Alec Ash

Brave front: The pro-democracy guerrilla fighters taking on Hong Kong’s riot police

The Braves argue that Beijing will only respond to force, but the leaderless nature of the protests also encourages extremism

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 Hong Kong

‘I’m a whistleblower.’

Mo Ming zig-zagged through the tear-gas. He ran across a central Hong Kong flyover in a low crouch he learned from the shoot-’em-up video game Counter-Strike. It was 1 October, China’s National Day, and the confrontations in Hong Kong were in their 17th week.

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