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For fans of irony: according to reports, one of the books that allegedly endanger national security is Let Only Red Flowers Bloom by Emily Feng. (English edition published by hotbed of subversion Penguin.) From the Wall Street Journal… Hong Kong … Continue reading →

Bookstores Have a Nice Stay and Greenfield are raided by NatSec police… In a statement published on Wednesday night, the government said the five people were suspected of “doing with a seditious intention an act or acts that had a … Continue reading →

At what point do the authorities decide Hong Kong has sufficient NatSec legislation? It seems there isn’t one… The vice president of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies said on Tuesday that Hong Kong should keep improving … Continue reading →

Global Times on a recent academic gathering at which ‘experts’ said that China has sovereignty over the Batanes Islands – Philippine territory south of Taiwan. A Taipei Times op-ed anticipates that Beijing might start to claim the islands… The symposium … Continue reading →

What would the UK’s Count Binface do if he were in Hong Kong? OK, he would possibly be in prison for subverting state power, inciting hatred of the government, or colluding with foreign powers (he’s from another planet, after all). … Continue reading →

Pro-Beijing forces established significant influence at grass-roots level in Macau back in the 1960s, so the city never had a civil society and political activism on Hong Kong’s scale. But there were some pan-dems and workers’ rights groups. No more. … Continue reading →

RTHK is producing a new show in collaboration with Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po. A sample… Chief Executive John Lee has said Hong Kong role [sic] in the nation’s 15th Five-Year Plan has been “upgraded” – in what … Continue reading →

After being imprisoned for participating in the pan-dems’ 2020 primary elections, Joshua Wong now faces a second NatSec conviction for ‘collusion with foreign powers’… He is accused of conspiring with self-exiled activist Nathan Law and “other persons unknown” between July … Continue reading →

An RTHK story for those nostalgic for the old Hong Kong… Police on Monday said they have arrested 125 people over suspicions that a triad syndicate used intimidation, arson, criminal damage and other violent means to corner the lunch box … Continue reading →

Ryan Ho Kilpatrick on ‘Sinicization’, with reference to Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt and Hong Kong… …to treat Sinicization, in Communist Party parlance, as synonymous with Hanification, is to miss out on a crucial point. That is that, according to influential … Continue reading →