Unlikely leader: Student leader Joshua Wong, 17, has been described by the BBC as "an unlikely looking revolution leader", but he has nevertheless sparked a student-driven pro-democracy movement that is sweeping Hong Kong.
Joshua Wong is the 17-year-old student leader driving Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement.
Not a lot of scrawny 17-year-old boys get featured in the New York Times. But Joshua Wong didn’t just get featured – his bowl cut hairstyle even got a mention in the article’s first paragraph, published on NYT’s Oct 1 front page.
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