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A new national-security bill to intimidate Hong Kong

The Economist 

A SENIOR CHINESE official called it a “birthday gift” for Hong Kong. It was a chilling choice of words for the biggest blow to the territory’s freedoms since Britain handed it back to China in 1997. Close to midnight on June 30th, on the eve of official celebrations of the handover’s anniversary, China imposed a draconian national-security bill on Hong Kong. It gives the government in Beijing sweeping power to crush dissent in the territory using its own secret police and even its own courts.

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The West cannot force China to read its interests differently

The Economist 

IN RECENT DAYS, as China prepared to turn Hong Kong into a cowed simulacrum of a world city—a shiny stage-set of modernity, run from the shadows by the mainland’s hard men—Chaguan asked Western envoys in Beijing how their countries might respond. Several chose to hear and answer a different question, namely, how might their government make China change course?

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India crosses nine million COVID-19 tests

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

India has crossed the nine-million mark in conducting COVID-19 tests, with 90,56,173 samples having been examined till July 1, officials said on Thursday.

Light Sentence For Kyrgyz Domestic Abuser Irks Activists

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 

A man in Kyrgyzstan's southern region of Jalal-Abad has been freed from custody despite being found guilty of severely beating and torturing his wife in a case that became widely known after a video showing the beating went viral last month.

Brace for an Autumn of Discontent

The Wall Street Journal 

Investors need to recalibrate their expectations of what the economy will look like through the end of the year.





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