BEIJING: China’s president heaped praise on Hong Kong’s embattled leader Leung Chun-ying as they met in Beijing, commending him for maintaining “stability” in 2014, a year marked by massive pro-democracy protests.
Beijing refused to give concessions to demonstrators who held rallies in Hong Kong for more than two months demanding free leadership elections for the semi-autonomous city, and police cleared the last of their sprawling protest camps on Dec 15.
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