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A pro-democracy activist takes part in protests in Hong Kong, November 2014 Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Images In the new Hollywood blockbuster Godzilla vs Kong, Hong Kong becomes the scene of an epic final battle against a monster that threatens to destroy the world. The skyscrapers of the city are reduced to rubble as King Kong slugs it out with the awoken colossus. Though the film wasn’t made by Hong Kong film-makers, it feels symbolic. In the week of its release, a sense of dread increased among the 7.5 million citizens of the territory, as they learned that the legal and governmental independence promised to them for 50 years after the handover of the prosperous British colony to China in 1997 was being dismantled ever more quickly. ....