A GENERATION ROARS
Carrie Lam’s proposal to allow extraditions from Hong
Kong to mainland China had barely been announcedbefore the territory’s leader felt the heat of a frustrated
generation. Hundreds of thousands of protesters filled
the streets—like these on June 10—then did it the next
week, and then the next. At one point they numbered
2 million. The extradition bill did die, but it was too
late to stop what it had started: Hong Kong had been
transformed, and a new normal had arrived.