Hong Kong’s oldest and largest pro-democracy political party is moving to disband as Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on the city leaves even moderate opposition groups with no room to operate.

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    Yes, Chinese people deserve freedom to express their political view. And they can do such in the democratic centralism state. Research by Western institutes (in the US for example) shows that the 95% of the people are satisfied with the government

    If you want to learn more about China and unlearn a few misconceptions and propaganda we’ve all been subjected to, this wiki sums up a lot a things: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/People’s_Republic_of_China

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      3 days ago

      Except the organization in question says that they are shutting down because they can’t. 95% of ppl from Hong Kong don’t want $emocratic politics?