article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Four months after the end of the massive Occupy protests that clogged Hong Kong streets in a bid for greater voting rights, another confrontation is heating up in Hong Kong.
article_snippet.sent: In a speech before the city's legislature, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam said that if approved, A controversial Beijing-backed election proposal would give Hong Kongers the right to vote for Hong Kongers next leader in 2017.
article_snippet.sent: Hong Kong has become increasingly polarized over the last few years as Hong Kong fights over what kind of political system Hong Kong should have as a Special Administrative Region of China.
article_snippet.sent: According to the agreement signed by the United Kingdom that returned Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1997, Hong Kong would receive 50 years of "high autonomy" under an arrangement called "One Country, Two Systems.
article_snippet.sent: But nearly eighteen years after the handover, Hong Kong continues to fight over what universal suffrage really means.
article_snippet.sent: Hong Kong leaders argue Hong Kong's leaders latest proposal fulfills the long-awaited promise of universal suffrage by giving each resident the right to cast a vote.
article_snippet.sent: Pro-democracy Hong Kongers beg to differ.
article_snippet.sent: To say the majority of Hong Kongers want to support its latest proposal is a blatant lie..
highlights_snippet.sent: Reform proposal would give Hong Kongers right to vote for Hong Kongers next leader in 2017 .
  