"Only when these two aspects work in conjunction with each other can our movement achieve its aims."Įdmund Cheng, a political scientist at Hong Kong Baptist University, has surveyed protesters and says the majority are moderate. "Sometimes Hong Kong people are courageous, sometimes they're more rational," he says. He says Hong Kong's moderate and extreme factions are an indispensable and integral part of a unified movement that shares the same goals. "If either one gets hurt, we feel the other's pain." "Our relationship is like hands and feet," he tells NPR at his Legislative Council office. But he says protesters are his friends, whether they are peaceful or not.
Kwong has negotiated between protesters and police at the front lines, and protected injured demonstrators. Protesters like Chan are allied with moderate pro-democracy politicians like 36-year-old Ray Kwong, a Democratic Party lawmaker. This time, moderates and radicals have agreed to cooperate, collaborate and tolerate each other's methods. " If either one gets hurt, we feel the other's pain"ĭuring Hong Kong's 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, the government adopted a strategy of attrition and let competing camps within the protest movement undermine each other.
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