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Thugs for Hire: The Relationship Between Beijing and the Hong Kong Triads

On the evening of July 21, 2019, dozens of masked men in white T-shirts stormed the Yuen Long train station and assaulted people returning home after a pro-democracy protest, as well as passers-by, with wooden sticks and metal rods. There has been widespread speculation that the attackers belonged to the Hong Kong triads — the ...

David Clapp

Suspected triad members attack pro-democracy protesters in North Point, Hong Kong on August 5, 2019.

Hong Kong Protester Numbers in Support of the Jailed Students Reaches Peak

Three prominent young leaders of Hong Kong’s democracy movement were sentenced on August 17 to 6-8 months in prison. This comes as a major setback for the semi-autonomous Chinese city, which is struggling for greater political freedom under China’s Communist Party rule. In spite of this, support for the jailed students keeps increasing. Joshua Wong, ...

Hermann Rohr

Joshua Wong and a fellow protester.