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<title><![CDATA[Timothy McLaughlin - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/40489.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Timothy McLaughlin]]></description><category domain="40489">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Symbol of a New, Darker Hong Kong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-symbol-of-a-new-darker-hong-kong/ar-AAXH7d1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Lee's elevation reflects the distrust and paranoia that have flourished in Beijing and among Hong Kong's political elites.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where the Language of Democracy Is a Cover]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/where-the-language-of-democracy-is-a-cover/ar-AAX23As</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To choose its next leader, Hong Kong uses words such as election, campaign, and vote to present the facade of freedom.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beijing Keeps Trying to Rewrite History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/beijing-keeps-trying-to-rewrite-history/ar-AARc0Dd?ocid=uxbndlbing</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Under the relentless crush of Beijing, the courtrooms of Hong Kong have become some of the few venues safe for protest in the city. Defendants accused or convicted of political crimes have turned otherwise banal hearings and bail applications into opportunities to voice dissent and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How China Weaponized the Press]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-china-weaponized-the-press/ar-AAOfMrm</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early one morning'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a couple of years ago, at the height of Hong Kong'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' prodemocracy protest movement,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Ta Kung Pao, a Chinese-government-owned newspaper based in Hong Kong, published what it claimed was a major scoop. An American diplomat had met with a group of high-profile...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China Is Killing Academic Freedom in Hong Kong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-academic-freedom-ends/ar-AAKL9F7</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Beijing is using dismissals, arrests, and a repressive new law to curtail students' and professors' rights.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Place w/Surprisingly High Vaccine Hesitancy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/04/hong-kong-trust-vaccine/618469/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong has the doses. What it lacks is trust between its leaders and its people.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Ominous Milestone in Hong Kong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/an-ominous-milestone-in-hong-kong-e2-80-99s-democratic-descent/ar-BB1byBXY</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of the issues Joshua Wong has faced during his time as an activist'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'harassment by'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Chinese state media,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' travel bans, and disqualification from'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' local politics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the loquacious dissident rarely suffers a loss for words. But that was the problem nearly a decade ago, when he gave...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beijing's Doublespeak in Hong Kong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/08/hong-kong-arrests-jimmy-lai/615121/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The authorities insist freedoms will be upheld. Their actions show otherwise.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of Hong Kong?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-end-of-hong-kong/ar-BB14sKjX</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the course of April and throughout May, while much of the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s attention was trained on the coronavirus'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s spiraling death toll, hardly a day passed in Hong Kong without news of arrested activists, scuffles among lawmakers, or bombastic proclamations from mainland...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coronavirus Is Devastating Chinese Tourism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/02/economy-coronavirus-myanmar-china-tourism/606715/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Countries have closed off their borders with China, airlines have slashed flights, and hotels have seen a big drop-off in bookings.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hong Kong's Colliding Crises]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The protesters gathered in a suburb here over the weekend looked much like the hundreds of thousands who have flooded this city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s streets for months. Their faces were covered with masks; they spoke of anger at the government while some piled bricks, bicycles, and road signs into...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hong Kong Doesn't Have a Pro-China 'Silent Majority']]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Voters overwhelmingly chose pro-democracy candidates in local elections, putting an end to the notion that a large chunk of the population was against months of protests.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Anger of Hong Kong's Youth]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[HONG KONG'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Amid the rainbow of stickers plastered on Joey Siu'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s laptop, there are a few bold proclamations of her feelings on current events. Hong Kong is not China, one sticker reads. Another references the ancient Code of Hammurabi, An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. HK...]]></description>
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