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The biggest difference between the current protest movement and the 2014 Umbrella Movement is the striking solidarity among the various groups of demonstrators. Everyone feels they are ‘in the same boat’ together, new research shows. Roman Pilipey/EPA

September 1, 2019

New research shows vast majority of Hong Kong protesters support more radical tactics

Samson Yuen, Lingnan University

A survey of 8,000 Hong Kong protesters shows that participants increasingly feel that radical protests are the most effective way to make the government heed public opinion.

Joshua Wong (left), Alex Chow (centre) and Nathan Law (right) speak to the press outside the Court of Final Appeal after the first hearing in their bid to appeal their jail sentences in Hong Kong on November 7, 2017. ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP

November 15, 2017

How Hong Kong Umbrella movement was crushed and pro‑democracy activists gradually silenced

Edmund W. Cheng, Hong Kong Baptist University and Samson Yuen, Lingnan University

In Hong Kong, challenges for the new generation of activists are not how to mobilise mass protests, but how to wrestle with the state’s innovative strategy to manage society.

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