South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Four enter US consulate after national security police arrest HK activist planning asylum bid” – below is their description.
Four Hong Kong activists entered the US consulate on October 27, 2020, hours after the city’s national security unit arrested a student activist ahead of his planned asylum bid at the diplomatic mission. Tony Chung, former convenor of the defunct pro-independence group Studentlocalism, was at a coffee shop opposite the consulate when he was detained by at least three officers. Two other former members of Studentlocalism, Yannis Ho and William Chan, were also arrested later.
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.