Hong Kong Passes Infamous ‘Article 23’ in Show of Growing Communist Hold

According to SinoInsider, a New York-based risk consultancy that tracks developments in CCP elite politics, the passage of Article 23 despite the existence of the NSL could be a means for current Chinese leader Xi Jinping to further bring Hong Kong under his personal influence, rather than that of his rivals in the communist regime.

Eight Songs that Didn’t Make it Into China’s Lunar New Year Gala

“This is a new trend, the attractiveness of anti-communist creative content, which can be monetized,” Liga said. “It shows that people who are dissatisfied with the Chinese Communist Party are now a political force that cannot be ignored, despite not having the right to vote.”

With Rights Deprived, It Is the End of Hong Kong as We Knew It

The old Hong Kong core values are gradually and quickly being lost, twisted, and redefined: and that relates to free speech, free press, and freedom of demonstration in general. People who have lived in Hong Kong before and after the NSL imposition will clearly see the painful differences.

Amid COVID-19 Surge, China Reopens Borders After 3 Years

The United States and more than a dozen other countries currently require a negative COVID-19 test result for visitors from China. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that the measure is meant to impede the spread of COVID-19 on U.S. soil, given “the lack of adequate and transparent epidemiological and viral genomic sequence data.”