Workers sweep up litter left behind on the Harcourt Road flyover in Admiralty on June 13, a day after anti-extradition bill protests took place outside the Legislative Council. Photo: Winson Wong

Brian YS Wong

A New Year’s resolution for Hong Kong’s protesters, police and government: account for the collateral damage of your actions

The heavy cost paid by street cleaners, the homeless and workers in small businesses must not be ignored or forgotten

Both the protesters, who target Hong Kong’s prosperity, and the government, which is playing a waiting game, should realise their strategies hit the most vulnerable the hardest

Brian YS Wong

Published: 2:00pm, 1 Jan, 2020

Updated: 5:38pm, 1 Jan, 2020

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Workers sweep up litter left behind on the Harcourt Road flyover in Admiralty on June 13, a day after anti-extradition bill protests took place outside the Legislative Council. Photo: Winson Wong

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Brian Wong is a DPhil in Politics candidate at Balliol College, Oxford, a Rhodes Scholar (Hong Kong 2020), and the founding editor-in-chief of the Oxford Political Review.

A New Year’s resolution for Hong Kong’s protesters, police and government: account for the collateral damage of your actions

The heavy cost paid by street cleaners, the homeless and workers in small businesses must not be ignored or forgotten Both the protesters, who target Hong Kong’s prosperity, and the government, which is playing a waiting game, should realise their strategies hit the most vulnerable the hardest

The heavy cost paid by street cleaners, the homeless and workers in small businesses must not be ignored or forgotten

Both the protesters, who target Hong Kong’s prosperity, and the government, which is playing a waiting game, should realise their strategies hit the most vulnerable the hardest