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This picture taken on May 29, 2019 shows 21-year-old student William Chan posing in front of a replica of the "Goddess of Democracy" statue from the 1989 Tiananmen democracy protests, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong. - Hong Kong's youth are shunning their city's annual Tiananmen vigil, focused on fighting their own pro-democracy battles instead of commemorating a historical atrocity against compatriots from whom they feel steadily more alienated. (Photo by ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP) / TO GO WITH China-politics-Tiananmen-HongKong-youth,FOCUS by Yan Zhao and Jerome Taylor (Photo credit should read ISAAC LAWRENCE/AFP/Getty Images)

This picture taken on May 29, 2019 shows 21-year-old student William Chan posing in front of a replica of the "Goddess of Democracy" statue from the 1989 Tiananmen democracy protests, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong. - Hong Kong's youth are shunning their city's annual Tiananmen vigil, focused on fighting their own pro-democracy battles instead of commemorating a historical atrocity against compatriots from whom they feel steadily more alienated. (Photo by ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP) / TO GO WITH China-politics-Tiananmen-HongKong-youth,FOCUS by Yan Zhao and Jerome Taylor (Photo credit should read ISAAC LAWRENCE/AFP/Getty Images)
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