Hong Kong police announced on Wednesday that officers had made their first arrest under the Communist Party’s new “national security” law: a man found to have in his possession a flag reading “Hong Kong independence.”
Former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said that the UK should take as many Hong Kong refugees as it can, describing the “authoritarian overreach” of the draconian national security law implemented by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a Tiananmen Square moment for the free world.
Communist China’s oppressive security law for Hong Kong was imposed over the weekend and led to arrests almost immediately as pro-democracy demonstrators flooded the streets.
Washington has suspended regulations allowing Hong Kong to import sensitive U.S. technology, citing security risks, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Tuesday.
Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong are primed for demonstrations after the Chinese Communist Party approved its “national security” law on Tuesday morning, a day before the 23rd anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from the British Empire.
The top membership of the pro-democracy Hong Kong group Demosisto resigned from their positions on Tuesday, triggering the disbanding of the group entirely. A staple in anti-China advocacy in the city for four years, Demosisto’s members expressed reservations at the passing of Beijing’s “national security” law.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping signed a decree on Tuesday enacting a “national security” law that allows the Communist Party to antagonize and prosecute dissidents in Hong Kong, triggering global condemnation and widespread concern among participants in the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has “taken the world to the brink of a new Cold War” with Hong Kong serving as the new frontline in the fight between “freedom and autocracy”, the founder and chairman of Hong Kong Watch told Breitbart London.
China will impose visa restrictions on U.S. individuals who have “acted viciously” on issues related to Hong Kong, China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday.
The Chinese government still refuses to publish the full text of the “national security law” it will soon impose on Hong Kong.
Hong Kong police officers allegedly assaulted an autistic pro-democracy protestor last Friday, violently shoving him to the ground and using pepper spray to incapacitate him, Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily reported on Thursday.
During a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) urged the Trump administration to use tools it has been given by Congress and work with allies to impose consequences on China for its actions in Hong Kong and stated that “If some of the same brave Hong Kongers who have stood up for liberty, waved our American flag, and singing our American national anthem would like to come here and join us, we should welcome them, warmly.”
Police have fined more than 700 people in Hong Kong since late March for violating the region’s Chinese coronavirus lockdown measures after participating in long-running pro-democracy demonstrations against Chinese repression.
Thousands of people in Hong Kong gathered on Monday to observe the anniversary of the death of Marco Leung, a protester who fell to his death on the eve of the largest protest in the city’s history.
A Hong Kong real estate agent accused of attacking a man with a knife and physically assaulting another person during last Friday’s pro-democracy protests in the city has been remanded to a psychiatric facility, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday.
Tech giant Apple has reportedly removed the popular podcast app Pocket Casts from its app store in China at the request of the Chinese communist government.
China said the U.S. “will damage its own interests” if it restricts U.S. capital flows through the Hong Kong market, which the U.S. Treasury confirmed was being considered on Thursday, the Chinese Communist Party newspaper Global Times reported on Friday.
Hong Kong’s public broadcaster, RTHK, will soon air a 20-episode news show on China’s decision to pass a law that allows Communist Party agents to arrest those who threaten Beijing, the network revealed on Thursday, after a “government-appointed board of advisers” urged the network to “embrace” the legislation.
Hong Kong Education Secretary Kevin Yeung sent a letter to school administrators on Wednesday instructing them to crack down on pro-democracy protests in advance of the national security law Beijing will soon impose on the island.
Jimmy Lai, owner of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily and longtime pro-democracy activist, told Radio Free Asia (RFA) in an interview published Wednesday that he believed China’s communist takeover of the city would collapse its economy because its main selling point of being free of communist corruption had now disappeared.
Hong Kong’s chief security official, John Lee Ka-chiu, said on Wednesday that a special unit of police will be created to enforce the national security law Beijing is imposing on the island. According to Lee, the new unit will have “intelligence gathering” capabilities and will coordinate with mainland Chinese forces.
Hong Kong police arrested 53 protesters on Tuesday evening in demonstrations attended by hundreds of activists to mark the one-year anniversary of the city’s pro-democracy movement, Reuters reported.
Canada’s former top diplomat to Hong Kong called on his country to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 in response to China’s imposition of a law that allows it to imprison dissidents deemed a threat to “national security.”
Hong Kong activists defied orders from the police and marched on Tuesday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the protest movement.
A senior Chinese official dismissed the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement, which has attracted millions of protesters in the past year, as supporters of “terrorism” who had “gone too far” in remarks on Monday.
Several prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activists said on Monday they have been followed and filmed by mysterious stalkers they believe are Chinese security agents.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) in an open letter this week asked American companies operating in China to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party.
North Korea’s ruling party issued a statement Thursday condemning U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for issuing statements in defense of the human rights of people in China and expressed support for China’s ongoing crackdown on human rights in Hong Kong.
While Drew Brees was facing an avalanche of criticism for saying that NFL anthem protests were a sign of “disrespect” for the flag, Fox News host Laura Ingraham defended Brees and his right to free speech.
BEIJING (AP) – The last British governor of Hong Kong criticized the Chinese government on Friday over proposed national security legislation, calling it part of an “Orwellian” drive to eliminate opposition in violation of the agreement on handing the territory over to Beijing.
The redoubtable former bishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen, said this week that due to the Vatican’s “foolish” appeasement policy toward Communist China, the Holy See cannot be expected to come to the defense of Hong Kong protesters.
Migration Watch UK has criticised Boris Johnson for effectively offering citizenship to three million people in Hong Kong, saying that it “would directly break the government’s 2019 election pledge to reduce overall immigration numbers”.
During a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) urged the Trump administration “to prioritize the admission of persecuted Hong Kongers to the United States through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program” in order to help people
Players of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing video game held virtual vigils to commemorate the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre 31 years after China killed thousands of peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Beijing.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen wrote a Facebook post on Thursday commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. She described June 4 as a day the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thinks it can erase from the calendar.
NBA star LeBron James piled on Drew Brees for his comments against disrespecting the national anthem. Yet James has remained silent as Hong Kong criminalized disrespect for the Chinese national anthem, to the benefit of his benefactors in Beijing.
Thousands of Hong Kong residents flooded city squares throughout the region to observe the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on Thursday, despite pro-China authorities banning assemblies in honor of the event.
Students at the University of Florida refused to say that China poses a threat to the United States in a recent video interview. Most of the students also admitted they had never heard of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, which occured on June 4, 1989.
Disney is one of the corporations and major Hollywood studios giving full-throated support to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. But the company has time and again been impotent on human rights, silent when it was time to confront the Communist government of China.
The Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) passed a law Thursday that could result in up to three years in prison for anyone found guilty of “disrespecting or misusing” the “March of the Volunteers,” the anthem of communist China.
