Hong Kong vs China: Why Are These Protests In Hong Kong?
The last couple of weeks, protests in Hong Kong have been making all the headlines, but most of us are unaware of why exactly they are taking place. It's a massive issue, and the answer isn't quite as simple as you might imagine. The protest has been going for several months. This is not all happening in a vacuum. There are a lot of important reasons behind it which stretches back to several years. Let's start with a little bit of background check. Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region controlled by The People's Republic of China, and it enjoys limited autonomy as defined by the Basic Law. The concept of ''one country, two systems'' allow socialism and capitalism to coexist under ''one country'', which is mainland China. The deal was agreed back in 1984, and in 1997, Hong Kong officially came under the principle of ''one country, two systems''. Beijing basically leads the chain of com...