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The Downfall of Democracy in Hong Kong By Sarah Miller
China is known today as an authoritarian-style communist government where Western democratic rights and freedoms are often suppressed. China does its best to enforce its own values on its people, although one place where this narrative has faltered is Hong Kong, an island off China’s southeastern coast. Hong Kong currently enjoys democratic rights and freedoms, as well as a capitalist economy, although recent actions by China have led to growing uncertainty over the
future of the island. Hong Kong’s century-old democracy is now in danger due to increased infringement on its democratic process and citizens’ rights by Beijing. Hong Kong spent 99 years under British rule, as it was leased to Great Britain as the price of defeat after the Opium Wars in 1898.1 As a result, Hong Kong thrived under a capitalist nation and developed its culture and economy separately from the rest of mainland China. Hong Kong became a hub of capitalist
