Hong Kong’s democracy protests pose little threat to China
As Hong Kong's biggest protests in a generation raged around her, one 23-year-old Chinese student cut a calm but lonely figure.
Hong Kong students had poured out of her university to chant and sing for democracy on the streets but Ding Hui [not her real name], a graduate student from the Chinese mainland, decided to keep going to her classes.
"You cannot ignore the protests," she said. "There are always people at the subway station handing out fliers urging us to take part.
"But I personally do not think it is necessary to protest on the street. Mainlanders understand this better than Hong Kongers.… Seguir leyendo »