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DCer Lester Shum, who wanted to run for #Legco DC superseat, says scale of #DQ was surprising & “insane”
“Only mild opposition of #NSL, which majority of #HK held this position, is not allowed. #Beijing’s clear msg - no opposition voices in #HongKong. This is end of HK polls”
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3. Despite 610,000+ #Hongkongers voting in #HK’s primary, #Beijing now staged the biggest-ever crackdowns on the city’s election, by disqualifying nearly all pro-democracy runners, from young progressive groups to traditional moderate parties.
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4. Clealy, #Beijing shows a total disregard for the will of the #Hongkongers, tramples upon the city’s last pillar of vanishing autonomy and attempts to keep #HK’s legislature under its firm grip.
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[Mass disqualification is just the beginning]
1. #Beijing is staging multiple acts to prevent the opposition bloc from taking the majority in LegCo. They could disqualify us, arrest us, throw us into jail, or even call off the election and create a puppet parliament elsewhere.
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4. Clearly it is the largest election fraud in #HK’s history. But #Beijing cannot overturn the strong mandate of 610,000 #Hongkongers who had cast their ballots the city's first-ever #hkprimaries early this month.
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#Beijing is sending its first team of 7 experts to #HongKong tmr (Sun) for #coronavirus nucleic acid testing, after its #HK & Macau Affairs Office HKMAO announced ytd that it’s helping HK Govt to work on mass testing Hongkongers, per request of SAR Govt
This raised Qs about DNA
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[The city's largest-ever DNA collection by #China]
1. Starting from today, #Beijing will send medical personnel from China to #HK for mass testing. Just like #nationalsecuritylaw legislation, the decision is unilaterally imposed without public consultation.
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1/ Soon after #Beijing issued arrest warrants for the first non-Chinese national under its sweeping #nationalsecuritylaw, @SenatorMenendez and @RepEliotEngel condemned #China’s move in their statement, "today we are all Hong Kongers.”
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4/ It was the time when the regime began to build Berlin Wall, and East Germany surrounded West Berlin amid the Cold War. When #Beijing tightens its grip in HK, the world starts to realize HK has become West Berlin, despite China’s propaganda campaigns whitewashing its crackdown.
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[My thought after HK police issued arrest warrants to my friends]
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1/When #HKers hope to secure a historic majority in the upcoming election, Gov postponed election & asked #Beijing to deal with whether and how incumbent lawmakers can extend their tenure.
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8/ While #Beijing once claimed there would be no speech crime, the reality turns out to be the exact opposite.
After all, the situation becomes more critical, especially after the election was postponed.
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6/ It’s doubtful whether those Chinese labs can refuse to hand over their DNA data if #Beijing insists on taking the data. Not to mention that #China has already stationed its #secretpolice agency in #HongKong under #nationalsecuritylaw.
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[In response to #US's latest decision on #HK]
1. Clearly, the US’s decision is a reaction to #Beijing’s series of reckless crackdowns in #HongKong, from unilaterally imposing a sweeping #nationalsecuritylaw, ...
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4. When #Beijing scraps its promise of the city’s autonomy and extends its reach to schools, civil servants, judicial system and legislature, it is foreseeable that other countries will review their policies on Hong Kong.
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5/ Also when #Beijing faces more international critics after its crackdown on the city’s election, it is paving ways to arrest somebody like me, extradites to China, and takes me hostage for more diplomatic bargaining powers.
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[When reporting becomes Orwellian thoughtcrime]
1. @JimmyLaiApple's arrest and the raid of @appledaily_hk is a litmus test for the city's #pressfreedom, one of the cornerstones of whether #HK remains open, free and tolerant to critical views under #Beijing's authoritarian rule.
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2. Before that, #Beijing has already been toughening its curb on media, from setting up a new #nationalsecurity unit in Immigration Dept to screen foreign correspondents' visa application, replacing news heads of credible TV providers, to interrupting local media's news coverage.
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4. However, even when #Beijing attempts to rule the city with Orwellian thoughtcrimes, #Hongkongers will not surrender. Now it is not just our cause for democracy and liberty, but also a battle between truth and lies.
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4. It is even more outrageous, while universities like Princeton try all means to protect their students from the threats of #nationalsecuritylaw, our tech giants just once again kowtow to #Beijing.
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3. Without public scrutiny on funds from #Beijing government and directly funded bodies, it is worrying that those CCP funds have become China’s new leverage, which would clearly undermine the educational independence of receiving universities.
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