Tag: Hong Kong protests

Democratic and Chinese-claimed Taiwan has little experience in dealing with refugees and with worries that China could infiltrate spies posing as activists

More protests planned for coming days, with pro-democracy supporters fearing proposed national security legislation will dramatically stifle freedoms

It is now clear that China is modeling Hong Kong after itself, US secretary of state says

Many shops, bank branches and office buildings closed early, while dozens of people were seen rounded up by riot police and made to sit on a sidewalk

The former British colony enjoys unrestricted internet access, unlike on the mainland where the likes of Google, Facebook and Twitter are blocked

Bullets and repression are not the way to deal with the aspirations of Hong Kong's people for freedom and democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen says

It is essentially declaring directly that 'one country two systems' is null and a failure, academic says

A previous attempt to adopt similar legislation in 2003 was met with a protest that drew around half a million people onto the streets and was eventually shelved

The Chinese-ruled city has so far recorded 1,056 cases, mostly imported, and four deaths

Video footage shows protesters being subdued on the ground, scuffles and people bleeding