Hong Kong Leader’s Retreat Over Bill Fails to Satisfy Protesters
- City’s leader formally withdraws bill that sparked unrest
- China has ruled out demand for greater democracy in Hong Kong
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Carrie Lam’s move to formally withdraw a bill allowing extraditions to China may well have ended the Hong Kong unrest in June. But now protesters want a lot more, and they’re ready and willing to fight.
After three months of at-times violent demonstrations, Hong Kong’s leader made her most significant concession yet on Wednesday evening. In a somber televised address, she told an anxious city that she was meeting a demand from protesters to officially scrap a proposal that ended up sparking the worst unrest since the former colony’s return to Chinese rule in 1997.