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WHAT FREEDOM IS WORTH

IN DECEMBER 2014, DURING THE final days of the Umbrella Movement, prominent signs proclaiming We’ll be back sprang up along Harcourt Road, one of the three major thruways occupied by peaceful prodemocracy protesters for nearly three months. The protest did not achieve its objective of genuine universal voting to elect our chief executive, but it awoke a generation of Hong Kongers to resist Beijing’s interference

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