#WR: Last freedom shout! @WSJ wrote that “Apple Daily, HongKong’s defiant pro-democracy newspaper that drew the ire of China’s leaders, said it would print its final issue Thursday, ending an era of unfettered reporting critical of Beijing in the city’s mainstream print scene.”
The Wall Street Journal wrote "“The era of free political speech as we have long known it is gone,” said Sharron Fast, a journalism lecturer at the University of Hong Kong, who noted recent moves to censor books, art and movies in the city. “The loss of Apple at this point almost feels like we are at the brink of collapse. And it is natural for this loss to be profoundly felt in the city.”
At this moment, we cannot see that Hong Kong will be the Hong Kong the decades before. It will be only a new "puppet" of Beijing. Of course, without freedom, this is the collapse of the former British colony.
Sources: The Wall Street Journal, my own think tank
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