The majority of the pro-democracy opposition block of the Hong Kong legislature has resigned after four of their members were ousted using a new law passed by the Mainland Chinese legislature allowing local politicians to unseat dissenters without going through the courts. This means that the now almost entirely pro-Beijing Hong Kong legislature will act as rubber stamp for any policies proposed by the mainland. The opposition members resigned together to make a political statement louder than slowly losing their seats one by one. This means the very popular pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong will be without any sort of government representation and will lose out on the legitimacy of being able to associate with actual members of government, who had in the past spoke on behalf of protesters in the legislature, marched beside them to act as a shield from the police and were even arrested alongside them. This means that Beijing will now be able to paint the movement as nothing but "radicals disturbing the peace." It seems that no matter who they are or what they stand for, from the Uijger Muslims to Tibetan Buddhists to the practitioners of Falun Gong to democracy seekers in Hong Kong, no one can withstand the full weight of the CCP.
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