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Even in Hong Kong, an international financial center whose success was once based on freedoms that were not granted on mainland China, this was previously unimaginable. But that is exactly what happened on Thursday when one of Hong Kong’s largest newspapers with more than 600,000 paying subscribers to its online news platform was effectively shut down by the Hong Kong authorities committed to the Chinese communist government in Beijing.
