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News Review: Times: Subverting Hong Kong’s Autonomy

Shorn of its linguistic niceties, it lays down that any organization of which Beijing disapproves on security grounds will be proscribed in Hong Kong. That could, for instance, mean that the Falun Gong movement, which the central government has been persecuting remorselessly, could be outlawed in the SAR.

Washington Post: Mr. Jiang’s Bad Idea

CHINA’S COMMUNIST leadership has spent the past few days bombarding the
country’s long-suffering population, and anyone in the outside world who

will listen, with skull-numbing speeches about the supposed
philosophical
breakthrough of President Jiang Zemin.

Sydney Morning Herald: Long Live The Entrepreneurs

China’s roaring industrial economy, its burgeoning consumer class,
and greater individual freedoms of movement, for example, now present an
undeniable veneer of openness. However, dissent continues to be swiftly
crushed as the recent brutal crackdowns on the Falun Gong attest.