The European Union responded late
last week to Communist China for its violation of its promises to the United
Kingdom that it would maintain Hong Kong’s autonomy and liberty when the former
British colony reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. The EU imposed economic sanctions on items
that could be used for repression; established new procedures for asylum,
immigration, visas and residence for Hong Kong
residents; and established engagements to defend the city state’s legislature from further encroachment on its Hong Kong’s self-rule.
There have
been protests in the Russian Far East after the firing by Russian tyrant
Vladimir Putin of a governor who was not from the ruling party. Meanwhile, a historian has been sentenced to
prison in retaliation for his research debunks Putin’s false propaganda of on
Russia’s role in the Second World War, in which he tries to minimize the Soviet
alliance with Nazi Germany and Soviet complicity in the war and to exaggerate
the Soviet contribution over that of the Western Allies. Dissent is not tolerated by Putin.
There was a
mass protest late last week in response to further violations of the freedom of
the press by the nationalist authoritarian government. There are few remaining independent news
outlets remaining.
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