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Hong Kong’s Present Echoes Tibet’s Past In both 1959 Tibet and 2019 Hong Kong, popular dissent became a flashpoint for the end of meaningful autonomy – just as Beijing had planned. By January 25, 2021 Tibetan monks walk past a police car on the streets of Kangding, Ganzi prefecture of southwestern China’s Sichuan province on Monday, March 9, 2009. Credit: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan Advertisement The current socio-political re-engineering in Hong Kong — called the...

China has threatened a counterstrike against Australia after Canberra condemned Beijings mass arrest of 55 politicians and activists in Hong Kong. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lijian Zhao, who has a fake image of an Australian soldier holding a bloody knife to a childs throat pinned to the top of his Twitter account, said anyone who gets in the way of Chinas affairs would suffer. The Chinese peoples resolve to defend our sovereignty and territorial integrity is unshakeable and we will not permit ...

My Country, My System The Chinese Communist Partys steady dismantling of the freedoms and rule of law Hong Kong was promised under the One Country, Two Systems policy took a quantum leap on Jan. 6 with the arrest on "subversion" 53 people who were involved in a primary election aimed at selecting pro-democracy candidates for Legislative Council elections in the former British colony. 2021-01-06

From the Right: Biden would do well to learn from Berlin in 1934, Beijing in 2018 Russ Sloan In 1934, Adolph Hitler assumed total power when German President Paul von Hindenburg died. Hitler was the chancellor under von Hindenburg but upon his death the positions of chancellor and president were combined under a new title of Fuhrer.  Now Adolph Hitler had complete dictatorial control. The foundation was in place for Hitlers ambitions for world domination. His first step occurred when he annex...

May 24, 2020 During a press conference of the annual national legislative session on May 24, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi made remarks in response to a question on national security legislation for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Wang made it clear that Hong Kong affairs are China’s internal affairs and allows no external interference. The central government has its right and responsibility to uphold national security through establishing a legal system an...

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Hong Kong has done well in its fight against COVID-19. The larger concern for the city may be getting caught in US-China tensions, says University ...

Under Hong Kongs New National Security Law, Authorities Arrest Top Pro-Democracy Activists December 17, 2020 | By Heath Sloane Introduction In recent weeks, Hong Kong authorities have conducted sweeping arrests of high-profile activists for alleged breaches of the countrys new National Security Law. In the latest blow to the citys pro-democracy movement, veteran activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam were sentenced to extended prison time, while media mogul Jimmy Lai was formally char...

China imposed sanctions on Thursday against various U.S. officials who allegedly "performed badly" over Hong Kong issues.

A bill intended to help people fleeing Hong Kong actually does not and also undermines U.S. immigration law. Read more at ImmigrationReform.com