What are the Hong Kong protests about?

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Mass protests against changes to extradition law have shaken the city. We look at why

Hong Kong has been rocked by protests as hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated at the weekend against legal changes that would make it easier to extradite people to China from the semi-autonomous city. This is what the amended extradition law would do, and why it is so controversial.

 

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It's about fascists being fascists. China is a reprehensible, oppressive, and unbearable 1984-style police state. We'd all do better by shaming them into a more ethical existence. That means not buying all their shit until they make some serious reforms.

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