No analysis for now. Instead, I just want to state that seeing the above list of news articles over on the Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) website has put butterflies (or worse) in my stomach. In particular, the Chinese and Hong Kong governments stopping their recognition of British Overseas Nationals (BNO) passports from this Sunday, and the Hong Kong government moving to require people to register their identity when buying pay-as-you-go mobile phone SIM cards, are causing alarm bells to ring pretty loudly for me.
Oh, and Joshua Wong pleaded guilty today to another 2019 unauthorized assembly charge. (Sentencing details to be revealed on March 23rd.) And a grand total of zero infections were uncovered in the North Point lockdown (which ended this morning); leading more than one person to suspect that, as journalist Ryan Ho Kilpatrick Tweeted, "govt tactics are starting to look either performative or a piecemeal enforcement of the mandatory testing rejected by most HKers last Sept". Truly, it is getting clearer and clearer by the day, if not hour, that all is not well in Hong Kong. :(
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