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Hong Kong crisis escalates as China moves to hasten demise of city's autonomy
2020-04-21
More CCP tyranny.
With Hong Kong's streets in recent months cleared of mass protests due to the coronavirus, legislators and activists in the city's pro-democracy camp say the Communist Party and the Hong Kong authorities have used the opportunity to cripple their movement through a multipronged approach while world attention has been diverted elsewhere by the pandemic.
Aside from the mass arrests and increasingly pointed declarations about China's "supervisory" role over the city, Chinese officials in Hong Kong, including the newly installed director of the central government's liaison office, Luo Huining, have called for improved "national security education" in Hong Kong and the passage of a national security law that would toughen up law enforcement and prosecutorial powers to help prevent protests.
Posted by:Matt

#3  Gosh, I'm starting to think that "One-country, two-systems" thing was just a long con.

Apparently, it is time to kill the goose with the golden eggs to scare the monkeys or however that saying goes.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-04-21 19:01  

#2  killing the Goose with the Golden Eggs
Posted by: Frank G   2020-04-21 17:21  

#1  The Chicoms probably see the post Wuhan virus backlash as inevitable. No more need to appease the world by tolerating a 2nd system in the Middle Kingdom.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2020-04-21 16:12  

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