Five Eyes: China Running a ‘Concerted Campaign’ to Silence Critics in Hong Kong

Five Eyes: China Running a ‘Concerted Campaign’ to Silence Critics in Hong Kong
A booth with sign "Free Hong Kong" is set up near Victoria Park where people gather to mourn those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong on June 4, 2020. Kin Cheung/The Associated Press
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The allied Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK, as well as the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) actions in Hong Kong in a rare joint statement published Thursday.

The Five Eyes foreign representatives declared that Beijing was running a “concerted campaign to silence all critical voices” in Hong Kong and that the CCP had breached the legally binding Sino-British Joint Declaration for the third time when it disqualified elected legislators in Hong Kong last week.

Victoria Kelly-Clark
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Victoria Kelly-Clark is an Australian based reporter who focuses on national politics and the geopolitical environment in the Asia-pacific region, the Middle East and Central Asia.
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