DW Close Up July 13, 2024
Social media and are both surprising and creative artists are playing a major role. Tourism has plummeted and the economy is suffering huge losses. But during the work week most things take their usual capitalist course in this International Finance center. Hong kong streets tell a different story on sundays. Hundreds of thousands of hong kong citizens are turning out in mass displays of civil disobedience. At the beginning of this wave of protest in early june the masses were demanding the withdrawal of an extradition bill which would have allowed hong kong to deport criminal suspects to chin...