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Op-Ed: China s year of repression ends with a cruel Christmas tradition

Op-Ed: China s year of repression ends with a cruel Christmas tradition Jessie Lau, Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Amy Hawkins © Provided by The LA Times Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai was ordered back to jail on Dec. 31, pending trial on charges of violating the new national security law. (Associated Press ) As the world struggled with the COVID-19 pandemic during the holiday season and Americans focused on Donald Trump’s frantic efforts to overturn the election he lost, China ended the year in a typical manner. As usual, the Chinese authorities embarked on their annual Christmas tradition of locking up dissidents and critics when the world was too distracted to pay attention.

Time for Hongkongers eligible for BN(O) visa scheme to choose where their loyalties lie

news Time for Hongkongers eligible for BN(O) visa scheme to choose where their loyalties lie Illustration: Stephen Case With yet another coronavirus lockdown in Britain, one cannot stretch one s legs easily other than in the supermarket. A brief chat I had with a butcher in a Surrey supermarket in September gave me much food for thought, as I had settled in Britain as a British National (Overseas) emigre a month earlier. The conversation started innocuously - where are you from? As soon as she said she was from China, and I Hong Kong, she asked me a question in Mandarin that had contributed to years of discontent and one year of social unrest in Hong Kong that culminated in Beijing s imposition of a national security law for the city on June 30 - is Hong Kong not part of China?

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