Meet The High School Student Leading Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Movement — mtv.com

He’s not old enough to vote yet, Joshua Wong has become the face of a political movement, taking on the world’s biggest Communist state so that his country can be free. In a sea of rallying grown-ups, you can spot Wong — he’s the skinny, chunky glasses-wearing teen inspiring thousands of his fellow protestors. The 17-year-old is now widely perceived as the unofficial leader of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy “Umbrella Revolution”, leading thousands of activists decades his senior in a peaceful, yet tense battle to secure a democratic future for his nation.

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