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Cautious Asian nations start deploying vaccine now proven elsewhere Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you're not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/ Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam receives China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in Hong Kong on Monday. | AFP-JIJI Bloomberg Feb 25, 2021 After sitting on the sidelines as the U.S. and Europe plowed headlong into vaccinating against COVID-19, the parts of the world that contained the novel coronavirus most successfully are now starting to administer shots...

Summary Before the British government handed over Hong Kong in 1997, China agreed to allow the region considerable political autonomy for fifty years under a framework known as “one country, two systems.”  In recent years, Beijing has cracked down on Hong Kong’s freedoms, stoking mass protests in the city and drawing international criticism.  Beijing imposed a national security law in 2020 that gave it broad new powers to punish critics and silence dissenters and could fundamentally alter life for Hong Kongers. Introduction China pledged to preserve much of what makes Hong Kong unique...

Dozens of former lawmakers and opposition activists were arrested Wednesday morning in Hong Kong on suspicion of violating the city's sweeping national security legislation, in the biggest crackdown since the law was imposed by Beijing last year.

AP Photo/Kin Cheung Hong Kong police have arrested at least 53 former lawmakers and democracy activists for violating the city’s draconian national security law. The crackdown targeted those responsible for organizing a primary election held last July in advance of the vote for the legislature. The primary was designed to cull the number of pro-democracy candidates and give the democracy movement a better chance of having a strong representation in the legislature. Eventually, the election was postponed due to the pandemic but authorities warned at the time that the organizers of the primar...

Executive lam's support with an extradition treaty with mainland china. the election results are sure to test beijing's response to the protest. more than 5,000 people have been arrested in hong kong. last week congress overwhelmingly passed legislation in support of human rights in hong kong, but on friday president trump signaled that he could veto the legislation saying, quote, we have to stand with hong kong, but i'm also standing with president xi, trump adding, quote, we are in the process of making the largest trade deal in history. newly released classified documents obtained by the ...