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Beijing Comes for Hong Kong’s Elite

And their friends

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Oct 26, 2021
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As a cat plays with a mouse, so Beijing is playing with its former friends, the Hong Kong elite, and its bureaucrat handmaidens. Since the imposition of the National Security Law on Hong Kong in mid-2020, almost all visible opposition to the local administration let alone to Beijing has been wiped out.

Guided by a not-so-invisible hand from the north, th…

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