Shackled Hong Kong, Invaded Ukraine, Encroached Taiwan: Stirrings across the Chinese Communist Frontiers in a World Transformed by Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Abstract

From Hong Kong’s journey since the tumultuous struggle for democracy under the shadow of the tentacles of the authoritarian People’s Republic of China overlord till the dark descent into outright suppression of dissent beneath the pall of a Beijing central State-imposed draconian “national security law”, to the increasingly repressive authoritarian Russia’s Putin regime launching an outright murderous irredentist military invasion of Ukraine and blatant annexation of Ukrainian territories, to the increasingly frequent and numerous mainland China warplane flybys crossing the median line in the Taiwan Strait, the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship’s continued bullying military harassment in the skies and waters off Taiwan’s coast and threatening live-fire military exercises encircling the vibrantly liberal democratic Taiwan with Chinese missiles flying over the free island nation during the military drills, this article explores the current continuing assault on the liberal democratic world from repressive authoritarian powers.

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Keywords: Hong Kong, China, Ukraine, Taiwan, Russia