The new “Safeguarding National Security Law” signed into law today, here in Hong Kong. Done as a requirement under Article 23 of our Basic Law.
So, after 27 years, it’s done in a jiffy.
And the South China Morning Post is going full-on pro Beijing. As in spruiking for it.
The SCMP has pussy-footed around its potential downsides. It’s had not a single letter to the editor about the it, not even my elegant epistle (when they’ve published most all of my previous contributions). Not a single one. Are we supposed to think that people are so sanguine that no-one wrote in about it?
I’m not going to tone down any of my comments. Even if there’s concerns that mocking the government, like calling the bureaucrats above, the apparatchiks, a bunch of “appalling old wax works” could be seen as mocking the government. And that’s an offence punishable by jail time….
