Violent clashes in Hong Kong mar Chinese Communist Party 70th anniversary celebrations
to include calls for greater democratic freedoms amid fears that rights are being eroded by Beijing's growing control.
"The big message is that it's the Communist Party that saved China, the Communist Party that holds China together and that's why have the monopoly on power," Hughes told NBC News."That has painted them into a corner now that things have gone badly." A protester wearing a scary clown mask poses during a rally in Tsuen Wan district in Hong Kong on Tuesday.But not all experts say the civil unrest is a sign of the system failing. Steve Tsang, director of the China Institute at the SOAS University in London, said the fact that protests are even allowed to occur is an example of how Hong Kong operates differently from other Chinese cities.
A political solution involving consultation and negotiation is the best way to resolve the situation, experts said, but Tsang doesn't think it's likely.
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