The Washington Post covering one of the central questions of the Hong Kong protests: why is Carrie Lam, the Theresa May-like amalgalm of obstinacy and incompetence who is in charge of Hong Kong, refusing to make any concessions to de-escalate the crisis?https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/with-hong-kong-in-turmoil-questions-grow-over-leaders-refusal-to-offer-concessions-to-protesters/2019/08/28/590bd3b8-c8b0-11e9-9615-8f1a32962e04_story.html …
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Looming over everything is the October 1 National Day celebration in China, which puts a deadline of sorts on the Hong Kong protests. The next great moments of tension in Hong Kong will be a (banned) mass protest on Saturday, and a general strike announced for September 2-3.
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