Hong Kong’s pro-democracy legislators resigned en masse on Wednesday just hours after the Beijing-dominated Hong Kong government disqualified four of its members for being “unpatriotic.” It is the latest crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong by the mainland government. Marco Werman speaks with Wu Chi-wai, one of the pro-democracy legislators who resigned. He is the chairman of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong.
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