Hong Kong begins life under a new Chinese national-security law

IF CHINA’S RULERS hoped the new national-security law they have imposed on Hong Kong late on June 30th would immediately cow its critics there into silence, they have been proved wrong. Protests to mark July 1st, the anniversary of the handover of the territory from British to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, defied both the law and a ban this year on what has become an annual event. So the first arrests under the law came almost at once. By the evening hundreds of people had been detained.

China had announced its intention to pass such a law without reference to Hong Kong’s own Legislative Council in May. Billboards hailing the legislation were plastered across Hong Kong even before senior officials in the city had seen it. Officials have stressed that the bill would comply with “important principles of the rule of law” and international human-rights legislation. But it will take precedence should a conflict arise between the new law and existing ones.

Even before the law was enacted it had affected Hong Kong’s internal politics and international relations. On June 30th, Joshua Wong, a leading activist, and his young colleagues from Demosisto, a small pro-democracy party, announced it was disbanding. Mr Wong promised on Facebook to keep up his advocacy work as an individual: “I will continue to defend my home—Hong Kong—until they silence, obliterate me from this piece of land.

The Monkey is Xi.

The idiom in metaphor using chicken and monkeys, has been there thousands of years, comparable to Aesop's Fables.

The thuggish regime CCP see her citizens as producing money tools and maintaining stability tools rather than human beings.

We do not want the Chinese killing any more animals. 🦇🦇🦇

randylee2019 Those senior advisers are part of the problem. They never reflect the real side of Hong Kong but just keep bootlicking. They're the one that selling Hong Kong people's rights and freedom.

Why didnt say something when rioters burnt people alive on street?

That is a very Trump -like comment.

Wow. I hope all the liberals who say they hate America see this. Be glad you have the freedom of speech. If you didn’t they would kill you for expressing your feelings

Today in Hong Kong *that’s a tear gas shotgun which would definitely blow her head off at that range Photo: Jimmy Lam USPhongkong

Hmmm,is that means the so call Hong Konger are chicken and monkeys?

Sounds like something Trump would say in 2021 if re-elected...

The Chinese government sees the people as 'monkeys'? They are NOT a socialist country. I rebuke them and curse them for muddying the waters of truth.

杀鸡儆猴

NBA supports this. 🤔😂🤦🏻‍♂️

Time for violence against tyranny... like the Irish against the British.

babaric cruel 😐

Hijos de puta

Wouldn't that enrage the gorillas?

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