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A photo of Academia Sinica’s main entrance. Image via Wikicommons, Lysimachi (CC BY-SA 4.0) This post first appeared in the online magazine New Bloom on January 30, 2022. This edited version is being republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. Taiwanese academic Wu Rwei-Ren has been accused by pro-Beijing media in Hong Kong earlier this month of violating the Hong Kong national security law that was passed in June 2020. The law targets what it considers as acts of separatism or sedition, and was passed by China’s National People’s Congress, circumventing the Hong Kong l…