SHENZHEN, China: Living and working just a few hundred meters from Hong Kong, residents of neighboring Chinese boomtown Shenzhen are infuriated by new restrictions on travel to the former British colony.

Nearly two decades after the territory was reunited with the mainland under a “one country, two systems” system, the model is straining at both ends, with Hong Kongers taking to the streets to demand greater democracy, and mainlanders visiting in their millions.

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