Daily Memo: Arrest and Reconciliation

Security forces in Hong Kong carried out the largest wave of mass arrests since last summer.

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Beijing is mopping up in Hong Kong. At least 53 pro-democracy politicians and activists were detained Wednesday morning in the largest mass arrests since China imposed its sweeping national security law on the special administrative region last summer. Most of the charges relate to an unofficial opposition primary held in August, before Legislative Council elections […]

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