The extension of the communist legal system to Hong Kong demonstrates the “hide and bide” tactics applied by China for years are being replaced with overt and aggressive military maneuvers, according to Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“Given the Chinese crackdown on Hong Kong, our government is quite right to suspend the extradition treaty; and to offer all the 10,000 or so Hong Kongers, now here on temporary visas, a five-year extension, with a path to citizenship,” she said. “It would be dead wrong to send anyone for whom an arrest warrant has been issued, to a place where the government, dictates judicial outcomes”.
“It would be wrong not-to-offer a form of sanctuary to Hong Kongers living here, who don't want to return to a place where the rule of law has been suspended and where dissent against the Chinese government is potentially punishable with life imprisonment”. Ms Credlin said any sustained show of freedom by the Chinese government is “utterly toxic”. “China is every bit the strategic competitor that the old Soviet Union was from 1945 until 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall”.
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