China Broke Its Promises. That’s Why the Protests Are Back

It Is an Appalling Indictment of Our Leaders That They Are Confessing 22 Year's After the Transfer of Sovereignty That They Have Lost Touch with Hong Kong’s Roots, and the Anxieties and Fears That Drive Our Community. It Is One Thing to Encourage This Deep Self-Examination, but Quite Another to Actually Listen and Respond.

Has China Forgotten How Order Was Restored to Hong Kong in 2003?

Since the Basic Law Was Drafted Almost Three Decades Ago, a Significant Review of What Has Worked and What Has Not Would Surely Be Timely. the Review Could Take a Year or More, but If Our Cantankerous Community Could Be Convinced It Was Serious, Then I See a Real Chance for Our Summer of Discontent to Be Calmed.

Opinion | with Any Luck, Hong Kong’s Ninja Protesters Will Hang up Their Masks and the Summer of Discontent Will Pass

By Sarah Jenkins

• Oct 8, 2026 • 5 min read

Opinion | with Any Luck, Hong Kong’s Ninja Protesters Will Hang up Their Masks and the Summer of Discontent Will Pass

Direct Answer • Key Takeaway

I Speak from Some Experience, and Perhaps a Helpful Perspective. Around the Early 1970S, as Recession Gnarled Europe, the Vietnam War Raged, Parisian Students Were Hacking up Cobble Stones to Hurl at Armoured Police and Students on Most Campuses Across Europe Were Debating the Imminent Collapse of Capitalism, I Had the Dubious Fortune to Be Appointed Student President at My University.

Sarah Jenkins

Senior Technology Editor & AI Specialist

Sarah Jenkins is a veteran tech journalist with over 12 years of experience covering artificial intelligence, mobile innovations, and digital ethics. Her insights have appeared in leading technology publications worldwide.

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