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How To Start A Revolution

Revolutions don't just happen. A data-driven approach to studying activism suggests two characteristics can vastly increase chances of success.
Hong Kong anti-extradition law protest on June 16, 2019.

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Hong Kongers are showing the world how to protest.

Hong Kong is an autonomous region of China that kind of runs on finance. Its stock exchange is the fifth largest in the world. And it's an attractive base for a lot of multinational companies, partly because Hong Kong has a predictable rule of

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