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Attendees hold up their lit mobile phones to mark the six months anniversary memorial for a man who fell to his death while hanging a protest banner against an extradition bill, in Hong Kong Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019 in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China’s Xi: Hong Kong had its ‘grimmest’ year since handover

By YANAN WANG and JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

A protester gestures after riot police pull out from a street in Hong Kong, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019. Hundreds of silver-haired activists joined young Hong Kong protesters for a unity rally Saturday, vowing that their monthslong movement will not fade away until there is greater democracy in the Chinese territory. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

The Latest: Riot police out in force for Hong Kong march

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Election winner candidate Kelvin Lam, right, and pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong, second right, wave to people and thank for their support, outside South Horizons Station in Hong Kong, Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. Pro-democracy candidates won nearly half of the seats in Hong Kong's local elections, according to partial returns Monday, as voters sent a clear signal of support for the anti-government protests that rocked the Chinese territory for more than five months. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Pro-democracy camp wins Hong Kong elections in landslide

By Eileen Ng and Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

A school principal, center, escorts two youths to surrender to the police at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. Police tightened their siege of the university campus where hundreds of protesters remained trapped overnight Tuesday in the latest dramatic episode in months of protests against growing Chinese control over the semi-autonomous city. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Police surround last holdouts at Hong Kong university

By Ken Moritsugu and Andi Jatmiko - Associated Press

Medical volunteers help an injured man after being attacked by pro-democracy protesters during a crash between protesters and police in Hong Kong, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam has pledged to &quot;spare no effort&quot; in bringing an end to anti-government protests that have wracked the city for more than five months, following a day of violence in which one person was shot and another set on fire. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Tear gas and fires: Hong Kong protests from morning to night

By KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

In this Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping poses with Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam for a photo during a meeting in Shanghai, China. Lam is here for the second China International Import Expo (CIIE). (Ju Peng/Xinhua via AP)

Xi meets Lam in ‘vote of confidence’ over Hong Kong protests

By EILEEN NG - Associated Press

Activist barred from election as Hong Kong nears recession

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

Chan Tong-kai, center, talks to the media as he is released from prison in Hong Kong Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. Chan, who's wanted for killing his girlfriend last year on the self-ruled island, had asked the Hong Kong government for help turning himself in to Taiwan after his sentence for money laundering offenses ends on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Q&A: How a woman’s death got tangled in Hong Kong politics

By RALPH JENNINGS - Associated Press

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks as she attends a question and answer session with lawmakers at the chamber of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Hong Kong says murder suspect wants to surrender to Taiwan

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Security officers pursue pro-democracy lawmaker Au Nok-hin, center, as he runs across desks to chase Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam leaving a question and answer session with lawmakers at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Opposition protests suspend Hong Kong assembly session

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Pro-democracy lawmakers protest as Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam delivers a speech at chamber of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. Chanting pro-democracy lawmakers have interrupted the start of a speech that Lam was giving laying out her policies. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The Latest: HK protest organizer attacked with hammers

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Journalists take photos as Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks during a press conference at the government building in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. A homemade, remote-controlled bomb intended to &quot;kill or to harm&quot; riot control officers was detonated as they deployed against renewed violence in Hong Kong over the weekend, police said Monday, in a further escalation of destructive street battles gripping the business hub. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Hammer attack, thwarted speech stir more chaos in Hong Kong

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 17, 2019, file photo, a man walks alone on normally busy road near the Legislative Council after protesters continue to protest against the extradition bill in Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday that the city’s economy is being battered by months of increasingly violent protests. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

Protests squeezing Hong Kong economy, tourism, leader says

By JOHNSON LAI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2019, file photo, an injured man is carried away during protests in Hong Kong. With Hong Kong’s summer of protests now stretching into the fall and clashes becoming increasingly ferocious, medical professionals have quietly banded together to form the Hidden Clinic and other networks to secretly treat the injuries of many young demonstrators who fear arrest if they go to government hospitals. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Hong Kong’s undercover medics reveal hidden toll of protests

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks during a press conference in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu

Lam says Chinese military could step in if uprising gets bad

By EILEEN NG - Associated Press

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks during a press conference in Hong Kong on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. Lam has banned protesters from wearing masks to conceal their identities in a hardening of the government's stance against the 4-month-old demonstrations. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Thousands protest mask ban as Hong Kong leader toughens stance

By John Leicester and Eileen Ng - Associated Press

Protesters wear masks and hold up their hands represent the five demands in Hong Kong on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters marched in the city center ahead of reported plans by the city’s embattled leader to deploy emergency powers to ban people from wearing masks in a bid to quash four months of anti-government demonstrations. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

The Latest: Beijing says chaos in Hong Kong can’t continue

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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam listens to a question during a community dialogue with selected participants at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. Scores of protesters chanted slogans outside the venue as Lam began the town hall session Thursday aimed at cooling down months of demonstrations for greater democracy in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Town hall speakers rebuke Lam for Hong Kong protest response

By EILEEN NG - Associated Press

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks to reporters during a press conference at the government building in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Lam said the government asked international public relations firms to help restore the city's reputation, battered by months of pro-democracy protests, but was rejected. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Lam says PR firms declined to help restore Hong Kong’s image

By EILEEN NG - Associated Press

Students hold a placard reads &quot;Freedom&quot; as they form human chain outside a school in Hong Kong, Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Thursday that the decision to withdraw an extradition bill that sparked months of demonstrations in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory was her government's own initiative to break the impasse, and not Beijing's directive. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Fitch cuts Hong Kong credit rating, citing protests

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