Hong Kong pro-democracy shops fear China’s new security law

HONG KONG: Daniel Lee says a surge of new customers came to his Hong Kong Reader Bookstore after pro-democracy demonstrations erupted in the Chinese-ruled territory last summer, looking for books on political protest. Now he fears he will have to take some bestsellers – such as V?clav Havel’s “The Power of the Powerless” and a collection of eye-witness accounts of the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989 – off his shelves, as China prepares to introduce new national security legislation for Hong Kong. “If one day they identify uncensored books as attempts to subvert state power, we would have little chance…