Doesn't get much coverage but this has been on low simmer for a number of years. There are also frequent allegations of mass protests on the mainland happening on a regular basis. The Chinese authorities seem to have been very patient so far re Hong Kong. Interesting to see what will happen from here.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/02/hong-kong-police-detain-hundreds-protest
Hong Kong police have arrested more than 500 protesters for illegally "occupying" a street in the city's central business district, hours after hundreds of thousands of residents gathered for the city's biggest pro-democracy demonstration in recent history.
On Sunday night, OCLP wrapped up an unofficial "referendum" in which nearly 800,000 people – more than 10% of Hong Kong's population – votesd. The vast majority of them requested the ability to choose their own top leader by a process of public nomination, a possibility which Beijing categorically rejects
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/02/hong-kong-police-detain-hundreds-protest
Hong Kong police have arrested more than 500 protesters for illegally "occupying" a street in the city's central business district, hours after hundreds of thousands of residents gathered for the city's biggest pro-democracy demonstration in recent history.
On Sunday night, OCLP wrapped up an unofficial "referendum" in which nearly 800,000 people – more than 10% of Hong Kong's population – votesd. The vast majority of them requested the ability to choose their own top leader by a process of public nomination, a possibility which Beijing categorically rejects