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The article reports on the protests in Hong Kong, China fueled by poor living conditions and low minimum wage as mainland China grows its power in the autonomous region. Topics discussed include the struggle of residents to pay for house or apartment rentals amid increasing housing prices, proposed bill governing extradition of criminal suspects to mainland China, and government policies that favor commercial property developers and the elite instead of affordable public housing program.

The article informs that the people of Hong Kong, China marched into the streets on June 23, 2019 protesting a proposed extradition bill and calling for the city's leader to step down.

The article reports on the national security law passed in Hong Kong on June 30, 2020 that limits free speech in the country.

The article discusses that nearly four months of pro-democracy protests have rocked Hong Kong, China. It mentions that the police have arrested more than 1,500 people and fired at least 2,000 rounds of tear gas. It notes that government refused to back down, and the mass demonstrations morphed into a broader movement about political reforms.

The article focuses on covert Chinese Twitter accounts or trolls aimed at spreading misinformation against the protesters in Hong Kong, China. Topics covered include number of troll accounts removed by Twitter due to their part in the effort to undermine the antigovernment protests in Hong Kong, features of the state-directed Tweet campaigns against Hong Kong protests and findings of the report from Australian Strategic Policy Institute on the disinformation offensive from China.

The article reports on the results of local elections in Hong Kong in November 2019, particularly the victory of pro-democracy candidates. Topics include the increasingly violent demonstrations in the semiautonomous Chinese region, the number of elected seats won by pro-democracy candidates, and the possible impact of the election on China's central government.