2051
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3/ Install mainland institutions into Hong Kong
3.1/ HK Government will set up a commission to safeguard national security chaired by the city’s leader and which will include an adviser appointed by Beijing. Full power directed from Beijing. The role of HK government is limited
2052
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2. Wong said if he has a gun, he will use it to shoot Leung. He even publicly threw death threats on court, saying "Joshua Wong & Ted Hui must die”. But without slamming his reckless words, judge praised Wong for being “willing to contribute to society" and released him on bail.
2053
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2/ As hawkish as it showed 4 years ago, this time Beijing even horrendously bypassed HK's judiciary and legislature when enforcing the order. It proved that Beijing is still very keen on going after the Pro-democratic camp and will not spare professional elites.
2054
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3/ I added my voice to the throng, posting a meme of three figures clinking glasses of milk tea and calling for pan-Asian solidarity “to fend off all forms of authoritarianism from China.” (Interview from @niccijsmith @Telegraph)
2055
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4. Not to mention that he was berated for any "negative" China coverage. Staffs from Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission even warned him that his reporting violated China's laws, which "spreads rumours and illegal, harmful information which endangered state security."
2056
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2/ Business circles, banks, lawyers and scholars fear that the law will introduce Chinese styled snitching culture and censorship to HK. It's foreseeable that more companies are forced to kowtow to Beijing once the law is implemented in HK.
2057
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3/ Also, Xi praises the superiority of the authoritarian regimes over democracies through propaganda programmes, and bends international communities to his political will. In other words, the authoritarian threat is at their doorstep, which is why they stand with Hong Kong.
2058
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2/ According to the latest poll, 64% of the city’s population opposes #China’s blackbox #nationalsecuritylegislation that completely bypasses local legislative scrutiny. However, Beijing chooses to ignore all critics and turns #HK into another Mainland city.
2059
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Age of arrested person
18 or below: 1199
19-30: 4608
31-40 754
41-50: 338
51-60: 192
61 or above: 74
In a city with merely 7 million people, nearly 10000 are under arrest, mostly under age 18. When the youngest one is only 11, what msg is Beijing sending to our next generations?
2060
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11/ My former colleague @chowtingagnes has just been arrested for violating the national security law, even though she quit the democracy group Demosisto, stopped her lobbying work and took down her Twitter account before the law went into effect.
2061
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2062
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2/ It overrode the local courts’ interpretation and rulings, supervise HKgov’s policing, collect intelligence and intervene in Hong Kong affairs directly. Beyond any doubt, the law will punch a hole in the city’s independent judicial system.
2063
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5/ *Standing with Hong Kong: An Interview with Joshua Wong, authors of #UnfreeSpeech, discuss free speech in Hong Kong, coronavirus, and the role of literature in campaigning for global democracy: pentransmissions.com/2020/03/31/sta…
More about my book: hyperurl.co/unfreespeech
2064
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2/ In fact, #nationalsecuritylaw will affect all netizens since #China has a long history of regarding critical voices on social media as a threat to its national security. It has imposed the most restrictive cybersecurity rules & clamped down on the flow of information in China.
2065
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Emperor Xi is keen on forcing HK onto a path very much resembled Eastern Europe during the communist rule. However, I think resistance will carry on in the dark.
We don’t do things because it has a great chance to succeed, we do because it is the right thing and it makes sense.
2066
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3/ In the coming months, I will be facing a maximum of 5 years in jail for unauthorized assembly and up to one ridiculous year for wearing a mask in protest. But prison bars would never stop me from activism and thinking critically.
2067
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[WTH is going on in HK?]
While Beijing used the coronavirus to suppress protest with aggressive measures, it is my pleasure to explain with @dpletka & @marcthiessen from @AEI that why it’s more important than ever that the world stands with HK.
aei.org/multimedia/wth…
2068
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2.3/ It is by far the strongest criticism made among former public officers. Though these limited opposing opinion would not be able to prevent Beijing from doing so.
2069
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The masks with ASTM Level 1/2/3 are fairly enough. I have found some potential models listed as follows:
- SafeMask Tailor made / Premier (by Medicom)
- Nexcare (by 3M)
- The lite one (by Halyard)
- Isofluid (by Crosstex)
2070
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3/ The latest decision effectively bans disqualified candidates from running in upcoming elections, basically sweeping all prospective democratic candidates out of the door. But more worrying is a plot paving ways put more democratic activists under the National Security Law.
2071
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2. From growing unexamined ties with China, censored articles to expelled students, It is worrying that autonomy of Australia's universities now faces intensifying erosions.
2072
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What is particularly shocking about this retaliatory move, after the Trump administration took action against several Chinese Communist Party-controlled outlets, is that for the first time, those foreign correspondents are also barred from reporting from Hong Kong and Macau.
2073
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1/ Hong Kong police force has just announced to import 3,932 sets of tactical suits from a French company #Protecop. With its headquarters in Paris, Protecop is a defence manufacturer, who provides tailor-made protective equipment for police officers worldwide.
2074
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2075
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3/ For a long time, fleeing by sea has been commonly associated with countries grappling with armed conflicts and repression, as with Syria, Libya and Myanmar. It’s tragic that another is set to join them.
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