China’s Ministry of State Security issued new regulations on June 6 to reward citizens for reporting so-called “acts endangering national security” to the authorities. The pro-Beijing Hong Kong government simultaneously rolled out a “Counter-Terrorism Reporting Hotline” and encouraged Hongkongers to “provide clues on terrorism-related crimes.”
The cash reward for snitchers in Hong Kong can be as high as HK$800,000. Analysts believe that the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is resorting to methods of social control it used in communist dictator Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution to divide Hong Kong society.
