{"id":126,"date":"2003-06-11T07:03:13","date_gmt":"2003-06-11T12:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=126"},"modified":"2003-06-11T07:03:13","modified_gmt":"2003-06-11T12:03:13","slug":"sic_transit_hon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/11\/sic_transit_hon.html","title":{"rendered":"Sic transit<\/i> Hong Kong?"},"content":{"rendered":"

China is pressing forward with new anti-dissent rules in Hong Kong, with little or no objection<\/a> from the US and UK. <\/p>\n

Under Hong Kong’s China-approved constitution, the China-appointed chief executive, tycoon Tung Chee Hwa, together with the rigged pro-China legislature, is about to introduce a set of “antisubversion” laws that would gut the liberties, such as free speech, on which Hong Kong depends. It would become a crime, punishable by time in prison, to disclose “state secrets” or damage Chinese state “security”–with Beijing or its local surrogates deciding, at their own convenience, what that means. This is a raw bid to extend into Hong Kong the same arbitrary dictates of absolute power, the same methods of intimidation backed by brute force, that the Communist Party wields in Beijing.<\/p>\n

Shameful.<\/p>\n

Now, granted, one could argue that playing nice with China is one of the costs (anticipated, or already discussed) for Beijing’s assistance in dealing with North Korea. And, as everyone has been pointing out over the last year, North Korea is a huge threat, a catastrophe waiting to happen, and one that may require even bigger doses of realpolitik<\/i><\/a> to deal with.<\/p>\n

Still, seeing Hong Kong dragged down to the prison-camp level of the rest of China is a damned shame, and will be a source of justifiable criticism of Washington and London for decades to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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