Occupy HK is Over. Now Begins the Deluge

"It definitely isn't the end of Hong Kong's democratic movement," said Mr Lester Shum, a leader of the Hong Kong Federation of Students. "It is unrealistic to think a single movement can change everything. Real civil disobedience is long term." 

The protests posed the biggest challenge to China's authority since the end of British rule in 1997, deepening tensions between those who welcome or at least tolerate Chinese influence and those who oppose it. 

The protests sent a clear message to Beijing that it cannot exert total control over Hong Kong, even if the move towards full democracy takes decades.

"It is going to be a different world, a world of permanent political crisis," said Mr Hung Ho-fung, an Associate Professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University who studies China and Hong Kong.

Mr Ma Ngok, Associate Professor of political science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, predicted that there will be more confrontations. "The crisis of governance should deepen, because the government will be faced with a movement of non-cooperation".

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