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Hong Kong Isn’t Burning, but Its People Are on Fire

STRIKE!

Protests have spread and intensified. Beijing may think they will die down without effect. Beijing could be wrong.

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HONG KONG—Things are ugly here.

After a million-strong rally on Sunday, a series of strikes and an anti-government protest kicked off in Hong Kong.

People in the city are outraged by a bill backed by Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam that, if passed as law, would provide cover for politically...

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