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Ten years after it returned to Chinese rule, Hong Kong is still grappling with issues of integration and identity
At the time, I was very afraid. People kept telling me that as soon as the People's Liberation Army entered the city, they would arrest the counter-revolutionaries. Someone said 3,000 arrests; someone else said 400; still someone else said 100 plus... I was thinking: even if only 20 or 30 people are arrested, I must be on that list."
As Apple Daily proprietor and democracy advocate Jimmy Lai goes on to say in an article published in May, 10 years after the return of Chinese sovereignty ...
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