{"id":42794,"date":"2014-10-10T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=42794 "},"modified":"2014-10-10T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T14:10:00","slug":"42794-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=42794","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protest: Thousands on streets for fresh rally"},"content":{"rendered":"
10 October 2014 Last updated at 13:44 ET<\/div>
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The BBC’s Juliana Liu: Activists hope new show of strength will… sustain the movement<\/div>
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Thousands of people are demonstrating in Hong Kong’s financial district after protest leaders called for a show of strength.<\/div>
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It comes after the territory’s deputy leader called off talks with student leaders scheduled for Friday.<\/div>
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Carrie Lam said the students’ refusal to end their protest had made “constructive dialogue” impossible.<\/div>
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The protesters, demanding full democratic elections in 2017, paralysed parts of Hong Kong in recent weeks.<\/div>
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Throughout the week only a few hundred protesters, mostly students, remained on the streets around the financial and government district of Admiralty and in Mong Kok north of the harbour.<\/div>
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But after the talks were cancelled, leaders of the student movement called on supporters to return to the streets.<\/div>
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“Come to occupy the road outside the public headquarters, come bring your tents to show our persistence on long term occupy action,” said Joshua Wong, the 17-year-old founder of the Scholarism movement.<\/div>
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Hong Kong Chief Secretary Carrie Lam said that the basis for constructive dialogue had been “undermined”<\/div>
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The BBC’s Juliana Liu in Hong Kong says the activists are hoping a new show of strength will be enough to sustain the movement.<\/div>
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“We are now planning on further action for escalating [the campaign] if the government keeps denying the meeting,” said Alex Chow, secretary general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS).<\/div>
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Analysis: John Sudworth, BBC Shanghai Correspondent<\/div>
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Once again the protest was entirely peaceful and good-natured, with speeches, applause and a bit of singing. But this was a rally on a Friday night in response to a call for a show of strength – oughtn’t it to be ginormous, rather than just big?<\/div>
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Some estimates put the number at 10,000 or more but that’s still a long way short of the scale of the protests at their peak. Hardly resounding proof of city-wide support for the pro-democracy fight and disruption it’s causing.<\/div>
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But, if nothing else, neither is it small enough in scale to give the Hong Kong government what it so badly wants. This is not yet a movement that has run out of steam. The stalemate continues.<\/div>
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