Hong Kong Holds First ‘Elections’ After Banning Pro-Democracy Candidates
Residents went to the polls on Sunday in Hong Kong’s first district council elections since Beijing banned pro-democracy candidates.
Residents went to the polls on Sunday in Hong Kong’s first district council elections since Beijing banned pro-democracy candidates.
Hong Kong’s Beijing-controlled chief executive John Lee on Thursday insisted his government should identify books with “bad ideologies” – such as those which tell the truth about the Tiananmen Square massacre – and remove them from public libraries.
John Lee, the Beijing-controlled chief executive of Hong Kong, announced on Tuesday that Hong Kong’s mandate to wear masks both inside and outdoors will be dropped on Wednesday, March 1. The mandate was imposed in July 2020, making it one of the world’s longest-lasting and strictest coronavirus mandates.
Hong Kong chief executive John Lee, the hardline pro-Beijing former security chief who took over from the reviled Carrie Lam in July, devoted much of his three-hour maiden policy address on Wednesday to swooning over the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on democracy.
Hong Kong chief executive John Lee said on Tuesday that unvaccinated Chinese visitors are being granted 180-day “vaccine passes” and exempted from the city’s expansive vaccine mandate because China supposedly has very low rates of coronavirus transmission.
Former police officer and ardent Communist Party loyalist John Lee became the chief executive of Hong Kong on Friday, the 25th anniversary of China’s takeover of the once-British city, with a mandate from Beijing to ensure that pro-democracy protests never return.
Condemnations poured in from around the world on Wednesday as Hong Kong’s newly “elected” chief executive John Lee invoked China’s authoritarian “national security law” to arrest 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen and two other prominent opposition figures.
China’s communist regime cemented its stranglehold over Hong Kong on Sunday with an election to replace Chief Executive Carrie Lam that featured one candidate, John Lee, who allegedly received over 99 percent of the vote.
John Lee, the North Las Vegas, Nevada, mayor and Republican gubernatorial candidate, said on Breitbart News Saturday that governors can serve as a check to the President Joe Biden administration.
Gov. Steve Sisolak’s (D) coronavirus lockdown policies are destroying Nevada’s economy, John Lee, the North Las Vegas, Nevada, mayor and Republican gubernatorial candidate, told Breitbart News Saturday.
President Biden’s unhinged tax plan would crush Nevada’s economic recovery, and it is shameful that Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) refuses to take a stand and fight this absolutely unsustainable and harmful liberal policy proposal.
North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee said Tuesday that he is switching out of the Democrat Party and becoming a Republican due to what he says is the Democrats’ turn toward socialism.
Lockdown measures imposed by governments to tackle coronavirus may be excessive and based on false assumptions, writes James Delingpole.
Republican John Lee defeated Democrat Loraine Lundquist on Tuesday in a special election for a vacant northwest San Fernando Valley seat on the Los Angeles City Council in which the Democrat backed L.A.’s version of the “Green New Deal.”