Hong Kong’s summer of discontent

 OCCASIONALLY, THE officers manage to stop someone like Cheung Yu-chong, 59, a member of the Falun Gong spiritual movement who was caught carrying anti-government videos onto the mainland last year. Cheung was sentenced to three years in prison, according to the group, which is banned everywhere in China but Hong Kong.
       But for every Hong Kong resident like Cheung who is detained, many others involved in activities the Chinese government finds troubling — labor organizers, Catholic priests, AIDS activists, journalists — make it across the border without a hitch. If anything, human rights groups here say, Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule has made it easier for its residents to influence people and events on the mainland.
       For China’s ruling Communist Party, that is a big problem. The recent mass street demonstrations here demanding democratic elections and the withdrawal of a stringent internal security bill have put China’s leaders on the defensive, forcing a retreat in their efforts to reshape this former British colony and encouraging those who hope Hong Kong’s liberal traditions might instead reshape China.

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