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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
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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. ....

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


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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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