After last month's national security law from Beijing, pro-democracy lawmakers fear the anthem bill is a further encroachment by the mainland.
On the eve of the Tiananmen anniversary, democratically ruled Taiwan called on China to apologize for the bloody 1989 crackdown and begin democratic political reform. The call was dismissed as"nonsense" by China's foreign ministry.
In Hong Kong, too, where public commemorations normally go ahead each year, for the first time, vigils will take place online — due to the coronavirus pandemic, officials say — although more than one thousand people still gathered at the city's central Victoria Park., a pro-democracy advocacy group formed in 1989, has organized a virtual candlelight vigil. The group said it would also stream a program of events online, including a minute's silence and slogan chanting.
"With the national security law we will still continue to have the vigil. ... There may be personal risk but we do not want to live in fear. We will still continue."
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