Hong Kong Freedom Fight

Pro-democracy legislators take on pro-Beijing cadres. Who will win?

HELEN CHENG From today's Wall Street Journal Asia.

Hong Kong's legislature debated China's Tiananmen Square massacre and the city-state's political freedoms Wednesday for a full six hours. In any other place, such a debate might be unremarkable. But in Hong Kong it is an important event, given recent hints that China may be rethinking the extent of the city-state's freedoms.