Commentary Beijing’s national security law has turned Hong Kong into a place of terror, which reminds me of a modern version of the Oscar award-winning film “The Killing Fields.” I was just a teenager when I first watched this British biographical drama in the mid-1980s. It was difficult to fathom what “the fall of a country” would mean for Cambodia under the communist dictator Pol Pot’s reign of terror in the 1970s. As I revisited the movie recently, I gained a new perspective—it warned me of the worst-case scenario of how Hong Kong could end up if Beijing took total control of the city. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the puppet Hong Kong government officials won’t be ashamed to destroy the core values of the once famed global financial hub—its freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of expression, and the rule of law—in order to silence all opposition voices, …
Will Hong Kong Turn Into a Modern Version of ‘The Killing Fields’?
September 4, 2021
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