How Might Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Protests End?

No one is sure of the end game for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters, who have taken over key streets here—but promises by the government, or extraordinary intervention by the Xi Jinping regime, might do it.
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How Might Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Protests End?
A protester wearing protective gear, is standing on the front lines of a face off between protesters and police in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, on Nov. 5, 2014. Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times
Matthew Robertson
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Thousands of people hold umbrellas as they wave their cell phones in Admiralty, Hong Kong, on Oct. 28, 2014, calling for greater democracy. There is no clear end in sight for the protests that have stretched on for more than a month. (Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times)
Thousands of people hold umbrellas as they wave their cell phones in Admiralty, Hong Kong, on Oct. 28, 2014, calling for greater democracy. There is no clear end in sight for the protests that have stretched on for more than a month. Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times
Matthew Robertson
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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