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Legislature Council opposition caucus members have all either been ousted, or resigned in protest. Other journalists and political activists seen to be opposing Chinese government policies, have been arrested and given prison sentences, including young pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam. Activists such the publisher of the Apple Daily newspaper and Next Digital, was arrested along with senior staff, and their offices searched. Foreign visitors also need to be more careful about what they say, or have in their possession, relating to the democracy protests or other opinions or political ideas contrary to the official Chinese Communist Party line.Īlmost immediately after the repressive laws were introduced, public libraries began to remove books written by dissidents from their shelves, and the Great Firewall of China, by which people's access to the internet is controlled, descended on Hong Kong. However, the national security law imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing, on July 1, 2020, is making people afraid for their future, and many may leave if they can. Today, with a large foreign working population and an 'East meets West' way of life, Hong Kong's people have had a unique society that borrows from both worlds.įormerly with a degree of political and legal autonomy under the 'one country, two systems' policy, this city ranked as the third most important international financial center after New York and London, with it's own currency, one of the highest per capita income levels, and a generally high level of civil liberties.
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When established as a British colony in 1842, the area was just a collection of small fishing villages around a magnificent harbor. Two decades since the change in sovereignty, this small enclave of seven million people had, until recently, remained a world apart from the rest of China. In the latest announcement from the government spas are allowed to open starting February 18, 2021.
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