Hong Kong Brain Drain?
HONG KONG — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged Wednesday to overhaul immigration rules to grant almost 3 million Hong Kong residents a pathway to British citizenship, a response to Beijing’s move to impose a far-reaching security law here that many fear will dismantle the city’s political freedoms.
Johnson said the Chinese security law — which will criminalize broadly worded offenses such as sedition, subversion and foreign interference — gives Britain “no choice but to uphold our profound ties of history and friendship with the people of Hong Kong.”
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Do You Remember?
Tiananmen square anniversary: what sparked the protests in China in 1989? Beijing brutally cracked down on pro-democracy demonstrators, killing as many as 10,000 people on 4 June.
“When a government uses tanks to declare war on its people, anything is possible and the people now know it,” wrote John Gittings, The Guardian’s China correspondent. On 5 June, an unidentified young man stood in front of a tank convoy leaving Tiananmen Square, in a final act of defiance.
Chinese authorities continue to view the Tiananmen protests as one of the most sensitive and taboo subjects. “June 4”, as the movement is commonly known as in China, remains largely scrubbed from official history and is censored from school text books and online. Refresh your memory HERE.