HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - Last summer Hong Kong's protesters called for a revolution as they occupied the city's international airport, marched in the millions and mocked Chinese President Xi Jinping as a Game of Thrones villain.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HONG KONG - Last summer Hong Kong's protesters called for a revolution as they occupied the city's international airport, marched in the millions and mocked Chinese President Xi Jinping as a Game of Thrones villain.A sweeping national security law imposed by China in June and Covid-19 restrictions have rendered the pro-democracy movement's tactics illegal, from public gatherings to certain online comments.
"The protest movement has been reduced quite a lot," Lai told Bloomberg Television in an interview last week, after he was released on bail. Lai's trial in a separate case of alleged criminal intimidation against an Oriental Daily reporter in 2017 was scheduled to begin Wednesday morning, but was postponed due to Typhoon Higos.One pro-democracy supporter, a 26-year-old professional who only wanted to be identified by her surname Tsui, said that protesters were concentrating on spending money at so-called yellow businesses that support the pro-democracy movement.
Store owners didn't need to risk censure by putting up slogans, he said, but could do something subtle - such as posting pictures online of themselves buying the Apple Daily newspaper.Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has defended the law barring subversion, secession, terrorism and foreign collusion as a necessary tool to quell the sometimes-violent unrest that paralysed the city last year and pushed the economy into a recession.
In the wake of the law's enactment, the UK, Australia and Taiwan all proposed various ways to welcome more Hong Kong residents. In addition to Lai, prominent activist Agnes Chow of the now-defunct Demosisto party has been arrested.
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