Press freedoms are crumbling across Asia. It’s likely to get worse.

7/8/21
 
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from The Washington Post,
7/6/21:

The closure of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily and the arrest of its journalists was another disgraceful chapter in the startling rollback of media freedoms across Asia in recent years. It’s only likely to get worse.

In the ongoing clash between the United States and China, future generations may very well look back on what’s happening right now in Hong Kong as a decisive front.

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