The Last Bit of Hong Kong We Know Is Also Running out of Time

Commentary
In this day and age, everyone is opinionated. In politics, it is the great divide. In mainland China, netizens have long had a far outcry for more freedom, transparency, and democracy; but under paramount leader Xi, free speech is not a given. For Hongkongers, whether they still live in the once-famed international city or overseas, the extreme makeover over the last few years has been more than surreal. The month of June has been a month of “remembrance,” both from a social movement and political standpoint.
This June, we just commemorated the 34th year of the Tiananmen massacre—officially, outside of China and Hong Kong—a more democratic China still does not exist. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Xi Jinping’s administration means more concentration of power. With Xi and the politburo having a “wolf warrior” mentality towards Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the rest of the world, and with the “balloon incidence” of Chinese spy balloons flying over Canadian and U.S. soil, the situation between China and the rest of the world is tense. Xi’s claims of a “no limits partnership” with Russia’s Vladimir Putin are worrisome. President Joe Biden of the U.S. recently called Xi Jinping a dictator at a fundraising event, a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to China….