The rout of civil society goes on. The grim — predictable, predicted — outcome of riots and “demanding” independence.
I wonder how many such groups have closed or been shut down since the National Security Law came into effect on 1 July 2020 . I’ve posted many. It must be dozens. With hundreds, maybe thousands, of incarcerations. A city cannot be a “World City” — as we’ve claimed to be for decades — without a vibrant civil society. The best we can hope for, I guess, is to be a special city within China. Thriving economically perhaps, and with at least a good rump of our freedoms still intact — freedoms that still differentiate us from the dear motherland. But no longer accepting dissent. What about our “sissy boys” one wonders. (娘炮 niang pao). What about our hosting of the Gay Games next year?
