Chinese Regime Issues Blanket Media, Internet Censorship on Hong Kong Protests

In the evening of June 16, thousands of Hong Kongers get together at Admiralty to ask the city government leader, Chief Executive Carrie Lam to withdraw the extradition bill and resign. Gang Yu/The Epoch Times

After nearly two million Hongkongers took to the streets to call for a controversial extradition bill to be shelved, the Chinese regime took measures to censor all related information, while state-run media spun the protests as anti-U.S. demonstrations.

After heavy criticism from netizens, China Daily, an English-language state-run media directed at international audiences, was forced to delete its related Facebook posts.

Hong Kong vs. Mainland

More than 25 percent of the city’s population, dressed in black, flooded the streets on June 16—making it the largest protest in the city’s history.