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| DATE | 2021-02-25 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] We need to end our trade with China
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wsj.com
China’s Campaign to Crush Democracy in Hong Kong Is Working
Wenxin Fan
2 minutes
HONG KONG—Just eight months after Beijing imposed a new
national-security law to quell a pro-democracy movement, this
freewheeling former British colony has all but been brought to heel.
Moving with a scope and speed few here anticipated, authorities have
used the law to stamp out street protests, ban activists from lobbying
foreign governments, gut the city’s legislature and arrest most of the
opposition.
“Everything that’s happening in Hong Kong today was unimaginable a year
ago,” political satirist Sam Ng, whose show was taken off air by a
government broadcaster last year, told his 250,000 YouTube followers in
January.
Beijing is signaling that this is just the start, outlining more
institutional changes to ensure complete control over the city’s
governance and eject opponents. China’s leaders are planning to revamp
election rules that select Hong Kong’s top officials as well as
grass-roots legislators. The proposals are expected to be formalized at
its annual legislation meeting in early March.
Hong Kong can only be governed by “patriots” who aren’t opposed to the
Communist Party’s leadership, Xia Baolong, the chief of Beijing’s office
on Hong Kong affairs, said in a policy speech this week in Beijing.
“Those who violate Hong Kong’s national security law aren’t patriots.”
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