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China demands love as it represses Hong Kong ANI | Updated: Mar 15, 2021 19:28 IST
Hong Kong, March 15 (ANI): If you can believe the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), then the former British colony of Hong Kong is thriving because of the former s magnanimity. The truth is that Beijing is determinedly stifling Hong Kong and turning it into a mimeograph of the rest of authoritarian China.
Interestingly, Xi Jinping s Party Work Report in 2017 stated (emphasis added), Since Hong Kong and Macao s return to the motherland, the practice of One Country, Two Systems in both regions has been a resounding success. The policy . has proved to be the best solution to the questions of Hong Kong and Macao, left by history, and the best institutional guarantee for the[ir] long-term prosperity and stability.
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Commission Criticizes Lack of Preparedness; U.S. Likely to Implement Sweeping Rule on Tech-Related Transactions
President Xi Jinping at a press conference in Kigali, Rwanda, taken on July 23, 2018. (Paul Kagame, https://flic.kr/p/28jsTzN; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) published its final report on March 1. The report stresses the importance of domestic investment in innovation and education, as well as a transformation of the federal approach to technology in national security. At the moment, the report indicates, the United States is “not prepared” to compete with China in a global technological competition.
The ‘China Model’ Is Expanding in Hong Kong
There are new signs of Hong Kong’s internet, legal, and press systems following in Beijing’s footsteps.
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From website blocking to SIM card registration to bail denial and a major shakeup at the public broadcaster, more signs of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s political, legal, and media controls have appeared in Hong Kong over the past month. The encroaching hand of Beijing was especially noticeable in three crucial areas: internet controls, criminal prosecutions, and public broadcasting.
Internet Controls
Internet controls restricting free speech and anonymity, which recall those in mainland China, had not previously been evident in Hong Kong. But such controls are starting to emerge in the territory. On February 12, internet service providers blocked access to the Taiwan Transitional Justice Commission website, according to internet users and reporters who said