To understand these developments and to constructively contribute to advancing peaceful solutions, it is important to look beyond a polarized and static framing of the divergent issues being debated among the movement’s leaders and participants on how to proceed. An exciting and difficult democratic process is clearly underway and we should not lose sight of these areas of consensus. One, there’s consensus about the importance of preserving Hong Kong’s way of life and core values—rule of law, democracy, and human rights—as promised in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration and Hong Kong’s Basic Law.