"We are not anti-China. We are here to fight for the rights we should have as citizens!"

On Sunday, thousands went on the street in Hong Kong to protest for greater political representation. Can Hong Kong become the key to solving many of the problems China is facing today?

The Washington Post writes:

Tens of thousands of people marched through Hong Kong on Sunday to protest the slow pace of democratic reform in this former British colony, but the territory's Beijing-backed leader again rejected demands to set a timetable for achieving universal suffrage.

It will be a torturous road still for the city-state. But if Hong Kong does not move toward greater political freedom, it will lose out to other large Chinese cities like Shanghai.