Posted on 04/20/2021 7:58:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The suppressive climate in Hong Kong cultivated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—under which attackers can rampage the printing press of one of the city’s independent newspapers with impunity—is what Beijing hopes to foist onto the West, according to Guo Jun, director of the Hong Kong edition of The Epoch Times.
Once hailed for its democratic freedoms, Hong Kong has seen a steady rollback of its autonomy since the former British colony reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. Over the past year, Beijing imposed sweeping laws to criminalize vaguely defined acts of secession, subversion, and foreign collusion, while instituting electoral reforms declaring that only “patriots” could rule the territory.
Since then, authorities have prosecuted dozens under the new security law or other charges, including most recently media mogul Jimmy Lai, publisher of local outlet Apple Daily and a fierce critic of the Chinese regime.
“Hong Kong is the perfect example of how the CCP turned a free society into one where people fear speaking freely,” Guo said in a recent interview for The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” program.
“Today, even the Oscars can’t be aired in Hong Kong because movies have to be reviewed by the Chinese regime before they can be played in Hong Kong theaters. The Chinese regime, step by step, turned Hong Kong into this,” she said, adding that she has observed the same phenomenon happening in the West.
“Hollywood, some big tech companies, Wall Street, they need to do business with China, so they toe the Chinese Communist Party line when it comes to topics that the Chinese Communist Party does not like,” she said.
“Imperceptibly, things change around you and you realize the world is different,” she said. “People don’t dare to say what they really feel because they fear being attacked or discriminated...
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I’m only surprised at how long the repression was delayed. It has been 24 years since the British handed the colony over.
Taiwan’s next. Xi will probably make his move while feckless Democrats are still in charge here.
I got NOOZE for ya, Xi Biden and cameltoe are plundering the US too ...
Bkmk
I remember watching the 1997 handover of HK. A guarantee of sovereignty for 50 years was much touted. I remember thinking that would give time for the current crowd to die off and let a new generation take a fresh look. Made sense.
He CCCP is doinf the same thing here. Yes, china is behind most of the woke insanity. Libs are too easy to manipulate. What that new chinese word for libs?
What that new chinese word for libs?
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Laowhy - applies to everyone not a Han Chinese.
Also Baizuo
“Baizuo,” that’s the one!
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