The End of Hong Kong

Over the course of April and throughout May, while much of the world’s attention was trained on the coronavirus’s spiraling death toll, hardly a day passed in Hong Kong without news of arrested activists, scuffles among lawmakers, or bombastic proclamations from mainland officials. Long-standing norms were done away with at dizzying speed.

The moves were capped this week when China’s National People’s Congress announced that it would force wide-ranging national-security laws on Hong Kong in response to last year’s prodemocracy protests. In doing so, Beijing circumvented the city’s autonomous legislative process and began dismantling the “one country, two systems” framework under which Hong Kong is governed, setting up what will likely be a fundamental shift in the territory’s freedoms, its laws, and how it is recognized internationally.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/05/china-hong-kong-pandemic-autonomy-law-aggression/611983/?utm_term=2020-05-22T14%2525253A51%2525253A15&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR0hFE4y1eS-Mgs-soaCK993kvLxLqkx4gc-iVDhPEYFxv9mCrTdTluem8Y



While you were distracted, the Communist Chinese are putting their boots on the throats of their mostly defenseless citizens of Hong Kong.

My opinion: They always were defenseless. It's an untenable situation.