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Hong Kong and China
A city apart
A huge protest in Hong Kong challenges new leaders in the city, as well as those preparing to take power in Beijing
Jul 7th 2012 | BEIJING AND HONG KONG |From the print edition
CHINA'S president, Hu Jintao, is a rare visitor to Hong Kong, and for all the pomp and ceremony surrounding his latest trip there on July 1st, he is doubtless relieved that he is not expected to return before he leaves office in a few months' time. Tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of people took to the streets in Hong Kong's, and China's, biggest protest in years. They vented grievances not only against Hong Kong's new leadership, which Mr Hu had just sworn in, but also against Beijing's. Mr Hu's essors will find Hong Kong's disgruntled public an increasing challenge to munist Party's troubled politics.
Colonial-era social freedoms still apply in Hong Kong, and pro-democracy groups in the territory have staged protests on July 1st ever since the first anniversary of the reversion to Chinese sovereignty 15 years ago. This year's demonstration was not as large as the one in 2003 that shocked the authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing and led to the eventual resignation of the former colony's chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa. But it was bigger than any since Mr Tung stepped down in 2005, with estimates of the turnout ranging from the official 63,000 to the demonstrators' 400,000. It was particularly potent because it coincided with Mr Hu's visit and the swearing in on July 1st of
Hong Kong's new chief executive, Leung Chun-ying. No leader has taken up his post in the territory amid such a display of discontent.
Hong Kong officials were at pains to prevent Mr Hu from encountering any disaffected citizens, plaints range from Hong Kong's growing wealth gap to the mistreatment of dissidents in mainland China to allegations about Mr Leung's integrity. Security officials briefly detained a reporter who tried to shout a question at Mr Hu about the crushing of th