The disappearance of booksellers raises questions about Hong Kong’s autonomy 
Hong Kong, Jan. 10.─ Discretion is not a trait often associated with the glitzy shopfronts of Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay, but the low-key entrance to a small bookshop belies the store’s recent notoriety. Tucked between a chemist and a clothes shop, Causeway Bay Books (pictured) has become the centre of a mystery involving alleged kidnappings by Chinese secret agents, and of a fierce debate in Hong Kong about the former British colony’s autonomy under Chinese rule.
The door to the shop, up two flights of stairs, is now locked. The trickle of people going up are journalists and passers-by curious for news about five men connected with the shop who have disappeared in recent months. Many Hong Kongers fear that agents from China’s mainland may have been involved, and that the men were targeted because of the shop’s gossipy books. Titles recently on sale include “The Collapse of [President] Xi Jinping in 2017” and “Xi Jinping and the Elders: War at the Top”.
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