Hong Kong's descent into darkness
Tiananmen without the massacre

Each week brings new reports of reprisals against activists. In December 2020, three twenties activists, Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam started prison terms for taking part in nonviolent acts of civil disobedience. Ted Hui, a moderate member of the pro-democracy camp was driven into exile. The gadfly journalist Jimmy Lai is being held without bail ahead of an April trial date. All of which adds up to Hong Kong having experienced its own version of the post-Tiananmen crackdown.

After new National Security Law imposed by Beijing, singing "Glory to Hong Kong" is to risk arrest since Beijing sees it as potential evidence of subversive "separatist" tendencies.

There is a feeling in Hong Kong that changes for the worse are coming so fast that the overall experience is disorienting as well as distressing

Source: Nikkei Asia #Dec20

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