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  1. why are residents in Hong kong losing their freedoms by liam m morgan T and meghan C.
  2. What is Hong Kong?
  3. Well,
  4. Hong Kong is a special administrative district on the coast of South Eastern China.
  5. Hong Kong was colonized by the British back in 1841.
  6. But China and Great Britain made a deal that
  7. after 99 years of being under British rule,
  8. China could have Hong Kong back China allowed Hong
  9. Kong 50 years to operate separately from China.
  10. That includes governing themselves, having free press and making their laws,
  11. but china did not keep their promise.
  12. Mhm
  13. This is a map of Hong kong.
  14. This is Hong kong's flag
  15. Protest. A new security law was introduced in Hong Kong in June 2020.
  16. This law would crack down on daily life in Hong kong.
  17. People are not happy about this and are taking to the streets in protest
  18. because citizens don't have much freedom and pulls this
  19. isn't the only ways their voices can be heard.
  20. These protests are called the umbrella movement.
  21. In one protest,
  22. hundreds of protesters gathered around the central liaison office,
  23. china's main arm in Hong kong and as black ink on the chinese national emblem.
  24. So far, the police have arrested around 10,000 people
  25. data protests in the last 20 months,
  26. streets are becoming exceedingly more dangerous
  27. as places rubber bullets and tear gas as the main buttons
  28. here is a timeline on the major events in Hong kong's protests?
  29. Mhm.
  30. How are authorities reacting after china made it clear to
  31. Hong kong that they were going to attempt to restore Hong
  32. kong as a part of china authorities tried to use the
  33. national security law to get rid of the political oppression.
  34. But when this issue started to become a lot more serious government,
  35. authorities from different countries such as the USA decided to step in.
  36. Former President donald trump created sanctions against chinese officials
  37. saying that they were undermining Hong kong's autonomy.
  38. The UK said it will allow three million people
  39. to settle in their country and apply for citizenship.
  40. The european union limited exports to china.
  41. More recently,
  42. joe biden expressed his concern for Hong kong's freedoms and stated that
  43. he was going to press for the freedom of Hong kong citizens.
  44. What is china doing?
  45. Hong kong is one of Asia's most successful financial hubs doing to be a
  46. british do it due to being a british colony for over 150 years,
  47. Hong kong and mainland china operated on separate systems.
  48. So Hong kong's economy became far more developed than the rest of china.
  49. When the UK was planning on giving Hong Kong back to China,
  50. they made an agreement that Hong Kong would be able to act separately for
  51. 50 years due to the fact that Hong Kong is a strong economics.
  52. This is may China want to end the 50-year agreement
  53. early so they would become a more powerful nation.
  54. Beijing recently has been cracking down on Hong kong's lawmaking process
  55. due to this. Many citizens,
  56. I want to leave Hong kong? Because china is taking away their freedoms,
  57. Hong kong's political system,
  58. Hong kong has its own administration has had freedom to operate separately.
  59. The chief executive in Hong kong is Carrie Lam.
  60. Carrie Lam is the head of the government in
  61. Hong kong and the executive branch in Hong kong,
  62. even though the citizens can elect their chief executive,
  63. it doesn't mean it's always completely citizens choice
  64. Candidates for chief executives are selected by Beijing.
  65. So aren't fully what people want.
  66. The legislative branch of Hong Kong's government has 70 seats.
  67. Regular Hong Kong citizens vote for 35 of these seats.
  68. Other citizens that own large businesses vote for the other seats.
  69. People are unhappy that they don't get a huge day in the elections,
  70. which is one of the reasons there are so many protests
  71. and this is a vote chart of Hong kong election election process,
  72. Hong kong's press. How is Hong kong's press handling all of this.
  73. Lots of independent news outlets have been shutting down.
  74. A similarity between these outlets is that
  75. they are all publishing articles about government policies
  76. in Hong kong's bill of rights.
  77. They do have freedom of press,
  78. but this freedom has been declining ever since China has started to
  79. take away Hong kong's freedoms.
  80. A law was passed 18 months ago,
  81. which says what can and can't be published
  82. in Hong Kong without being against the law.
  83. Some of the news outlets that have been shutting down consists of Apple News
  84. and Stand News
  85. Citizens Daily recently announced that they would be closing shortly.
  86. Police are even reading news outlets such as Apple Daily.
  87. So far, 12 journalists and senior executives have been arrested for the content.
  88. They were publishing
  89. about 50% of the journalists in Hong Kong say that they can't leave the city
  90. and here's a picture from the Apple Daily raid.
  91. Thank you for listening to our presentation of Hong kong.