A milestone marred by broken promises

2022.06.29

Hong Kongers mark 25 years of Chinese rule on July 1 with little to celebrate and no way to safely complain, as the Chinese Communist Party's promises that the territory could run its own affairs under "one country, two systems," with the city's freedoms preserved for at least 50 years, have all been broken. Just 25 years after the 1997 handover, Hong Kong has plummeted in global press freedom rankings, filled jails with peaceful dissenters, censored school textbooks, and taken other steps that have made the former British colony look more like the Communist mainland.

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Yiu Chan
Jun 30, 2022 05:25 PM

Truly, Chinese Communist Party lie not only to the Hong Kongers but also the World. Now remove his face mask and Xi's ambition is to rule the world after knock down rule-based order and USA.