Hong Kong protests

Cross over the bridge near the Admiralty station in Hong Kong and growing division in the city is obvious. One on side: the normal bustling city. On the other side: a massive tent city with hundreds of multi-colored tents stretching across the eight-lane highway.

This was day 55 of protesting. The protests, which started in late September, followed an announcement from China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress that proposed an electoral reform that would limit free and fair elections in Hong Kong. Under the agreement made between China and Britain when the latter returned the colony to the former, the island would be “one country, two systems,” meaning Hong Kong would be able to keep many of its freedoms. The reform goes against that.