In Hong Kong, some of the biggest news over the past few weeks has been the oath-taking scandal. Two newly elected pro-Hong Kong independence lawmakers, Sixtus Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching, from the Youngspiration party, took their oaths to join Hong Kong’s Legislative Council. But they brought out flags that said Hong Kong is Not China, called Hong Kong a nation, and referred to mainland China using a slur used by the Japanese in World War II.
That did not go over well. Then the controversy escalated when China’s National People’s Congress issued a rare “interpretation” of Hong Kong’s Basic Law that effectively disqualified both elected lawmakers from taking office.
