Two protests and false parallels
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January 14, 2021 01:30 IST
While democracy was under siege in the U.S. last week, autocracy was under siege in Hong Kong in 2019
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Former Democratic Party legislators Andrew Wan, left, Lam Cheuk-ting, second from left, and Helena Wong, right, attend a press conference after their released on bail in Hong Kong on January 8, 2021. | Photo Credit: AP
While democracy was under siege in the U.S. last week, autocracy was under siege in Hong Kong in 2019
As a pro-Trump mob swarmed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, the comparisons drawn to the storming of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council (LegCo) complex on July 1, 2019 were immediate. The two historic moments marked days when protest movements breached the hearts of their respective governments. But that is where the similarities ended. Beyond this superficial level, the differences between the two were numerous.