SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: Hong Kong’s political crisis shifted from its city streets to an austere university lecture theatre as student protest leaders faced off with government officials in a much-anticipated televised debate after more than three weeks of an unprecedented civil disobedience campaign…
Ostensibly designed to help break the ice over the political deadlock, protest organisers were pessimistic before the debate about the prospects of a breakthrough for their demands of unencumbered democratic elections being reached.
Instead, they saw it as a platform for Hong Kong’s seven million residents to see a debate unadulterated by what has often been highly-polarising media coverage within the city, or as 18-year-old protest leader Joshua Wong put it, “for the general public to tell the difference between right and wrong, to know whether it is the government or the students who reasons things out”… (more)
