This book shows that Hong Kong¿s protests from June to December 2019 originated from not only an attempt to extradite a Hong Kong man involved in a Taiwan murder case, but also Chinäs effort at extraditing corrupt mainlanders who laundered dirty money in the territory. The mixture of peaceful and violent protests was due to the snowballing effect of protestors-police confrontations, the imbalanced way in which police exercised their power, and protestors¿ strategies. The protests triggered the national security concerns of Beijing, which mobilized the People¿s Armed Police to Shenzhen as a warning rather than sending them openly to Hong Kong to avoid undermining the image