Hong Kong tries talking, not gassing

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http://atimes.com/atimes/China/CHIN-01-071014.html



Hong Kong tries talking, not gassing
By Peter Lee
Oct 7, '14

The student curtain-raiser in Hong Kong appears to be over for now. A few hundred diehard students remain on post at the three main demonstration sites. In some places there are more journos than demonstrators.

But don't get the impression the movement has petered out. The grown-ups have appeared to take this political exercise to the next level.

Alan Leong, no student, 56 years old, democracy activist, long time pol, one time candidate to be the city's chief executive, gave an interview to Malcolm Moore of the Daily Telegraph:

"Almost 95 per cent of the crowd that has gathered every night for seven nights is between 15 to 25 years old," said Alan Leong, 56, the leader of the pro-democratic Civic party.