The 'Double Ducks' art installation in Hong Kong comes 10 years after the artist's original duck appeared in the harbour. But having been transformed by Covid and a national security law, the Chinese territory is not the same place it was a decade ago.
last month as police came out in force. Victoria Park, where the annual vigils had been held, was occupied instead by a carnival organized by pro-Beijing groups, and for the second year in a row, the local Catholic diocese did not hold a memorial Mass.
In the weeks leading up to the anniversary, Hong Kong journalists discovered that dozens of books and documentaries on politically sensitive topics, including the Tiananmen crackdown, had beenChief Executive Lee said libraries had a responsibility to remove books that might violate the law or spread “messages that are not in the interest of Hong Kong,” and that if people really wanted to read them they could buy them in stores.
Officials in Hong Kong, which has never had its own national anthem, have reacted angrily in recent months after “Glory to Hong Kong” was mistakenly played at multiple international sporting events instead of the Chinese national anthem, “March of the Volunteers.” They also pressured Google unsuccessfully to alter its search results for Hong Kong’s national anthem so that “Glory to Hong Kong” doesn’t rank so highly.
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