Hong Kong independence movement
Independence movement in China
Hong Kong independence movement
The Hong Kong independence movement is a political movement advocating the independence of Hong Kong as a sovereign state separate from China. Hong Kong is a special administrative region (SAR) of China and is thus granted a high degree of de jure autonomy, as stipulated by Article 2 of the Hong Kong Basic Law ratified under the Sino-British Joint Declaration. Since the handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China in 1997, a growing number of Hongkongers have become concerned about what they see as Beijing's encroachment on the territory's freedoms and the failure of the Hong Kong government to deliver "genuine democracy". Since the early 2010s there has been a major rise of awareness in Hongkonger self-identity, which was largely seen as a reaction to the gradual encroachment of the One country, two systems status-quo by the Chinese Communist Party especially after Xi Jinping's accession to General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, the top position in November 2012, marked...
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