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Skip to content Menu Bloomberg Businessweek LIVE NOW Bloomberg Equality: Race Money and Wall Street Watch Live Hong Kong’s Yellow Movement Turns Chinese Propaganda on Its Head Pro-democracy businesses are displaying vintage communist posters as Beijing clamps down on speech. By Sheridan Prasso August 5, 2020, 1:00 PM PDT Pong, at his Just’er Bar & Restaurant. PHOTOGRAPHER: BILLY H.C. KWOK FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK The striking red-and-white protest posters on the windows of a Hong Kong restaurant proclaim in Chinese, “Revolution Is No Crime! To Rebel Is Justified!” and “Carry the Revolution Through to the End.” Once meant to rally the proletariat in Mao Zedong’s China, they carry a new meaning in Hong Kong: The opposition to China’s clampdown on Hong Kong’s autonomy may be struggling, but it isn’t dead. Across Hong Kong, among the thousands of restaurants, shops, and other small businesses participating in what’s known as the “ yellow economy ” in support of anti-government