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Source: China State Council Information Office 2 Benny Tai Yiu-ting and other 46 instigators of Hong Kong unrest charged with “conspiring to subvert state power” appeared in court on Monday. The following elaborates on Tai’s political manipulation, including the so-called “primary election,” over the past years. During the election of the sixth-term Legislative Council (LegCo) in 2016, Tai launched “Operation ThunderGo” to disrupt the election with “coordinated candidacy” and other political tricks. In 2019, he initiated “Project Storm” t...

On February 22, in a speech delivered at an online panel held by the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies, Xia sent a strong signal, saying that being patriotic is not an abstract theory and it means loving the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Communist Party of China (CPC) led the Chinese people to establish the PRC. In China, which practices socialist democracy, there is room for different political opinion, but there is a red line, that is to say, activity that undermines the fundamental system of the country, the socialist system under the leadership of the CPC, will nev...

Beijing listens to suggestions on HK political reforms Chen Qingqing and Bai Yunyi Published: Mar 01, 2021 11:26 PM Police vans carrying 47 people in Hong Kong, arrested in January for "conspiring to subvert state power," arrive at West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts on Monday. The defendants aged between 23 and 64 faced the court the same day. Photo: VCG Over the week, senior central government officials on Hong Kong affairs listened to views from Hong Kong society on imminent political reforms, unleashing important messages about how to plug the loopholes in existing systems and carry on the...

Dozens of anti-govt figures in HK charged, sounding deterrence ahead of reform Chen Qingqing and Bai Yunyi Published: Feb 28, 2021 09:26 PM Photo taken on July 1, 2020 shows the Golden Bauhinia Square after a flag-raising ceremony held by the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in Hong Kong. (Photo: Xinhua)  On Sunday, 47 anti-government figures in Hong Kong including local scholar Benny Tai Yiu-ting were formally charged with conspiring to subvert state power, as the imminent electoral reform in Hong Kong to ensure the city's political system meets the principle that...

A symposium on improving the institutional framework of "one country, two systems" and implementing the fundamental principle of "patriots governing Hong Kong" was held in Beijing Monday.