Another piece of bizzarro New York Times Hong Kong coverage where the authors claim the awesome "Lady Liberty" statue is modeled on the American statue of liberty without mentioning the obvous and direct callback to Tiananmen Square.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/world/asia/hong-kong-protest-art.html …
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The article they did run, on the economic impact of the protests, doesn't mention the government's extensive program of subway closings, which have turned into a de facto curfew. Retail stores close along with the subway system, deepening the crisis.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/world/asia/hong-kong-protest-economy.html …
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Neither does this article mention that authorities have begun pre-emptively closing entire malls on weekends, or that police recently began forcibly entering malls, which has a massive chilling effect on retailers. What gives,
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NYT has a number of bureaus in mainland China. I wonder what the impact would be on the reporters and people they have there and whether that pressure has been applied already or not. (And perhaps also what involvement those bureaus have in coverage of HK.)
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