Hong Kong Jails Benny Tai for 10 Years in Longest Security Law Sentence

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68 points·JumpCrisscross··9 comments

The supposed "crime" dozens of people were jailed for: Voting among themselves which candidate should run to represent the alliance. A caucus, basically.

https://www.barrons.com/news/benny-tai-from-hong-kong-s-elit...

Back when I was still there in 1997, I didn't expect the PRC to break the treaty-promises quite so quickly and blatantly. (Many factors have changed since then.)

The truly sad/crazy part is that most people today still don't expect China to break promises quite so quickly and blatantly.

Oh well.

Which promises do you mean? And which people?

The promise to implement long-announced and in part contractually guaranteed democratic instruments.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57873484-freedom

Sorry, I should have clarified my question further. They already broke their promises on Hong Kong. So I was asking what the other promises people think they won’t break?

Like are we talking Taiwan? Or something in mainland China?

Hence: which promises and which people?

With regard to HK - agree they broke their promises, but it’s not like it wasn’t highly predictable a leader like Xi would do this, the shocking part was the speed, not the action.

Apologies for upsetting people by being too vague.

I don't know, most people in Hong Kong, don't expect China to hold any promises nowadays... Outside of people who live in mainland China, I don't think nowadays many people trust China with promises.

who cares

All of us outside the PRC bubble do.

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