What horrors await Hong Kong under full Chinese rule?

'Beijing has given up pretending it respects Hong Kong’s freedoms'

We were nearing the end of a grim, evening seminar in King’s College London late last year, in which a professor studying China’s internment of over 1 million people in the province of Xinjiang had laid out Beijing’s methods of cultural annihilation. One of the students, a girl from Hong Kong, put up her hand. “What’s happened in Xinjiang,” she said, “do you think it could happen in Hong Kong?”

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