Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam won praise from Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting Monday in Shanghai to talk about the city that has been besieged by protests for months since legislators first tried to consider an extradition bill.
While the extradition bill from the former British colony to mainland China was withdrawn, the protests by then had morphed into a pro-democracy movement which has now extended to 22 consecutive weekends.