An estimated 1.7m people marched through Hong Kong on Sunday, even though the police refused to sanction the demonstration. The FT’s global China editor James Kynge says that the peaceful protest was an act of defiance against Beijing, which last week called protesters terrorists and shared videos of paramilitary police near the Hong Kong-China border
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