Does Article 23 Really Matter To Beijing?

Hong Kong journalist Liu Kin-ming writes on post-1997 self-censorship:

When I asked Peng Ming-min, the godfather of Taiwan's independence movement, to write an op-ed, the chief editor, fearing that it might violate Beijing's position on national unification, removed the piece at the last minute. In fact, up to this very minute as far as I know, there's no law in Hong Kong forbidding the advocacy of Taiwan independence. Better do it before the masters utter the order of course.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself? That may explain why Beijing endorsed the stalling of the infamous Article 23 bill.

Comments

[sunbin]

Maybe it is prejudice developed when reading his stuff, I just don't trust anything that Liu writes.

[LfC]

Who's Liu?

[sunbin]

Liu Kinming.....mysterious background :)