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48 Hours in Hong Kong

By EyeEm Team - 2 min read

Images from the Umbrella Revolution

“The city’s streets were calm early on Thursday while police largely kept their distance from the tens of thousands of mostly young people keeping up protests in the heart of the Asian financial hub that are now nearly a week old.

The protesters demand that Beijing-backed Leung Chun-ying steps down by the end of Thursday, which he refuses, leaving the two sides poles apart in a dispute over how much political control China should have over the former British colony.”

Excerpt from Reuters, “Special Report: In ‘Umbrella Revolution,’ China confronts limits of its power”