The legislation’s proponents insist that current legal loopholes — Hong Kong does not have extradition treaties with China or Taiwan — need to be closed. “This is the last fight for Hong Kong,” Martin Lee, a pioneering democracy activist, told the Wall Street Journal. Instead, both China and the local government have clamped down on dissidents and the right to dissent in Hong Kong. It’s obvious that our city’s system is no longer working in the people’s favor.”In Chinese President Xi Jinping, Hong Kong faces an unmoved, unrelenting overlord. “Maybe we [Hong Kong] will die, but we will not die in silence,” he told The Post.

Source: Washington Post June 12, 2019 04:52 UTC