I Felt the Fear of Abduction by China in Hong Kong. Appeasing Bejing Has to Stop

In China’s huge city boulevards and vast deserts and mountains, my thoughts always felt imprisoned, but in Hong Kong’s narrow streets and tiny, cramped bookshops they were set free and given infinite space to wander. Shortly before setting off for the Hong Kong literary festival to discuss my novel China Dream, a satire of Xi’s tyrannical rule, I was told that the Tai Kwun arts centre no longer wished to host my events. But in China in 1989, and in Hong Kong this month, they brought out the best of human nature: courage, wisdom, compassion.

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