Free tickets to Hong Kong? No thanks
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That could be the whole problem, though Lee and his colleagues on the Beijing-appointed legislature are unlikely to acknowledge it. Hong Kong has long been fully integrated with the outside world. What made it special was the protection it enjoyed from the dead hand of communist authorities in the next-door People’s Republic. That began eroding slowly after the 1997 handover, accelerating briskly to a brutal crushing once President Xi Jinping became China’s top autocrat.
Only recently have its draconian COVID restrictions been lifted, following their abrupt abandonment on the mainland in response to pent up public fury. The rest of Beijing’s repressive apparatus remains intact, however: visitors shouldn’t expect anything approaching free speech or a free press. Jimmy Lai, whothe independent-minded Apple Daily was sentenced in December to more than five years in jail, a year after the publication was forcibly closed.
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