Hong Kong extradition protests: Do China demonstrations ever work?
"Under Hu Jintao [Mr Xi's predecessor] you had a central leadership that's much more willing to allow local leaderships to deal with things their way - whereas Xi is focused a lot more on strengthening party leadership and discipline.
Despite being mostly peaceful - and making headlines around the world - the protests failed to achieve any concessions from Beijing.Despite not being formally allowed by law, tens of thousands of protests - mostly on local or environmental issues - actually take place each year. However, he says this has also reduced in recent years as the Communist Party has tightened its control centrally.
After the major protests in 2003, the government made major concessions to the national security bill - but still intended to push it through the legislative council.
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