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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) deployed more than 200 special agents in Hong Kong to intervene in the news media Stand News, one of the few remaining opponents of the regime in the city. In addition to shutting down the newspaper, at least seven employees were detained. U.S. officials and the United Nations (UN) complained to China about what happened. Hong Kong’s pro-democracy media, Stand News, was shut down on Wednesday, Dec. 29, after 200 police raided its office. Communist authorities also froze its assets and ordered the arrest of its executives for alleged “seditious publication” offenses in the latest...