While people might debate that this series of protests are due to politics or foreign influence, I think that it is fundamentally a result of the decades of widening wealth gap. Now there are simply too many Hong Kong'ers who cannot envision a good future and they feel that they simply have nothing to lose.

This should be a wake-up call for the world to seriously look at the problem of a widening wealth gap. It is a global issue, not just in HK. This can happen in any country or city if the gap between the haves and have-nots get too big