2021: The Year Democracy Died in Hong Kong: 2021 was the year Communist China smashed the dream of freedom and democracy in Hong Kong, with only modest opposition from the civilized world. The guiding principle of the Basic Law was “one country, two systems” – Hong Kong would have its own legislature, and its people would have freedoms unknown to the subjects of the regime in Beijing. . . . After failing to shut down the protest movement with police brutality, the puppet government in Hong Kong stepped aside and let Beijing impose a brutally totalitarian “national security law” on the island, bypassing its legislature and smashing the core tenet of Basic Law. “Just over a year since the introduction of the national security law, the mainland Chinese and Hong Kong authorities have used the law and related institutions against all opposition, free press, and civil society in Hong Kong,” said British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. As long as foreign money keeps flowing through Hong Kong, as long as Beijing still gets the prestige of hosting the Olympics, Communist oppression will continue. Words can be ignored, just as memories can be erased and statues can be torn down. https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/12/31/2021-the-year-democracy-died-in-hong-kong/ 
