Conservative Foreign Affairs Critic Michael Chong Condemns Attack on Epoch Times Hong Kong Printing Press The Conservative Party’s foreign affairs critic Michael Chong has condemned the April 12 attack on the Hong Kong Epoch Times printing facility, and is calling on Ottawa to speak out against the Chinese regime’s crackdown on freedom of the press. “This attack follows Beijing’s ban on the BBC from broadcasting in China, and the expulsion of dozens of foreign journalists from mainland China,” Chong said in a statement. “The Chinese communist leadership continues to violate international law in Hong Kong by breaching the terms of the 1984 Joint Declaration, which guarantees freedom of the press and freedom of speech,” the MP said, referring to agreement between Beijing and the UK which set the terms for handing Hong Kong back to China from British rule in 1997.