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US should sanction Western enablers of Hong Kong repression

By Tom Rogan
Published August 30, 2024 4:06pm ET
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US should sanction Western enablers of Hong Kong repression
In this photo released on July 18, 2024, by Xinhua News Agency, members of the Politburo Standing Committee from left, Li Xi, secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC; Cai Qi, secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC; Zhao Leji, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress; Chinese President Xi Jinping; Premier Li Qiang; Wang Huning, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; and Ding Xuexiang, vice premier of the People's Republic of China, attend the third plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China Central Committee held from July 15 to 18 in Beijing. (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via AP)

China is strangling media and political freedom in Hong Kong. The once vibrant international city is now a citadel of Communist Party repression. It’s a place where elementary school students are asked to report one another and from which dissidents are hunted for kidnapping.

This week saw the city take yet another waltz into Communist autocracy. On Thursday, the two senior editors of the now-defunct Stand News outlet were convicted of seditious conspiracy against the Chinese Communist Party.

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