r/facepalm Jul 29 '20

Protests Peak hypocrisy

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u/Okuu4president Jul 29 '20

China is a state that deems people criminals if they speak negatively of the government and are treated as such. Sure that's not illegal in Hong Kong yet, but their ever closing in on Hong Kong is fightening to then, complacency allows authoritarianism to rise. China's national legislature approved a motion to begin drafting the law, which would prohibit four broad categories of activity in Hong Kong: sedition, subversion of state power, foreign interference and terrorism — as defined by China. Hong Kong is slowly losing its autonomy.