Step by Step, Hong Kong’s Freedoms Vanish

Local authorities, backed by Beijing, continue to chisel away at press, critics

Slowly but surely, the bamboo splinters are growing into the body of a prostrate Hong Kong, tied down by the National Security Law and a police force ever-more under Beijing’s direction.

Each bamboo spike may seem small in itself but in combination threaten the life of the city as a genuinely autonomous region governed in accordance with the Basic Law as…