Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement returned to the streets in protest Monday in the wake of its landslide election victory. Melissa Duggan on the fresh demands from demonstrators. | CityNews Toronto

Behind the Molotovs and protest art, the Hong Kong demonstrations weren’t fighting colonialism, they were protecting it. Framed in the West as a struggle for democracy, the protests in fact advanced a deeply right-wing agenda: preserving Hong Kong’s British-imposed legal system, aligning with U.S. empire, and serving as a strategic tool to undermine China from within. This explainer strips away the liberal romanticism and Western left confusion revealing a protest movement that openly collaborat

Hong Kong's protesters have been immortalised as miniature figurines and in other creative pieces of art. Read the latest protest-related news: http://sc.mp/hkprotests | South China Morning Post