Every month brings a new crop of interesting international headlines (and some of them occasionally have nothing to do with the Trump administration). June was no exception.
For starters, two million people hit the streets in Hong Kong to protest a newly proposed law that would allow mainland China to extradite fugitives from Hong Kong to be prosecuted in China. For context, the population of Hong Kong is 7.4 million. Hong Kong, which was a British colony for over a century and a half, was “handed over” to the Chinese government in 1997, with the agreement that China would allow Hong Kong to maintain its political and economic systems (“One country, two systems”) for fifty years, that is, until 2047.
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