Posted on 06/25/2021 1:46:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Apple Daily (Píngguǒ Rìbào), Hong Kong's main newspaper, announced it will print its final issue today, ending a 26-year run. The "pro-democracy" publication also stopped updating its website.
The paper is cash-rich, but $2.3 million of its funds have been frozen under the National Security Law, which China imposed on the territory last June 30. As a result, Apple Daily is not able to meet financial obligations as they come due.
Beijing has been steadily moving to end all public criticism in Hong Kong. The paper's closure should be viewed as the end of freedom in the territory, now part of the People's Republic of China.
As The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, the closure of Apple Daily marks the end of "an era of unfettered reporting critical of Beijing in the city's mainstream print scene."
Last Thursday, about 500 police officers conducted a raid on the paper's offices, arresting Editor-in-Chief Ryan Law and three others. At the same time, the police moved against Next Digital, the paper's publisher, by detaining CEO Cheung Kim-hung. These arrests, and that of an opinion writer at the paper yesterday, were made under the National Security Law. The paper was previously the subject of another large-scale raid last August.
Apple Daily's majority owner, Jimmy Lai, is currently serving a 14-month sentence in Hong Kong for participating in a peaceful protest in 2019. He faces six additional charges, two of them made under the National Security Law. If convicted, the 73-year-old Lai could receive life sentences.
Britain "handed over" Hong Kong to the People's Republic on July 1, 1997 pursuant to the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984. In that treaty, Beijing promised the territory, now formally the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 50 years of a "high degree of autonomy."
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The paper that stated only Trump can save Hong Kong.
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Notice not one fat person among them.
Hong Kong’s Apple Daily will be replaced by the New York Times
to represent Hong Kong’s new owner”s, the CCP, point of view.
That’s what libtards want for OAN.
Why did Great Britain exit Hong Kong? Was it supposed to be politically correct? I’m sure the residents of Hong Kong wish Great Britain still controlled the joint. Without Great Britain, Hong Kong wouldn’t have had a democracy.
I have spoken to many friends in Hong Kong who observe this:
The CCP is hoping it can have, in one small portion of China, Western-style financial markets but none of the underlying freedoms that make those markets possible. In other words, the Party is seeking both extraordinary control and sustainable prosperity.
I am not sure if this can be done. Can Hong Kong maintain her status as a global financial center?
What I see is Hong Kong from hereon, simply being a clone of neighboring Shenzen or Shanghai. But those cities are unlike Hong Kong was, which was truly international in scope.
Article leaves out the faith component that drives Jimmy Lai
You are correct. Hong Kong was unique.
In earlier times Shanghai was similar to what Hong Kong became.
Ever since the communists were gifted Hong Kong from the UK they have planned to replace Hong Kong with Shanghai.
They are beginning the process.
They believe Shanghai can provide what your friends describe.
We were supposed to go in and liberate HK? lol. Tibet could not be reached for comment.
Have the ChiComs already disarmed them? Or were they not allowed under the British?
“Why did Great Britain exit Hong Kong? “
Because they held it under a 100 year lease, which was expiring. Unlike Taiwan, Hong Kong had always been a part of China.
“Without Great Britain, Hong Kong wouldn’t have had a democracy.”
A wag once noted, that wherever the French ruled, they left better cuisine behind, wherever the Spanish ruled they were left with better parties, and wherever the British ruled, they were left with better Governments.
Go to WalMart and see the motorized carts with fat rolling over the sides. You can see them in the candy aisle reaching for all they’re worth to get their Hostess Ding Dongs and Little Debbie Swiss Rolls.
*“Why did Great Britain exit Hong Kong? “*
“Because they held it under a 100 year lease, which was expiring. Unlike Taiwan, Hong Kong had always been a part of China”
Untrue.
You are ignorant or lying scum propagandist
Which one, Nipfan?
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