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China Ups the Pressure to Undermine Hong Kong

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Philip Bowring
Sep 23, 2015
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On the anniversary of the Occupy movement which paralyzed parts of Hong Kong for weeks last year, mainland officials have launched a barrage of comments designed to undermine the city’s sense of enjoying a separate system from that of the mainland, where all power emanates from the Communist Party.

Some statements have been so extreme that they have clea…

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