HK 'freedom' smearers double down

Whenever the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region authorities make moves to plug any legal and institutional loopholes, its remedial efforts are smeared by those in the SAR hoping to exploit them, as well as their foreign backers, as attacks on "freedom".

The latest example is the smearing of the HKSAR government's proposed package of legislation to update or create new laws to prohibit treason, sabotage, sedition, the theft of State secrets and espionage. An editorial The Washington Post published on Sunday, which accused the HKSAR government of doubling down on repression after it tabled the draft national security bill, being a case in point.

But as the open letter the spokesperson for the Commissioner's Office of the Foreign Ministry of China in the HKSAR addressed to the Editorial Board of The Washington Post on Tuesday said, it is the "ignorance and double standard on Hong Kong" The Washington Post has displayed in the editorial, rather than its well-pretended care for the SAR, that impress readers.