Name: 香港で起きていること｜2019年8月20日 (What's Happening in Hong Kong | August 20, 2019)
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11 weeks of protest, hundreds of thousands of people, statements from both the local government and the mainland.

There are a lot of elements to what's going on right now in Hong Kong, and that's where we start today's edition of CNN 10.

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China because it was a British colony.

Before China took over in 1997 the communist nation promised that people in Hong Kong would continue to have many of the rights they had under British control, at least until 2047 when Hong Kong is formally joined with the rest of China.

But many people in the city feel that China is chipping away at their rights.

Earlier this year, a bill was proposed that would have allowed Hong Kong to extradite or hand over certain crime suspects to mainland China.

Critics said that bill could have been exploited to send Hong Kong residents to mainland China for political reasons.

China's government and Hong Kong's government have both said that wouldn't happen, and the bill has since been put on hold.

But it triggered the protests that have grown in size over the past 11 weekends, and they're taking a toll on both Hong Kong's international image and its economy.

There are other objections that people in Hong Kong have when it comes to China, and there are many in Hong Kong who support their local government and that of China.

The country says it has ultimate control over what happens in Hong Kong.

It's the disagreement over the level of that control that's fueling the unrest in the city.

On Sunday, the skies opened up over Hong Kong is a tropical downpour that did not stop this sea of humanity, a mass protest against the government's handling of the worst political crisis Hong Kong has seen in decades.

If the authorities were hoping that this protest movement would fizzle over time, they were terribly wrong.

Even pouring rain hasn't dampened the protesters Enthusiasm from Hong Kong's Victoria Park.

Hong Kong's been locked in a cycle of unrest for more than two months after two separate 1,000,000 man protest marches Last June, the city's appointed government suspended but refused to completely withdraw a proposed law that would allow the extradition of suspects from this former British colony to mainland China.

Since then, the violence has only escalated.

The authorities denounced protesters pulling them rioting criminals, while the opposition accuses the police of excess use of force.

On Saturday, supporters of the government staged their own smaller demonstration, supporting the police.

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But the government in mainland China has a more ominous message.

Showing off its security forces on the border with Hong Kong an obvious warning.

But these threats from Beijing haven't quelled Hongkong's descent.

But earlier this month, a senior Hong Kong government official told CNN there would be no compromise When it comes to the protestors demands.

The test of wills between the government and the people in the streets appears far from over.

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It's possible, but not certain, that they were mixed with other chemicals.

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