News Exercise #287

1 What is the issue that is being demonstrated again?
2 What independent authority does Hong Kong have?
3 What is the Chinese government’s message to the rest of the world regarding Hong Kong?
4 Why is the name of this movement “apt”?

Answers:
1 What is the issue that is being demonstrated against?
They are worried that people could be extradited to mainland China with the new law.

2 What independent authority does Hong Kong have?
It has its own legal system, its own judiciary, and its own borders.

3 What is the Chinese government’s message to the rest of the world regarding Hong Kong?
They have been issuing statement telling other countries not to get involved, meaning “mind your own business”.

4 Why is the name of this movement “apt”?
The name sounds the same as another expression meaning “seeing off a dead relative”, and it is apt because some people think this new law will be the death of Hong Kong’s independence.