Silent Double Tenth Day in Hong Kong under national security law

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: Falling on October 10, Double Tenth Day commemorates the 1911 Wuchang uprising which ended Qing dynasty rule and led to the establishment of the Republic of China. But the day is only marked outside the Chinese mainland, and mostly by supporters of the Kuomintang or nationalists who lost China’s civil war to Communist forces in 1949. Double Tenth observances have been held for decades in Taiwan, Hong Kong and other places overseas where Kuomintang supporters fled. Since Hong Kong’s handover from British colonial rule in 1997, a few small groups of Kuomintang supporters had continued to raise flags and sing the national anthem of the Republic of China to mark the day. But in 2020, no such ceremonies took place, with organisers saying the events were cancelled amid fear of repercussions under the national security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong earlier in the year. (Photo: SCMP/ Winson Wong) Support us: https://subscribe.