After the Urumqi fire in Xinjiang, there were protests in many places on the mainland. There were also people holding plain white paper on the streets of Hong Kong, and in various colleges and universities as a sign of support. The Secretary for Security, Chris Tang Ping-keung, responded to the incident in the Legislative Council on Nov. 29, claiming that it was an “attempt to incite activities against the central government” and described it as “the early signs of another color revolution.”
Tang said that he found some people raised and instigated related activities on different social media platforms. Some of them went as far as organizing and urging others to take to the streets, using university campuses as bases and using similar props (white paper) as symbols….