The Crushing of Light

November 30, 1989 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from "The World" (Coos Bay, Oregon) November 30, 2019 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from the "South China Morning Post" (scmp.com) Support for Hong Kong protests in China has consequences 5 hours ago

November 29, 1989 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from "The Sheboygan Press" (Sheboygan, Wisconsin) November 29, 2019 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" link to today's digital edition: https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?edid=06a17e48-0162-4520-bbb3-040df904bf8c U.S. delights protesters, irks China Trump signs two bills on Hong Kong amid trade war with Beijing PRO-DEMOCRACY demonstrators celebrate Thursday in Hong Kong’s Central district after President Trump signed two bills in support of their human rights. (Marcus Yam Los Angeles Times) By Alice Su and Ryan Ho Kilpatrick HONG KONG — Dozens of American flags fluttered in the wind on Thanksgiving night in Hong Kong as thousands gathered at a rally in appreciation of the U.S. passage of two bills supporting human rights in Hong Kong that were signed into law by President Trump. As a man sang “The Star-Spangled Banner,” a sea of cellphone t...

November 28, 1989 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from the "Daily News" (New York, New York) November 28, 2019 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from the "South China Morning Post" (scmp.com) Opinion |  Hongkongers show they are not afraid to stand up to Beijing’s heavy hand Michael Chugani

November 27, 1989 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from "The Age" (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) November 27, 2019 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from the "South China Morning Post" (scmp.com) Trump signs Hong Kong human rights bill, ignoring China’s warnings Trump signs legislation that could sanction the Hong Kong government for not upholding autonomy from mainland China Beijing has blasted the act as ‘meddling’ and vowed ‘consequences’ if the US leader signed it 2 minutes ago

November 26, 1989 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" Fang Lizhi editorial from the "Los Angeles Times" (I am having a problem uploading it - will try again later!) November 26, 2019 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" except from the "South China Morning Post" (scmp.com) Elections shook up Hong Kong politics. How will Beijing brace for the impact? The results of the district council elections will boost the power of the non-establishment camp and possibly influence the race for the city’s leader, observers say A central government official agreed that Beijing was surprised by the landslide win for the pan-democrats 27 Nov 2019 - 6:45AM

November 25, 1989 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from the "Arizona Republic" November 25, 2019 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" link to today's digital edition: https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?edid=fd40b32b-6dd0-408b-9f5d-169f84777403 Pro-democracy voices roar in Hong Kong vote Landslide win in local elections viewed as a protest referendum. SUPPORTERS RALLY for pro-Beijing candidate Junius Ho, right side, and the Democratic Party’s Lo Chun-yu on Sunday in Hong Kong’s Tuen Mun district. (Marcus Yam Los Angeles Times) By David Pierson HONG KONG — In nearly six months of unprecedented unrest in Hong Kong, the semiautonomous city’s government and its backers in Beijing have tried to paint the pro-democracy movement as a fringe and violent uprising led by radical protesters. On Sunday, voters in Hong Kong seized on the city’s only direct elections to send an unmistakable message that the...

November 24, 1989 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" November 24, 2019 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from the "South China Morning Post" (scmp.com) China claims ‘spy’ who defected to Australia is a fraud Shanghai police claim Wang Liqiang was convicted of fraud in 2016 and is under investigation for another alleged crime.

November 23, 1989 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from the "Times-News" (Twin Falls, Idaho - originally printed in the "Washington Post") November 23, 2019 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" link to today's digital edition: https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?edid=cf9d6318-2a63-4758-83aa-22cd63d9af99 Hiding on a besieged Hong Kong campus STUDENT KEN WOO has made it his job to find and aid the protesters left at the deserted Hong Kong Polytechnic University after a battle with police. (Kiran Ridley For The Times) By David Pierson HONG KONG — The campus of Hong Kong Polytechnic University looks like a bomb blast site covered in graffitied pro-democracy slogans. Nearly every inch of ground is blanketed in broken glass, strewn bricks, water bottles, umbrellas, gloves, nails, clothing and chairs. Chemical smells and industrial odors hang in the air. A crudely built brick wall serving a...

November 22, 1989 excerpts from the "Los Angeles Times", the "Daily Sitka Sentinel", the "Sydney Morning Herald" and the "Honolulu Star-Bulletin" November 22, 2019 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" link to today's digital edition: https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?edid=2a28235d-266e-4882-9766-e2642b0d512f Uncertainty clouds Hong Kong vote As tensions escalate, speculation abounds that district election will be postponed or canceled HONG KONG demonstrators rally at a shopping mall in Yuen Long district. Unrest over the weekend prompted a government official to signal that Sunday’s district council election could be called off if demonstrators continued to obstruct traffic or disrupt mass transit. (Philip Fong AFP/Getty Images) By David Pierson HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s district council elections usually inspire a collective yawn. The largely consult...

November 21, 1989 excerpts from the "Los Angeles Times" November 21, 2019 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" link to today's digital edition: https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?edid=a1c20661-c2b4-4b73-86c5-9e857763a88a British Consulate ex-staffer alleges torture by China associated press BEIJING — A former employee of the British Consulate in Hong Kong says he was detained and tortured by Chinese secret police trying to extract information about massive anti-government protests in the territory. Simon Cheng said in an online statement and media interviews that he was hooded, beaten, deprived of sleep and chained to an X-shaped frame by plainclothes and uniformed agents as they sought information on activists involved in the protests and the role they believed Britain played in the demonstrations. British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab summoned the Chinese ambassador in London to demand that Beijing investigate. “...

November 20, 1989 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" November 20, 2019 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" link to today's digital edition: https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?edid=77d9971b-0fde-4444-95a6-8ad803ffd7fa Hong Kong faces legal threat China criticizes ruling on protesters’ face masks, raising concern it may be overruled. STUDENTS GATHER for a march at the Chinese University of Hong Kong this month. Beijing’s latest move may test the limits of the “one country, two systems” framework under which Hong Kong is governed. (Billy H.C. Kwok Getty Images) HONG KONG’S chief executive had imposed the ban on face masks under a 1922 colonial-era statute. (Achmad Ibrahim Associated Press) associated press BEIJING — Criticism from China’s rubber-stamp parliament of a Hong Kong court decision is raising concerns that Beijing may move to flex its legal muscles and overrule the verdict. That’s laying bare the limi...

November 19, 1989 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from the "Democrat and Chronicle" (Rochester, New York) November 19, 2019 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" link to today's digital edition: https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?edid=370bc7dc-3d0a-489b-ab87-225b8703055d Police blockade inflames Hong Kong protesters Palpable anger over trapped students fuels unrest across city. PROTESTERS use bricks to block a road near Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where police and students have clashed amid demonstrations against growing Chinese control over the semiautonomous territory. (Billy H.C. Kwok Getty Images) associated press HONG KONG — Police tightened their siege of a university campus where hundreds of protesters remained trapped overnight Tuesday in the latest dramatic episode in months of protests against growing Chinese control over the semiautonomous t...

November 18, 1989 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from "The Gazette" (Montreal, Quebec) November 18, 2019 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" link to today's digital edition: https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?edid=eaec7df8-e2e9-497c-a924-67a00f761d6e Amid Hong Kong unrest, one family frets over its future Migrating is a divisive decision, a reminder of the exodus in 1990s. By David Pierson HONG KONG — In the years leading up the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to China, hundreds of thousands of residents fearful of communist rule moved abroad. Virginia Tsang and her family stayed put. When the city was shaken in 2003 by mass protests over a draconian national security law, and again in 2014 by the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement sit-in, Tsang remained on the sidelines. Politics never worried her. The demonstrations that erupted in June profoundly changed that. Enraged by government intransigen...