Re:HK's Apple Daily raided by 500 officers over national sec...
by jollybean on Thursday June 17, 2021 @10:52PM
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"basic law can be interpreted to suite the needs of how the two systems should be."
There is no independent judiciary in China, the law is whatever the CCP wants it to be.
In this case, they didn't like what some newspaper was doing, so they had it shut down, and put out the PR spin though thought would work best. That's it.
FYI the 'violent protests' were not very violent, and definitely favourable to the loss of freedoms with the current regime.
One option would be to let the citizens of HK make the decision on those things.
There is no independent judiciary in China, the law is whatever the CCP wants it to be.
In this case, they didn't like what some newspaper was doing, so they had it shut down, and put out the PR spin though thought would work best. That's it.
FYI the 'violent protests' were not very violent, and definitely favourable to the loss of freedoms with the current regime.
One option would be to let the citizens of HK make the decision on those things.