Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have entered their fourth day, and the situation is increasingly tense as demonstrators and global spectators expect a crackdown from authorities at some point. The student-led protests demand that Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying resign and that Beijing retract its decision to restrict the number of candidates in the the city’s 2017 chief executive poll to candidates approved by a pro-Beijing panel. “The people on the streets are here because we’ve made the decision ourselves and we will only leave when we have achieved something,” a 20-year-old student told the Associated Press. “We are …read more
Source: Business Insider
