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Critics: Hong Kong Protests Show Low Popular Opinion of China's Legal System

Bill Ide

   (VOA's Erin Hale and Richard Green contributed to this story.)

   BEIJING-- Beijing is working feverishly to lay claim to the moral high
   ground as a debate over a law in Hong Kong that would allow extradition
   to China has triggered massive protests and violent clashes between
   police and protesters.

   As it puts it support squarely behind Hong Kong's increasingly
   embattled leader Carrie Lam, censors in China are working overtime to
   scrub the Internet and social media of any discussion of the rallies
   and the fierce debate the extradition law has triggered.

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