Insight - Hong Kong 'radicals' up ante in democracy push against China


  • World
  • Monday, 23 Feb 2015

Students study in front of a protest banner inside the campus of the University of Hong Kong February 17, 2015. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Nearly three months after police cleared away the last of Hong Kong's pro-democracy street protests, lingering anger is stoking a new front of radical activism that has turned shopping malls and university campuses into a fresh battleground.

While still relatively few in number, a cluster of outspoken groups have staged small but disruptive protests in recent weeks targeting mainland Chinese visitors - tapping a seam of grassroots resentment to call for greater Hong Kong nationalism and even independence from China.

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