//Political scientist Dr Brian Fong Chi-hang, one of 18 scholars who floated a middle-of-the-road reform plan last year, said there was no longer such a pathway available.
Fong said the moderate approach was based on an assumption that there were also liberals within the central government able to interact with Hong Kong's pan-democrats, but Beijing's restrictive framework on political reform had proven that was not the case.
"I would not be a moderate again and bow for dialogue with Beijing," said the academic. "We are fighting for democracy, not merely for consensus."//
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