Hundreds of thousands of residents in the city state have taken to the streets in protest of an Extradition Bill with China that analysts say is a larger objection to its autonomy, suspicious that the world's largest economy wants more control of the autonomous region that many see is an affront to the ages-old "One Country Two Systems" model.

For more insights, we speak to Samson Yuen, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.