Saturday 1st February 2020
Dear Reader,
Pop quiz: what killed an estimated 33,800 Americans in 1968-1969? No, it was't the North Vietnamese Army. It was the Hong Kong Flu (Influenza-A H3N2), a pandemic which killed an estimated 1 million people worldwide.
NEW ARTICLE
Carrie Lam
risks international travel ban on HK residents
Once again
Mrs Lam is putting "One Country" ahead of "Two Systems". By keeping a porous
border while imposing an unprecedented lockdown within HK, we risk an escalation
of confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV and a consequent inclusion in the entry bans now
imposed by Singapore and USA which other countries are likely to follow. Mrs
Lam, stand up for Hong Kong. (1-Feb-2020)
RECENTLY ON WEBB-SITE
Getting to 601: How Beijing controls the HK Chief Executive election
Carrie Lam continues to peddle the lie that the Chief Executive Election
Committee is "broadly representative", often unchallenged by foreign media. We
explain exactly how it is rigged, and how with enough political courage, she
could unrig it and introduce democracy through local legislation, without
Beijing's approval. (28-Jan-2020)
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