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Biggest Hong Kong Protest in Months Signals More Unrest in 2020
- First big rally to get approval since August draws huge crowd
- March started peacefully but tensions emerged later in day
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Hong Kong saw its biggest pro-democracy protest in months Sunday, signaling more unrest to come in 2020 as the movement that began in June to fight China’s increasing grip on the city shows its staying power.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flooded the city’s major downtown boulevards, many waving U.S. flags, singing protest anthem “Glory to Hong Kong” and chanting “Five demands, not one less.” The march drew a cross-section of Hong Kong society -- from parents with young kids to senior citizens -- and was largely peaceful throughout the afternoon, although tensions emerged between riot police and some radical demonstrators at night.