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Apple Daily journalists hold freshly-printed copies of the newspaper's last edition while acknowledging supporters gathered outside their office in Hong Kong early on June 24, 2021.
The west's idea that they have a right to 'protect' Hong Kong from the China that it belongs to is fanciful, imperialist nonsense, and, to Beijing, reminiscent of their country's 'century of humiliation.'
It's now been one year since China's National People's Congress
passed the "
National Security Law" - a sweeping bill tailored for the Hong Kong special administrative region. Following a series of extremely violent protests encouraged by the US and others in 2019, the bill criminalized secessionism, treason, subversion and terrorism in the territory, as required by Hong Kong's basic law mini constitution. It didn't take long after that to bring the protest movement to an end.
Critics, of course, have repeatedly accused Beijing of "
crushing democracy" in the former British colony. Leading protest figures, such as Joshua Wong, Nathan Law, and Jimmy Lai, have been jailed or have fled. Lai's newspaper, the Apple Daily, was also
closed down, while the opposition in the legislative council has since long resigned.
Unsurprisingly, the US has retaliated by imposing sanctions on certain officials, including city executive Carrie Lam among others, and repeatedly yields the rhetoric that it "stands with Hong Kong." The UK has, in a different move, invited British National Overseas Passport holders to come and live in Britain. The recurring theme in media coverage is that the law has meant "the end of Hong Kong"... at least as it was once known.
Comment: Harvard is annihilating everything its previous reputation had built.
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