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Beijing Shows its Contempt for its Hong Kong Commitments

Local government falls in line

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John Berthelsen
Apr 17, 2021
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If ever there was a demonstration of the Chinese government’s utter contempt for keeping its word, it is its arrest and prosecution of Martin Lee Chu-ming, the 82-year-old who was a fundamental architect of Hong Kong’s Basic Law designed – vainly – to guarantee that the former British crown colony would remain free of Beijing’s grip for 50 years.

Lee was…

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