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China Enacts Security Law, Asserting Control Over Hong Kong
Beijing's top legislative body has unanimously passed a sweeping national security law for Hong Kong, a controversial move that could effectively criminalize most dissent in the city and risks widening the rift between China and western countries who have criticized the law.
The news was first reported by local Hong Kong media: cable televsion station NOWNews; the city's public broadcaster; and a slew of newspapers, including Wei Wen Po and Ta Kung Pao, two pro-Beijing outlets which often signal official Chinese policy.
Hours later, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported President Xi Jinping had already signed the measure into law. Xinhua said it will be incorporated into Hong Kong's Basic Law, the city's mini-constitution, and become effective Wednesday, the anniversary of Hong Kong's 1997 handover from British to Chinese Rule.
Hong Kong security law: Anger as China's Xi signs legislation
One key pro-democracy group said it was now ceasing all operations. Demosisto announced the move on Facebook after Joshua Wong, one of Hong Kong's most prominent activists, said he was leaving the group, which he had spearheaded.
[...] Demosisto said several members had asked to be delisted and it had decided to "dissolve and stop all meetings". It said that the fight against "totalitarian oppression" would have to continue in a "more flexible manner". Joshua Wong said the law marked "the end of Hong Kong that the world knew before".
Also at NYT, Reuters, and Hong Kong Free Press.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @12:39PM (3 children)
At least Chinese people never enslaved Black citizens. At least Chinamen never rode around wearing sheets and hooded masks to terrorize their Black countrymen. At least China's security forces never oppressed their Black people with distribution of crack cocaine, HIV and handguns. China is heaven for Black people.
黑人的命也是命
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @01:43PM (1 child)
You didn't see what China did to black people during the Corona Virus I take it.
First search result. [latimes.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @03:58PM
Whataboutism aside... To be fair, just because members of the 50 Cent Army are being paid to astroturf public opinion does not mean that they are unaware of the reality behind their frequently misleading and factually incorrect assertions.
五毛党
(Score: 4, Touché) by Thexalon on Wednesday July 01 2020, @05:18PM
Ah yes, the good old And you are lynching Negroes [wikipedia.org] defense. I mean, if you want to get into American crimes, there's the genocide of Native Americans too.
Which are all, of course, irrelevant to whether China is an exemplar of human rights.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.