Hong Kong's biggest protest in months may be a trailer for the year 2020

Companies have got caught in the middle of the protests. Chinese retailers and branches of lenders like Bank of China Ltd have been ransacked by vandals

Hong Kong saw its biggest pro-democracy protest in months Sunday, signaling more unrest to come in 2020 as the movement that began in June to fight China’s increasing grip on the city shows its staying power.

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flooded the city’s major downtown boulevards, many waving US flags, singing “Glory to Hong Kong” and chanting “Five demands, not one less.” The march drew a cross-section of Hong Kong society -- from parents with young kids to senior citizens -- and was largely peaceful throughout the afternoon, although tensions emerged between riot police and some radical demonstrators at night.

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