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    'Hong Kong is in a state of shock': New law is China's latest show of strength

    by Shashank Bengali, Alice Su and David Pierson, Los Angeles Times May 22, 2020 4 minutes

    SHANGHAI - With its COVID-19 outbreak waning, nationalism rising at home and its antagonists in the Trump administration preoccupied by the pandemic and election-year politics, the Chinese Communist Party is boldly moving to crush a dangerous obstacle to its authority.

    By imposing a new national security law on Hong Kong, Beijing signaled its determination to squelch a fierce anti-China protest movement - and demolished the longstanding firewall protecting the high-flying territory's human rights and freedoms from interference from the authoritarian mainland.

    For Xi Jinping, the most powerful Chinese leader in decades, the strategy is yet another show of strength as he seeks to overcome accusations of mishandling the

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