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As midnight struck on June 30, 1997, and Hong Kong transitioned from British to Chinese rule, pro-democracy then-Hong Kong lawmaker Lee Wing-tat (李永達) stood with colleagues on the balcony of the territory’s Legislative Council, holding a defiant protest. Hong Kong is to mark the 25th anniversary of the handover tomorrow, and the halfway point of “one country, two systems” the governance model agreed by the UK and China under which the territory would keep some autonomy and freedoms. That model was set to last 50 years, but even in its first hours, battle lines that would define Hong Kong’s politics for

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