Four years after the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law, pro-democracy political parties in Hong Kong are facing unprecedented political pressure. Following the sentencing of 45 pro-democracy figures to severe penalties for conspiring to subvert state power, two major pro-Beijing newspapers on Thursday issued strong condemnations of Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy party, the Democratic Party.

Analysts believe this signals that Beijing is issuing a final ultimatum to the Democratic Party, a mainstay of Hong Kong's pro-democracy politics since its founding in 1994.