Protests in Hong Kong are viewed as a call for democracy but Chris Fox, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Canada who lived in Beijing says the real issue is Hong Kong’s relationship with the People’s Republic. For watchers of democratic transitions the Hong Kong protests must be quite a thing. Students with little to gain materially and …

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Protests in Hong Kong can be linked to democracy or historic promise for reform, but Jake Elson, 20, a Correspondent from Banbury in Australia argues that creating a compromise between capitalism and communism is the real issue. By the time I write this, the Hong Kong protests have begun to dwindle in numbers. It’s characteristic of …

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