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Introducing of National Security law placards are placed at a secondary school, ahead of National Security Education Day, in Hong Kong, China April 12, 2021. Picture taken April 12, 2021. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
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Beijing s top representative in Hong Kong warned foreign powers on Thursday that they would be taught a lesson if they tried to use the global financial centre as a pawn , as tensions escalated between China and Western governments over the city.
Luo Huining, the director at China s Hong Kong Liaison Office, was speaking at a ceremony to mark an education day for the National Security law, which authorities have organised to promote the sweeping legislation China imposed last year.
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Do not split.
Out of the disunity and fractious tensions that followed the failure of the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests, that was the one slogan that kept Hongkongers united in a multi-faceted agitation for democratic reform that brought millions of people into the streets of the former British colony, starting two summers ago.
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Do not split, even if you’re a respectable solicitor and veteran of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy politics and you are obliged to hold your tongue while young militants take to confronting the tear gas and truncheons of the widely-loathed Hong Kong Police Force with mayhem and Molotov cocktails.
2021-04-19 17:04 By: Xinhua
Photo taken on April 15, 2021 shows a flag-raising ceremony held at the Hong Kong Police College in south China s Hong Kong. (Xinhua/Li Gang)
HONG KONG, April 15 (Xinhua) March! A team of Hong Kong police officers strode forward and performed the Chinese-style goose-stepping at a flag-raising ceremony held in the Hong Kong Police College on Thursday.
April 15 marked the first National Security Education Day since the implementation of the Law of the People s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) in late June last year.
Colleges of five disciplined services of the HKSAR government, including the Hong Kong Police Force, the Fire Services, the Correctional Services, the Customs and Excise, and the Immigration, held an Open Day and performed the People s Liberation Army-style foot drills to show nationalism and enhance awareness
Hong Kong marks security education day with military march and toy guns for kids
A child plays with a mock submachine gun at a model Mass Transit Railway (MTR) station during the open day to more Reuters / 2021年 4月 15日 Thursday A child plays with a mock submachine gun at a model Mass Transit Railway (MTR) station during the open day to mark the National Security Education Day, at Hong Kong Police College, in Hong Kong, China April 15, 2021. National Security Education Day, organized by authorities to promote the sweeping legislation China imposed last year, was marked with school activities, games and shows, and a parade by police and other services performing the Chinese military s goose step march.
2021-04-16 04:33:05 GMT2021-04-16 12:33:05(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
Citizens pose for a photo during an activity themed on National Security Education Day at the Hong Kong Police College in south China's Hong Kong, on April 15, 2021. Hong Kong on Thursday embraced its first National Security Education Day after the law on safeguarding national security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) came into force in mid-2020. Various activities, including lectures, exhibitions, mosaic walls and doors open days of disciplined services, were held to boost the public awareness of safeguarding national security in the global financial hub. (Xinhua/Li Gang)