The rags-to-riches entrepreneur and the student leader have gone on to become pivotal figures in the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement
into Hong Kong as a child and worked his way to the top of the city’s clothing industry as the founder of the retailer Giordano.“I was Chinese but could never relate to China,” Lai said in an later that year. “I lived with that typical contradiction of overseas Chinese. But the students in Tiananmen changed all that.”
Under the “One country, two systems” model after handover, Hong Kong was supposed to retain a degree of autonomy until 2047. Lai has remained stridently critical of Beijing, and drew ire from many Chinese outlets that accused him of treason.
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