https://www.scmp.com/rss/502464/feed Gunter Schubert is chair of Greater China Studies and director of the European Research Centre on Contemporary Taiwan at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com It has been more than four months since Hong Kong plunged into its current wave of violent protests against Chinese rule. It started with large-scale demonstrations against proposed amendments to an extradition bill sought by the government, which then snowballed into an all-encompassing struggle for the protection of human rights and democracy in Hong Kong, as embodied by the Basic Law in the eyes of most Hong Kong citizens. Meanwhile, the hard core of the protest movement pursues a strategy of... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3032941/hong-kongs-protesters-will-find-violent-action-achieve-abstract?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3032941/hong-kongs-protesters-will-find-violent-action-achieve-abstract?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Oct 2019 01:00:14 +0000