HONG KONG ¨C On a recent Sunday night in the working-class Hong Kong district of Mong Kok, a group of radical young activists swore through loudspeakers and gestured rudely as they denounced mainland Chinese as ¡°prostitutes¡± and ¡°barbarians.¡±
The youngsters are members of a new front that is using increasingly aggressive tactics to demand an independent Hong Kong free from mainland China¡¯s grip.
Their separatist yearnings have alarmed Beijing and the pro-Beijing Hong Kong government which are fighting back to win hearts and minds and forge a spirit of ¡°love China, love Hong Kong¡± with multimillion-dollar information drives and exchanges.
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