Timeline: Unease grows in Hong Kong about eroding freedoms

HONG KONG – Steps by the Chinese and Hong Kong governments in recent years have raised unease among Hong Kong residents about their future, a concern that burst out in a protest by hundreds of thousands of people last weekend.

Many in the semiautonomous Chinese territory worry the freedoms they enjoy under a "one-country, two-systems" framework are eroding, as both governments use carrots and sticks to draw Hong Kong into China's orbit.