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In May, China announced that the NPCSC, China's rubber-stamp legislative body, would directly draft a national security law for Hong Kong and skip the local legislation procedures. [611] Political analysts believed that Beijing's action would mark the end of the " one country, two systems " principle and Hong Kong's autonomy as promised in the ...
The 2021 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was a general election held on 19 December 2021 for the 7th Legislative Council of Hong Kong. [ 2] Under the drastic Beijing-imposed electoral overhaul, the total number of seats was increased from 70 to 90 seats, with the directly elected geographical constituencies (GCs) reduced from 35 to 20 ...
Hong Kong–Mainland China conflict. 16 June 2019 demonstration, at Justice Drive, capturing Queensway, Admiralty during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. Relations between people in Hong Kong and mainland China have been relatively tense since the early 2000s. Various factors have contributed, including different interpretations of the "one ...
YouTube said it would comply with an order blocking access to videos of Hong Kong’s protest anthem inside the region. The decision comes after an appeals court banned the protest song “Glory ...
Mon, Jul 5, 2021 · 1 min read. d3sign via Getty Images. Tech companies are already at odds with the Hong Kong government, and that tension appears to be on the rise. The Wall Street Journal has ...
Hong Kong, historically a financial hub, can potentially be a laboratory for China’s policymakers to test out blockchain’s potential with some buffer for the nation’s one billion netizens.
The month of June 2020 was the first anniversary of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. The decision taken by the National People's Congress on national security legislation and the alleviation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong led to a new series of protests and international responses. On 30 June, the Standing Committee of the National ...
Scores of flights in Hong Kong were canceled Sunday as Tropical Storm Koinu neared the southern Chinese city after leaving one dead and over 300 injured in Taiwan. Koinu was expected to skirt ...