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Rage grows over ‘painful stab at press freedom’ with ABS-CBN franchise denial “It’s not about wanting to cut ties with China. It’s that China is itself becoming a very unreliable and rather dangerous partner,†said lawmaker and former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith. He cited Beijing’s “trashing†of the Sino-British Joint Declaration — the treaty supposed to guarantee Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy when it reverted from British to Chinese rule — and aggressive posturing in the South China Sea as areas of concern. “This is not a country that is in any way managing itself to be...
