Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Foreign Digest: China, Russia and Italy


China
            After the passage this week of a new security law for Hong Kong which violates the autonomy and liberty Communist China had promised the United Kingdom when it reverted from British rule in 1997, the U.K. is today extending for five years the eligibility for immigration for three million residents of the city state who are eligible for British passports.  The law punishes dissent.  After protests against it on its first day, Communist Chinese have already begun making arrests.

Russia
            The referendum today in the Russian Federation on constitutional changes that would allow President Vladimir Putin, the tyrannical ex-Soviet intelligence officer, to remain in power for 16 more years, is being voted on.  Elections are not free and fair in Russia.

Italy
           Italian police today seized from shipping containers tons of illegal narcotics made by the Islamic State, the Islamist terrorist organization that had been “Al-Qaeda in Iraq,” made in Syria.

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