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Huge thanks to
@selina_cheng
,
@EricWishart
, and all the people I spoke to but couldn't name in this piece.
The picture this paints is bleak, but it's been heartening to see solidarity between journos the amount of attention this is getting beyond HK. This story is far from over.
The
@WSJ
's firing of
@HKJA_Official
chair
@selina_cheng
has sent shockwaves through the media.
But the most shocking part may be that the WSJ is not alone: sources tell
@rhokilpatrick
HK's biggest international media are pressuring employees not to join.
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Hong Kong's Bishop Ha has urged the government to set up an independent inquiry into the death of 22-year-old protester Alex Chow Tsz-lok.
"This is something that no civilized society should accept, and anyone with conscience would not accept,” he said.
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In the lobby of Taipei Main Station, a flash mob to support Hong Kong—as it faces the effective demise of One Country, Two Systems—is about to begin.
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Bedlam just broke out on Shantung Street in Mong Kong after undercover police posing as protesters tackled several people to the ground and pepper sprayed the crowd.
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Police water canon maliciously targets reporter on Hennessy Road.
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@TiffanyAndCo
.
@TiffanyAndCo
just deleted a tweet showing a model with her hand over her right eye because Chinese bots were accusing the company of supporting the “rioters” in Hong Kong.
Incredible how quickly global companies will self-censor now and sell out people fighting for democracy.
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This, presumably, is what HK01 was alluding to by “even bigger news” that would accompany postponement of the LegCo election: a mass disqualification of pro-democracy candidates that seems aimed at barring all primary winners from standing for office.
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The China we could’ve had vs the China we got
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Police have just rescinded permission for today’s march and ordered everyone to disperse. This is the scene in Wan Chai with many children and families. Victoria Park is still 1/3 full of people starting the march. They’re now all guilty of taking part in an “illegal assembly.”
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Hundreds of people have assembled at Taipei’s Liberty Square to remember the victims of the June 4th massacre, including a sizeable coterie of Hongkongers and their supporters.
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The flag of East Turkestan is flying in Central today at a rally to show solidarity with Uighurs persecuted in China.
The crowd of hundreds is quickly growing as speakers on stage call for the freeing of Nobel laureate Ilham Tohti and all political prisoners.
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In a message just posted on Facebook. Taiwan’s Pres. Tsai
@iingwen
says she will consider invoking article 60 of the Regulations Governing Relations with HK and Macau to institute “necessary emergency measures” to help Hongkongers if the city’s situation continues to deteriorate.
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lol I’m literally a Chinese citizen born in Hong Kong, which due to our ethnically discriminatory nationality policy is restricted to Hongkongers of Chinese ancestry. Sorry the fact one of my parents isn’t Han violates your one-drop rule.
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Thundering reception for Lam Cheuk-ting and Ted Hui as they step out of the West Kowloon courts, bailed on $15,000 and $5,000 respectively and having surrendered their passports.
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As “Glory to Hong Kong” brings the crowd to their feet, they seem to stand taller and shine brighter than the skyscrapers surrounding them.
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HK Police Force Procedures Manual Article 29-02 Use of Force Continuum states (post-10/1 revisions) that pepper spray may be used only when confronted with "Defensive Resistance”—i.e. "Physical action [that] might cause injury to oneself or others."
More:
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Hong Kong police preventing people from gathering in Victoria Park by gathering in Victoria Park.
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Outside Prince Edward station, it’s hard to tell who outnumbers whom: the citizens queuing up to commemorate the anniversary of the 8.31 incident or the riot police surrounding them. For now, the heavy police presence means all of MK is awash with black clothes and white flowers.
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In Central another spontaneous lunchtime march has kicked off to support the protesters trapped inside the Polytechnic University. They’re chanting, “Save PolyU! There are students [there]!”
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China and the
@WHO
accused Taiwan of overreacting when they blocked arrivals from China. The results?
Korea: 1,595
#COVID19
cases
Japan: 894
Singapore: 93
Taiwan: 32
Taiwan's authorities showed more wisdom than the global public health agency they’ve been unfairly barred from.
So when countries took measures to prevent the spread of
#coronavirus
,
#China
& WHO accused us of overreaction. Now that coronavirus has spread further around the world,
@WHO
concluded that the rest of the world is simply not ready for the coronavirus. What's the logic here？
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Shocking news out of Hong Kong this morning as “at least 50” pan-democrats are arrested, many for “subverting state power” under the NSL.
大批泛民遭警上門拘捕 疑與民主派初選有關 涉顛覆國家政權罪
接收最快疫情警報！立刻下載App：
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Easily tens of thousands in this march as it makes it way toward Hung Hom, passing through the same battleground as the attempt to relieve the police siege of PolyU on 18 November.
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The crowd at the rally in Central tonight in support of the US Human Rights and Democracy act is so huge is essentially become a march by necessity, as overspill from Chater Garden fan out in all directions.
#StandWithHongKong
#HKHRDA
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How to solve months-long crisis of legitimacy that draws millions of angry citizens, HK-style:
1. Glue down/cement over paving stones so protesters can’t throw them
2. Remove rubbish bins so they can’t be used for roadblocks
3. Cage in every pedestrian walkway over a major road
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It is urban warfare in Tsuen Wan right now. Tear gas, rubber bullets, petrol bombs, bricks and more.
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The group on the left was led away first. Most looked like regular shoppers in the wrong place at the wrong time, and weren’t cuffed or forced to kneel. The group on the right, all on the ground and cuffed, are still there. This crowd is mostly young and dressed in black.
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What is the rationale for handcuffing
@chowtingagnes
and
@JimmyLaiApple
?
Pic via InMediaHK
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Today’s the day HK’s election was scheduled for before being postponed by at least a year, and a rally is due to kick off in Kowloon to protest the move.
Thousands of police are patrolling the area. My bus across the harbour was boarded by officers who searched everyone’s bags.
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China has really overstepped this time. Thanks to their stunning pettiness with the NBA and South Park’s "Band in China" episode, the issue of exported Chinese censorship has been catapulted to the national conversation in the US. We could look back on this as a watershed moment.
South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker hit back at China after the govt. scrubbed the show from Chinese internet. "Like the NBA, we welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts. We too love money more than freedom and democracy."
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Out today, the latest episode of BBC’s The Compass radio documentary series spends close to half of its running time in Hong Kong (PolyU and HKU) to discuss the issue of free speech and its limitations on university campuses.
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Hongkongers in Taipei are making the third anniversary of the 12 June 2019 protest today with a march, a rally, and—briefly—flag-burning at the Bank of China steps. They say the struggle has moved overseas but it is not over.
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According to Apple Daily and Golden live streamers, there are “over a hundred” undercover police dressed as protesters at Kowloon Bay’s Telford Plaza shopping mall right now.
That’s pushing four times the number of actual protesters in Landmark North, Sheung Shui this afternoon.
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Look at this fleet of supports and kind-hearted strangers trying to get protesters out of the Tsing Ma Bridge toll plaza and
#backhome
safe.
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“[The govt is] left with so little legitimacy and social capital that citizens simply no longer believe it will act in their interests.”
HK’s handing of the
#coronavirus
crisis would be bad for any city; for a modern, global metropolis that weathered SARS, it’s an embarrassment.
“A fragile state is usually defined by its inability to protect citizens, to provide basic services and by questions over the legitimacy of its government.”
Hong Kong is starting to tick a lot of boxes.
Hong Kong Is Showing Symptoms of a Failed State
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These designs for a new Taiwan passport cover, up for public vote by the New Power Party, are really impressive.
The results aren’t binding but follow the passing of a resolution to emphasise Taiwan over China in the passport design and national airline.
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「台灣不再是『亞細亞的孤兒』。」
“Taiwan is no longer the ‘Orphan of Asia.’” - Pres. Tsai
@iingwen
One of the most memorable lines, for me, from the President’s National Day address, after acknowledging the increasing global support and vaccine donations Taiwan has received.
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This is worse than it looks.
Even a normal baton strike (i.e. to the thighs/forearms) would be against regulation, as it is reserved for meeting “active aggression.”
But leaked police training manuals show that a strike to the head is in fact “deadly force”—same as firearm use.
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Yes, these are bankers chanting 「光復香港，時代革命！」
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Hong Kong’s Commerce and Economic Development Bureau is now engaging in a political struggle session against the city’s most trusted news service, public broadcaster
@rthk_enews
, after journalist
@yvonne_tg
questioned a top
@WHO
official about the UN agency’s exclusion of Taiwan.
Responding to the WHO RTHK interview, the CEDB said: "The Secretary [Edward Yau] holds the view that the presentation in that episode of the aforesaid programme has breached the One-China Principle and the purposes and mission of RTHK as a public service broadcaster..."
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Tonight officers under the newly-established nat'l security branch of the HK police are rounding up teenagers for “inciting others to separatism,” which many attribute to a single FB post on Sunday:
This is why the NSL is also called the “insecurity law."
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A: 100%.
Two thieves impersonating plainclothes police stole over $200k from a man last night during a “stop and search” just around the corner from Tuen Mun Police Station.
This is a Hong Kong police officer in 2020. If you were to ask him for his warrant card, you could be arrested and charged with ‘obstruction.’ Once this ‘look’ is normalized, what are the chances criminals and protesters will take advantage of it?
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This is what Hong Kong already looks like *without* a national security law.
Dozens of kids — literally kids — being dragged away one by one, handcuffed. Again the press is held back by orange tape so we can’t get too close.
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This isn’t even Orchid Island, it’s Sanxiantai in Taitung.
These people claim Taiwan as their property yet know absolutely nothing about it. It reminds me of “Formosa Betrayed” when the mainlander put in charge of Taiwan’s pineapple industry couldn’t even recognise a pineapple.
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Behold the racing outfits on display at today’s
#HKstreetathon
, one of the first road running competitions since the outbreak of the city’s pro-democracy protest movement not to have been cancelled.
Photos courtesy of Stands News and AM730.
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So proud to have won the Human Rights Press Award for Investigative Feature Writing for our work examining the Hong Kong Police Force's misconduct and ongoing unaccountability. It was an honour to work with
@ShibaniMahtani
,
@TMclaughlin3
and Tiffany Liang on this important story.
In Hong Kong crackdown, police repeatedly broke their own rules — and faced no consequences
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Tear gas fired on Hong Kong protesters marching between Causeway Bay and Wan Chai to oppose national security legislation that threatens to end One Country, Two Systems.
The first tear gas of the post-COVID season and what will not only be a long day but another summer of rage.
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Over 100 police officers currently raiding the newsroom of pro-democracy newspaper
@appledaily_hk
following arrest of
@JimmyLaiApple
and other senior staff. Apple Daily is only the major newspaper in the city to buck Beijing’s authority and openly support the democracy movement.
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Hong Kong students are magic. Change my mind.
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how it started how it’s going
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Notably, however, she made it clear that she hadn’t tightened restrictions herself—she had succeeded in requesting that Beijing temporarily cease using the permits. HKers are pointing to this as further proof they no longer control their own borders as promised in the Basic Law.
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After all the ink spilled in the West about the unstoppable “march of authoritarianism” worldwide maybe we ought to be writing more about how the people of HK and Taiwan stood their ground and pushed right back this year.
And maybe the rest of the world ought to be behind them.
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Extremely concerning that
@aimenlau
has had her account permanently suspended for “platform manipulation and spam”—especially when the only “amplification” she’s engaged in is retweeting
#A4Revolution
#ChinaProtests
content.
If there’s anyone even left
@TwitterSupport
, fix this.
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Hard to imagine this isn’t a nod to the
#HongKongProtests
.
An exhibition on the 30th anniversary of Taiwan‘s pro-democracy Wild Lilly student movement by Liberty Square speaks of a new “Five Demands”—just like Hong Kong’s—for the new Legislative Yuan voted into power in January.
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This wouldn’t be a bad idea if the border were closed, so anyone already in HK who exhibits
#nCoV2019
symptoms is not deterred from seeking treatment due to the potential cost and continues to infect others.
But as long as that’s not the case, it provides a perverse incentive.
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She is going to lose her mind when she finds out how many Japanese restaurants there are here.
Baidu Maps show that there are 38 Shandong dumpling restaurants and 67 Shanxi noodle restaurants in Taipei. Palates don't cheat.
#Taiwan
has always been a part of China. The long lost child will eventually return home.
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Saw Revolution of Our Times at an advance screening today (general release in Taiwan Feb. 25) and I have never heard such a chorus of sniffles when the credits ran—not to mention gasps at footage of police violence. No less moving for those of us who were there on the frontlines.
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Per
@StandNewsHK
the bus driver arrested y’day for dangerous driving—after he reportedly honked at police blocking the road—has now been charged with possession of a concealed weapon: a spanner.
The divers’ union head says the tool is sometimes used to adjust rear-view mirrors.
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Beijing’s move to promulgate a nat’l security law for HK constitutes an “all-out assault on basic human rights” and a ploy to seize total control, says the organiser.
“Taiwanese people and the gov’t cannot stay aloof. We will stand together with HK and oppose China’s tyranny.”
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The ironic thing about this is that HK Brits in the colonial era never touched 茶餐廳 food. It's 100% a creation by and for the local working class. Far from a symbol of HKers being "damaged" or corrupted by colonialism, it's an embodiment of their resilience and resourcefulness.
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A national campaign is currently underway to “clean up” the books available at primary and middle school libraries across China. Anything that “does not conform to socialist values,” “threatens national unity” or “defames the Party leadership” will be stripped from the shelves.
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Siobhan Bernadette Haughey takes silver in the 200m freestyle, winning Hong Kong’s first-ever Olympic medal in swimming and, if I may, reflected glory for all us mixed Irish-Hongkongers!
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In her victory speech, incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen says the historic
#TaiwanElection
turnout shows “how much we treasure democracy and our country: the Republic of China Taiwan.” The name she used—「中華民國台灣」—is a subtle but significant shift in nomenclature.
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This is a solidly average home price in HK, where developers and gov’t collude to keep property values sky-high.
For this supposedly leftist group to give a free pass to crony capitalism and instead find fault with ordinary HKers for owning a thing is… very on-brand, actually.
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From Telegram:
What’s the difference between withdrawing the extradition bill on 9 June and withdrawing it on 4 September?
- 3 eyes lost
- 2 MTR terror attacks
- 2 seriously injured in knife attacks
- 8 dead
- Over 100 prosecutions
- Over 1,000 arrests
- Countless injured
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What gaslighting an entire city looks like.
HK police today really drawing on the "independent" watchdog report framing the 7.21 thug attack as a "gang fight involving...both sides." Critics had dismissed the report as a whitewash but it's now being weaponised by police to back up falsehoods
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Yesterday in Tsuen Wan I noticed two new tactics used by protesters to slow the advance of riot police: emptying small bags of marbles and squirting out dishwashing liquid on the street to slip them up when they charge. If this is what CIA funding looks like, I am underwhelmed.
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The turnout for today’s banned
#antiELAB
march from TST to West Kowloon is remarkable. Two streams moving northward and southward on Nathan Road.
#HKprotests
#HongKongProstests
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Taipei 101 and the Grand Hotel lit up tonight to express gratitude to Japan for its vaccine donation and celebrate friendship between the two countries.
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Jacky Cheung has released a statement after a video he did for CCTV was removed for containing the phrase「香港加油」(“HK add oil”). He says he doesn’t see why the phrase is OK for Shanghai etc but not HK.
He’s so close to getting it’s not really about loving HK and the country.
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The first of three protest marches planned for today is soon to begin in Edinburgh Place. Marchers will walk to police headquarters in Wan Chai to protest against the effects of the force’s heavy tear gas use on children. Today’s marches are the first allowed by police in months.
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.
@Dior
became the latest company to prostrate itself before Chinese nationalists this morning, apologising profusely for PPT slide in which a map of China did not include Taiwan.
“Dior celebrates the 70th anniversary of the glorious birth of New China!”
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Ironically, framing Taiwan as a land on the precipice of war serves both Beijing—keen to scare off growing int’l invest and interest in the country—and Western Sinophobes who view it as nothing more than a political pawn.
It does an incredible disservice to the Taiwanese people.
Taiwan is the most dangerous place on Earth. A war over the island would be a catastrophe: America and China must work harder to avoid it. Our cover this week
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HKIA is a warzone right now. Several arrests. Pepper spray. Blood on the ground and passengers still arriving. Hong Kong is broken.
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Macau has passed a law requiring all passengers aboard public transportation to wear face-masks from today to prevent the spread of
#2019nC0V
, joining Guangzhou.
Hong Kong’s government is still fighting a court appeal to impose a law banning face-masks.
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Aegis 保護傘 is a cafe created to offer jobs and work visas to Hong Kong protesters who fled to Taiwan.
Located just opposite NTU at 新生南路三段70巷, it offers a mixed menu of pasta dishes plus classics like 西多士 and菠蘿油, as well as free books and pamphlets on the protests.
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This is the scene outside Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital, where medical workers are striking to demand the government close the city’s border with mainland China to contain the
#WuhanCoronavirusOutbreak
and provide adequate support for both hospital employees and regular HKs.
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Five Next Media execs reportedly arrested on suspicion of “foreign collusion” under the National Security Law, after around a hundred police officers raided
@appledaily_hk
HQ early this morning, taking away reems of documents.
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HK01 reports that three maritime escape routes connecting HK and Taiwan, plied by protesters since July, have been effectively “plugged up” since China’s coastguard strengthened its presence in the waters around HK in order to intercept fleeing dissidents.
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What was the justification for shutting down the entire MTR network at 1800 tonight? No protests planned. The gov’t is so nakedly trying to manufacture mass hysteria that they hope will turn the public against protesters it’s hardly worth commenting on. A curfew in all but name.
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Is 免費香港 still OK?
A few weeks ago the
@YorkTories
welcomed
@lukedepulford
to come and talk to us. His talk inspired me and many of our members. So important to increase awareness of what is happening in Hong Kong.
#FreeHongKong
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Chinese netizens have accused pop idol Hebe Tien of S.H.E. fame of supporting Nancy Pelosi because—wait for it—she posted a picture of herself eating pasta on IG yesterday and Pelosi has Italian ancestry.
You cannot tell me these things are unrelated.
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Becoming a broken record here but once again: the HKPF’s own guidelines say pepper spray is only for use against “physical action [that] might cause injury to oneself or others." There can be no justification for this. Will this officer ever face discipline? Can he even be ID’d?
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Int’l coverage of Taiwan has come leaps and bounds as more correspondents have moved here in recent years; but, as I listen to a 40-minute podcast on Pelosi’s trip in which Taiwan’s people and their elected leaders are not mentioned once, I’m reminded how far we still have to go.
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Today HK protesters have been circulating a colour-coded guide on how to treat local businesses:
💛 Pro-democracy stores = support
💙 Pro-Gov’t stores = boycott
❤️ Vocally pro-Gov’t chains = “redecorate” (posters, paint, etc)
🖤 Triad dens and Gov’t bases = “refurbish” (smash)
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Has Hong Kong become a police state? Let’s hear from the FTU’s Alice Mak.
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Blue flag already raised at East Point, Causeway Bay, the starting point for today’s proposed National Day march to Central calling for the release of 12 young Hongkongers being held incommunicado in a mainland detention centre for over a month.
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Kettled on Nathan between Saigon and Ning Po after a blue flag was raised near where Student Politics members were giving out face masks.
Most journalists were allowed out after checking our press passes but some reporters, either students or from small outlets, were retained.
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Tens of thousands of people are coursing through the heart of Causeway Bay. At the tail end of the march, Victoria Park is still full of protesters waiting to file out and join the march.
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CCP mouthpiece
@PDChina
stealing my footage (and others) without attribution, then saying the footage—in which journalists are deliberately targeted by police water cannons—will “make you feel good!”
Doesn’t get more unprofessional or inhuman than this.
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The Taiwan-Hong Kong Services and Exchanges Office officially opened in Taipei at 10:00 this morning to provide humanitarian assistance and other services to Hongkongers who wish to study, do business, make investments, or seek asylum in Taiwan.
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Nothing gets the blood boiling quite like listening to a podcast on US-China diplomacy in which American experts talk about/over Hong Kong like it’s just some political poker chip and not home to millions of people who have been struggling for decades to decide their own fate.
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Outside LegCo, a one-man protest calling for immediate restoration of the 6 September Legislative Council election delayed for at least one year by Chief Executive Carrie Lam.
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A message circulated by the admin in this HK protest Telegram group recalls the names of Black Americans killed by police violence in recent years before concluding: “If we turn a blind eye to the suffering of others... we have no right to ask others to care about our suffering.”
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Protesters defiant on Hennessy Road. One year and one draconian national security law later, their five demands have not changed.
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Just in from today’s foreign ministry press briefing: Beijing explains there can’t have been an incident involving Chinese and Taiwanese diplomats in Suva because “Taiwan has no so-called diplomats in Fiji” and Chinese Embassy staff were provoked by _a cake_ bearing the ROC flag.
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Again: despite their “One Country” bluster, Chinese nationalists do not actually view us as their coequals or compatriots. They view HK as a colonial possession, and us as their unruly subjects. They’re not championing unity, they’re asserting ownership.
Uh oh .... nationalists chanting “China is your daddy” in Mandarin.
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Just heard a news presenter refer to these structures, used to impede police vehicles at protest road blocks (and possibly ritual purposes), as “Stonehenges.”
FYI they are trilithons—and that is the first time I’ve got to use my archaeology education since moving back to HK. 💁♂️
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