Future of Hong Kong: Inside Hong Kong's new Britain-based pro-democracy movement Since the introduction of Hong Kong's draconian national security law, the city-state's pro-democracy activists have taken the fight online 8 March 2021 • 5:00am This article is the third in our three-part series, The Future of Hong Kong, looking at how much has changed since the first protests against Beijing's extradition bill two years ago. At 10am every morning, Simon Cheng opens his laptop and gets to work keeping the alarming decline of liberties in Hong Kong in the spotlight. But rather than working with his fellow protesters in Hong Kong, he operates from a kitchen table in London, and his activism is fuelled by cups of Fortnum & Mason tea.