Hong Kong set to be next Tibet, predicts exiled leader
Lobsang Sangay is critical of the security law which China enacted last week for the semi-autonomous city of Hong Kong, which affects 7.5 million people. – AFP pic, July 9, 2020.
HONG Kong is heading towards the same fate as Tibet after China imposed a new security law that criminalises calls for independence, the leader of the exiled Tibetan government has told AFP. Lobsang Sangay said China was deceiving Hong Kong the same way it cheated Tibetan people in 1951 when it promised autonomy.
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