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A draft decision on improving the electoral system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was submitted Friday to the fourth annual session of the 13th National Peoples Congress (NPC) for deliberation.

Beijing, Mar 5 (Prensa Latina) Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday that China will curb separatism in Taiwan and external interference in Hong Kong and Macao affairs, where it will also reinforce the One Country, Two Systems principle.

Xia Baolong stresses about “patriots governing Hong Kong”.

HK could only be ruled by ‘patriots’, which exclude those who lobby other countries for foreign sanctions or ‘troublemakers’

As tensions rise over China’s recent aggressive air patrolling across the Taiwan Strait, and concern mounts that Beijing may stage a provocation to coerce Taipei and test the mettle of President Joe Biden and his administration, how might the Chinese government employ the People’s Liberation Army in a crisis involving Taiwan? Would China move decisively to a full-scale invasion, while relying on its anti-access, area-denial (A2/AD) capabilities to raise the cost of US intervention to unacce...

What do we do when Beijing turns up heat on Taiwan? China will use grey area tactics of bullying rather than bullets against its rival in Taipei. Those may be difficult to counter. Share We should be preparing for a catastrophic war across the Taiwan Strait, if recent public commentary is any indication. However, the common assumption that informs these analyses – that Beijing would attack Taiwan – is outdated. A military invasion of Taiwan by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) cannot b...

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Image by Andrey Metelev/Unsplash. Use is free. The Hong Kong government kickstarted on January 29 a public consultation on a legislation proposal that would make real-name registration of mobile SIM cards mandatory. Hong Kongs Under-Secretary for Security Sonny Au Chi-kwong said in a press conference that the bill aims to curb mobile scams and other crimes, such as human trafficking and terrorist attacks. The bill mandates all mobile phone users in Hong Kong, including those with pre-paid SIM...

UK Visa Offer Addresses ‘Desperate Need’ of Hongkongers: Simon Cheng The UK’s new visa programme allowing Hong Kong British National (Overseas) status holders to live in the UK is “very generous” and “addresses the desperate needs of Hong Kong people,” an exiled Hong Kong human rights activist said. BN(O) status holders in Hong Kong and their eligible family members can apply for a visa to live, study, and work in the UK from Jan. 31, with the opportunity to renew the visa and e...

28 Jan 2021 A University of Hong Kong survey published Thursday revealed a nearly 20-percent drop in interest among Hong Kong residents in receiving any vaccine against the Chinese coronavirus between November and January, and that less than one-third of those living in the city would take a vaccine China developed. The survey revealed rapidly growing distrust in the city of both Hong Kong officials and their masters in Beijing, a distrust that had initially led to protests in 2019 against a pr...