Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers resign en masse as Beijing moves to quash opposition

Troublemakers got to go!

Good bye, Hong Kong. It was fun while it lasted.

Get out while you still can. Leave behind a bunch of depreciating fixed assets.

"China denies encroaching on Hong Kong's freedoms"

Only China believes this.

Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and the Philippines stand to benefit, as global corporations look for locations to relocate their Asia-Pacific Regional offices. Each have many of the qualities that Hong Kong had.

Unreasonable evidence disqualified pro-democracy lawmakers as members of parliament because the corrupt regime was afraid of disclosing their truth, preventing them from plundering the coffers of Hong Kong. The Democrats in parliament will still be quiet and disappear,

I urge the Japanese government to offer assylum status to Hong Kong citizens under threat (though some of their passports have already been seized/revoked, blocking their departure).

The repression goes on, and will speed up now while the USA is internally distracted. CCP calculation is they can get away with it and the new administration will be less likely to publicly call them out. Diplomatic protests just go straight in to the bin.

The U.S.A. and the U.K. should just take her back.

I used to love visiting Hong Kong. But I will never go there again. China, what a disgusting country.

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I used to love visiting Hong Kong. But I will never go there again. China, what a disgusting country.

What a sad person you are. I can tell you don't have friends or relatives to visit in HK.

But yes, HK is heading on a slippery slope towards a Trumpian America where politicians can be fired on a whim just because they don't obey the commands of a dictator, or refuse to get officers to teargas their own citizens.

Shortly after the disqualifications, China's representative office in the city said Hong Kong had to be ruled by loyalists.

Yeah, loyal to Hong Kong and it’s people!

This just makes me distrust and dislike the CCP all the more. They truly are a bunch of small scared losers, terrifed at what would happen to themselves if the people had the freedom to choose.

Carrie Lam is the largest danger to Hong Kong, then Beijing, not these good people trying to represent the people who actually voted them into office.

I understand the people of Hong Kong want their freedoms, but it’s just not going to happen. They should get out while the gettin’s good because no outside countries will help them. Then next on China’s agenda will be Taiwan.

Is anyone surprised?

Just another example of Hong Kong's eroding freedoms that continue to pile up each day. Last week they introduced an anonymous hotline to report anyone violating the National Security Law. Snitch on your neighbor and get 10 points towards your social credit score!

I took an offer from my company to relocate back to Tokyo and will be leaving Hong Kong this week. I have been bummed out all week to leave this amazing one of a kind city, but the writing has been on the wall for months now to get out.

Pro-democracy is the new opiate of the people and the CCP is the cure. The world grows darker...

Wow, it's 2047 already? I must have been asleep for 27 years.

(The handover agreement stated explicitly that the socialist system of the Peoples Republic of China would not be practiced in Hong Kong and the capitalist system and way of life would not change until 2047.)

Didn't even make it half way until the lying liars broke the agreement.

China took a lesson from Donald Trump that you can simply ignore or back out of signed treaties and agreements.

The disqualification came after the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, which held meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday, passed a resolution stating that those who support the city’s independence or refuse to acknowledge China’s sovereignty over the city, as well as commit acts that threaten national security or ask external forces to interfere in the city’s affairs should be disqualified, according to the state-owned Xinhua News Agency.

https://worldabcnews.com/hong-kong-ousts-4-pro-democracy-legislators-amid-national-security-crackdown/