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31 August 2021updated 06 Sep 2021 11:38am

One year on from China’s national security crackdown, Hong Kong is a changed place

The legislation has amounted to a full-spectrum assault by China on the city’s vibrant civil society.

By Louisa Lim

Earlier this month, which marks the second anniversary of a series of protest marches attended by millions of people, Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper printed a front page with a picture of a black-clad protestor and a fill-in-the blank caption, stating: “I will stay in Hong Kong and continue to…”

Within two weeks, the paper itself was gone.

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