting hurt in the eye, if people have been arrested they should be released and finally and most importantly, greater democratic freedoms.

These protests are going to continue until Hong Kong's government puts their foot down and demands China to step back. They are not part of China as of right now and they have more democratic freedoms. There has been a viral photo traveling around the internet and it is the American flag being held in front of the protestors.

The United States is the poster child for freedom of speech and a democratic country. Hong Kong aspires to have a system like ours and therefore our flag is being flown to resemble freedom.