NOTE: Before answering the following questions, read the info under “Background” and “Resources” below.

1. List the who, what, where and when of the news item.

2. Define sedition and subversion as used in the article.

3. A government is referred to by its capital city (Washington or the White House is the Trump administration; London or Downing Street is Boris Johnson’s administration; the Kremlin or Moscow is Putin’s administration; Beijing represents Xi Jin Ping’s Communist Party government). What is Beijing’s goal for arresting 53 pro-democracy advocates last week?

4. Joshua Wong and other pro-democracy advocates are currently jailed for sedition - what did they do to bring this charge against them?

5. What did those arrested for subversion while already jailed for sedition do to earn them this latest arrest? What is their “crime”?

6. How did Beijing get away with passing a national “security” law in Hong Kong? (What was the CCP’s [Chinese Communist Party’s] excuse for passing the law?)

7. Joshua Wong and other young pro-democracy advocates (as well as jailed millionaire 70 year-old Jimmy Lai) are not afraid of the CCP. They do not give up, they do not give in. They peacefully stand up for truth, freedom and democracy. What is your reaction to the courage of these young (and old) men and women?