How the killing of George Floyd exposed Hong Kong activists' uneasy relationship with Donald Trump
The US president may be the pro-democracy movement’s biggest backer, but some protesters feel they are being used
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement has struggled to reconcile the support it has received from Donald Trump with his administration’s brutal crackdown on protests over the police killing of George Floyd.
In the past few weeks, unprecedented Black Lives Matter protests, renewed by the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer, have spread to every US state and to countries across the world, regardless of pandemic restrictions.
But in Hong Kong, where year-long mass protests share many similarities with those in the US, there was no mass rally.
An attempt at organising a BLM event on Sunday failed after pro-democracy protesters expressed concern about whether it had police approval and if attendees would be
