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Jan 18, 2019
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On Nov. 17, 2015, as China’s national football team faced Hong Kong in a World Cup playoff match in Hong Kong’s Mongkok Stadium, a relatively large minority of the crowd broke out in booing during the playing of the Chinese National Anthem. Some waved slogans saying “Hong Kong is not China” while others shouted: “We are Hong Kong.”

Since then, regularly …

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