Pro-Beijing activist asks China official to clarify security law, ‘soft resistance,’ says Hongkongers too afraid to speak up
A pro-Beijing activist has petitioned a visiting top Chinese official, urging for clarification on “soft resistance” and the “bottom line” of the national security law, and saying that a lack of certainty around what was allowed had left Hongkongers afraid to speak up. Chan Ching-sum planned to deliver her petition outside Beijing’s Hong Kong Liaison Office in Sai Ying Pun at around 10am on Monday. However, she said it had been “suggested” that she do so near the MTR station instead, about an eight-minute walk from the Liaison Office. Reporters were told by police stationed outside the office ...