Thu, Jul 2 2020

HONG KONG — A museum that commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre is rushing to digitize its archives, afraid its artifacts could be seized. Booksellers are nervously eyeing customers, worried they could be government spies. Writers…

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Britain could do little to “coercively force” China if it tries to block Hongkongers from coming to the UK to take up a government visa pledge, the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has admitted. Boris Johnson has said he will honour a…

Hong Kong police made more than 180 arrests on Wednesday, deploying the water cannon truck and firing rounds of tear gas against pro-democracy protesters. Police also fired pepper balls in Causeway Bay during cat-and-mouse chases with…

After the Chinese legislature unanimously passed the national security law that would curb free speech and protests in Hong Kong, my initial thought was, “Is Hong Kong just like Beijing now?” The first time I felt that Hong Kong was…

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Before the Chinese police hung high-powered surveillance cameras and locked up ethnic minorities by the hundreds of thousands in China's western region of Xinjiang, China's hackers went to work building malware, researchers…