National Security Act Outlines HK Stranglehold

One of Asia’s great cities will now be just another town on the Pearl River Delta

The imposition late June 30 by Beijing of a National Security Law on Hong Kong has destroyed the key elements of the One Country Two Systems principle which had ruled the territory since 1997 and which were supposed to survive till 2047.

The law was greeted in sullen silence by the majority, who are known to oppose it, and by many thousands of demonstrat…