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Hong Kong Youth Learn Peaceful Protest Fails

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Jul 04, 2019
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The militant youth who trashed Hong Kong’s Legislative Council building on the 22nd anniversary of the July 1st, 1997 handover, had earlier draped an external pillar with a large-character poster for Chief Executive Carrie Lam: “It is you who taught me that peaceful protests are useless.”

In Lam’s dismissive arrogance, she declared it did not matter how …

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