WATCH: Boosted by a week that saw sweeping gains for pro-democracy candidates in local elections and President Trump signing legislation backing their cause, thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Hong Kong Sunday.
— since shelved — which became a lightning rod for concerns of Beijing's creeping influence over the former British colony, returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
“The government only responds to one of our demands," said Steven Lee, a 25-year-old engineer who was out on the streets Sunday."We urge them to answer to our other demands. They just simply insisted that they did nothing wrong,” Beijing has steered clear of interfering directly, saying that it trusts Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam to handle the situation. However, the protests have presented Chinese leader Xi Jinping with one of the biggest popular challenges since he came to power in 2012.
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