![]() It also symbolically took on a global superpower, with actions that reverberated around the globe. This leaderless group of mostly students and millennials succeeded in having the extradition bill overturned. One finishes the book with an appreciation of the magnitude of what was achieved by the protestors. He writes with journalistic prowess of what he witnessed among protestors and police, the tension mounting in each chapter. ![]() Dapiran goes right to the frontline to capture the unrest that plagued Hong Kong in 2019. It became ‘a battle for Hong Kong’s very soul’, writes Australian author and lawyer Antony Dapiran in his book City on Fire. ![]() ![]() This was summer in Hong Kong, a city dominated by increasingly violent upheaval with the world watching on.īy October, the protests had stopped being about just defeating a bill and had morphed into a movement decrying China’s rising authoritarianism. August saw sit-ins at Hong Kong’s International Airport, and by October clashes between police and protestors were characterised by violence and chaos – tear gas, rubber bullets, arrests, and prosecutions, the norm. By June 2019, millions of Hong Kong’s residents had taken to the streets. ![]() According to the bill’s many detractors, this was but the latest example of the erosion of Hong Kong’s freedoms. It began with a request to overturn a controversial bill that would have allowed people to be extradited to mainland China. ![]()
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