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1/ "I play the game, I just bought it a few days ago. For lots of people around the world who play this game, they have to put their ideal life into the game, and for HKers, we have to put our protest movement and our protest sites inside the game."
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Animal Crossing is Fast Becoming a New Way for Hong Kong Protesters to Fight for Democracy! The #Covid_19 pandemic has halted public demonstrations, so protesters are taking their cause to #AnimalCrossing.
usgamer.net/articles/anima…
(This is my island!)
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1/ Under China’s autocratic regime, censorship has become commonplace. Whilst whistleblower doctors are detained for telling the truth, and critical voices on social media are suppressed, literature is permanent activism. It resists China’s attempt to rewrite the history.
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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
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3/ All these imperil the civil liberties that global democracies rest upon. In our global battle against tyranny, HK is at the forefront. The HK movement demonstrates the possibility of saying no to authoritarianism.
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4/ To hold these global human rights abusers to account, Hongkongers also call on the wider world to put forward an effective human-rights sanction regime.
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Could you speak a bit more about how HK context relates to a global context, and to liberties that are threatened internationally?
1/ In recent years, autocratic regimes like have China started to extend their tentacles worldwide, towards the retreat of global democracy.
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2/ With its swelling economic clout, China pressures the business world to take its side; attacks critics of its human-rights abuses, such as ‘re-education camps’ for Uyghurs; and jeopardises universities’ autonomy through the Confucius Institute programme.
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I call on @WHO to take neutral, professional stance facilitating Taiwan’s full participation and contributions. mofa.gov.tw/en/News_Conten…
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APPG on HK decided to undertake a full international inquiry into possible violations of human rights and humanitarian principles by the police, specifically in regards to its treatment of medical workers, in HK since the start of the 2019 protests.
hkinquiry.org
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Wash your hands!
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4.4/ Nevertheless, the coronavirus does not kill the movement, but rather adds more fuels to the public anger. According to Reuters' poll, support for protesters has grown even though rallies pause. More people demand our city leader to step down, from 57% in Dec to 63% in March.
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2.4/ Czech, Dutch, Spanish and Turkish governments have found the China-made masks and test kits fail to meet safety standards. In other words, those Chinese mask manufacturers are now earning money at the expense of others' safety.
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3.1/ The number of confirmed cases should be higher than Italy since Beijing have tried every means to keep the number of confirmed cases low. Chinese hospitals now deny new admission of new patients and refuse to give virus test in order to achieve a zero case day.
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2.3/ However, masks or healthcare production is not an ordinary industry. It is a matter of life and death. Most of the Chinese masks or other medical kits are gradually found substandard or counterfeited.
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1.3/ To retain his reputation and erase China's bad image, state-run media in China have been projecting China as the global hero with extreme nationalist colour in the past few weeks. Therefore, helping Italy is just part of a bigger plan.
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1.1/ China's empathy with #Italy is political hypocrisy since the face mask diplomacy is just part of China's Overseas Propaganda campaign, which includes rewriting history, obscuring the source of the virus, painting China as a global hero by delivering medical aids abroad.
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1.2/ More importantly, praising the superiority of China over the western liberal democracies. This narrative is tightly connected to President Xi Jinping's personality cult, as his authority has been deeply challenged since the outbreak.
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Well......
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8/ During this dismal situation, people of Italy and Hong Kong are all fighting a war on this deadly virus. We Hongkongers all stand with everyone in Italy. I am sure that we all can get through this difficult times before long.
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7/ Quartz today reported that China is now buying up Italy. If the Italian government fails to guard the nation against China's autocratic ambitions, the consequence of losing sovereignty and autonomy will be more disastrous.
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6/ Beyond any doubt, China is now leveraging masks for political influence. And insincere generosity has a price. Last year Chinese embassy just openly criticized Italian parliamentarians for holding meetings to support HK, more like treating Italy as another province of China.
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5/ Through misinformation and fake news, China tramples upon other nation's dignity, threatens other's safety with cover-ups and lies, and even put the sincerity of its government aid into doubt.
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4/ Last week China's state mouthpieces Global Times, CCTV and China News just lied to the public by claiming that the virus has been widely spread in Italy even before Wuhan's outbreak. The government also said that China donated masks to Italy for free.
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3/ Not to mention that 80% of COVID-19 tests that Czech brought from China give fake results. All censored information by China may lead to another wave of contagion and threaten other countries' life and death. Besides, China is now busy shaping the narrative by blaming others.
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