The 360 | Can Hong Kong protests end peacefully?
Protesters in Hong Kong have been clashing with police for several months, but a violent series of events in recent days has brought one of the world’s most important financial centers to the “brink of total collapse," police said.
At the core of the conflict is how much control the Chinese government can impose upon residents of Hong Kong. The small territory, home to more than 7 million people, was transferred from British to Chinese control in 1997. As part of the handover, Beijing agreed to allow Hong Kong a certain level of independence for 50 years as part of an arrangement called “one country, two systems."
The prolonged friction and increasingly violent clashes have raised fears that Beijing might send mainland troops into Hong Kong in a deadly crackdown reminiscent of the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square, when the military killed hundreds — or possibly thousands — of student protesters.
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