Potus News China Just Passed The Hong Kong Security Law What Happens Now

How Hong Kong Is Trying to Stamp Out Sparks of Unrest After Deadly Fire

After the city’s deadliest fire in decades, Hong Kong’s government, wary of sparks of unrest, has employed a heavy-handed crackdown in the name of national security. Read More

China moves to enact security law in an effort to quell independence protests in Hong Kong

HONG KONG — China has officially ratified a plan to write a national security law for Hong Kong, exerting Beijing's broader, new control over the semi-autonomous territory in a bid to prevent a return ... Read More

What to know about Hong Kong's legislative election after a fire raised governance concerns

Sunday's vote to elect new lawmakers to Hong Kong's 90-member Legislative Council comes just 11 days after a massive fire engulfed seven towers in a high-rise apartment complex, killing at least 159 ... Read More

A Devastating Fire Has Fueled a National Security Crackdown in Hong Kong

The authorities quickly arrested critics demanding accountability, signaling an expansive use of the security law to silence dissent over nonpolitical tragedies. Read More

"Authoritarians in the Academy": The National Security Law and the Shuttering of Academic Freedom in Hong Kong

Timing is everything. As I explain in my book Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech, the overlap in 2020 of the ... Read More

Hong Kong wraps up pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai's security trial

HONG KONG, Aug 28 (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court said it will deliver its verdict in media tycoon Jimmy Lai's national security trial at a later date, after closing submissions concluded on Thursday, ... Read More

Overseas Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law denied entry to Singapore

BEIJING — An activist wanted by the Hong Kong government said he was denied entry to Singapore over the weekend for what he presumes were political reasons. Nathan Law, who fled Hong Kong in 2020 and ... Read More

Revised arbitration law ‘very good news’ for Hong Kong

Hong Kong's sole delegate to the nation's top legislative body says law allows city groups to conduct business in mainland free-trade zones Hong Kong will be able to contribute more to dispute ... Read More

Overseas bounties, patriotic education and suppression: how the national security law is changing Hong Kong

Ka Hang Wong does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ... Read More

Trump pressed China's Xi to release jailed Hong Kong media tycoon, sources say

HONG KONG/WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump appealed directly to China's Xi Jinping to free jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai when the two leaders met in South Korea last ... Read More

Pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai's national security trial in Hong Kong wrapping up

A Hong Kong court heard final arguments Monday in the landmark national security trial of former pro-democracy newspaper founder Jimmy Lai, who could be sentenced to up to life in prison if he is ... Read More