"The public was nominally demanding the recall of the chief executive," recalls Tam. "But their actual significance was that they were the first time that the people had stood up to talk back to Beijing."
「表面上，香港民眾提出的訴求是撤換特首，」譚自強回憶，「但實質上，這等於是他們第一次站出來跟北京當局嗆聲對話。」