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Will #PresidentXi banned those games I played and promoted on Twitter? 😱
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1. Hong Kong stand with our freedom-loving friends in Thailand against Chinese bullying! #nnevvy
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3. I had no access to my phone or a lawyer. Communication was difficult, and the authorities kept replying "no" to my questions. I distinctly remember one of them telling me: "You should know this is Thailand, just like China, not the same as Hong Kong."
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2. Four years ago, I went to Bangkok for speaking events at Chulalongkorn University and Thammasat University. But the Thai government blacklisted me at Beijing's request and detained me from Suvarnabhumi Airport for over 12 hours. hongkongfp.com/2016/10/06/jos…
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5. Someone else in the cell could use his phone, and alerted my friends by msging @demosisto's FB page. For a while I thought I might be imprisoned for years. Thankfully I was sent home. I'll never forget the activists who waited for me at the terminal, raising their umbrellas.
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4. It was one of my scariest experiences ever: foreign country, foreign language. I also thought of the infamous cross-border abduction of Gui Minhai — one of the five missing Causeway Bay booksellers — from Thailand to China in 2015. theguardian.com/world/2015/dec…
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6. Over the past few days, Vachirawit Chiva-aree (Bright)'s girlfriend has been accused for advocating Taiwanese independence. Thai netizens came to their defense and also showed an overwhelming support for Hong Kong. I've been so moved.
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8. Bright's fans adore him for his popular romantic TV drama, 2gether: The Series, about the story of a gay couple. They're young and progressive, obviously not blindly pro-government (unlike their counterparts in China). The exchange shows what Chinese nationalists can't grasp.
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7. Angry Chinese nationalists think they can attack the Thai people by attacking the Thai regime. But the King of Thailand is especially unpopular: Rather than combating the Wuhan virus, he has been hiding in a German hotel with 20 women! nypost.com/2020/03/30/kin…
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9. Of course the Thai youth supports Taiwan, the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage, just as progressives around the world should, my friend @jeffreychngo has argued. This is most important at a time when it faces exclusion by the WHO. dissentmagazine.org/article/island…
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10. The Vietnamese people — having endured decades of racism, imperialism and geopolitical oppression from China — have likewise long been standing up for Hong Kong, even as the Vietnamese government is reluctant to say anything pro-democracy.
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11. This incident is giving me a lot of hope in youth activism and transnational social engagement. Perhaps we can build a new kind of pan-Asian solidarity that opposes all forms of authoritarianism. ขอบคุณ!!! 💪💪💪
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Our Thai friends are so creative and funny! See you guys on #AnimalCrossing — less mad Chinese nationalists there! #nnevvy twitter.com/KunKaaaaaa/sta…
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Wow, didn't know I'm single-handedly responsible for so many "conspiracies": first banning #AnimalCrossing in China, and now, disguised as Thai just to spread "fake rumors" about the Wuhan Virus's origin, advocate HK/TW independence and infiltrate Weibo 🤣🤣🤣 #驚天大陰謀 twitter.com/G_Jin_orz/stat…
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Someone even sent me this yesterday.........
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[Vlog with @SunnyCheungky: youtu.be/bAiba7SXiTA]
1/ Success of HK & Taiwan in containing the spread of coronavirus, was heavily due to distrust towards HKGov & China after tragic SARS outbreak in 2003. As a result, HKers respond to pandemic instantly with little hesitation.
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Great decision. Controlled by authoritarian #China, the WHO is more interested in the politics of excluding democratic #Taiwan than saving lives. Here's the truth: The more you distrust it (like the Taiwanese and us Hong Kongers) the more likely you can contain the Wuhan virus. twitter.com/Independent/st…
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This one-minute excerpt of @yvonne_tg's brilliant interview with a top WHO official last month is as powerful as it gets. twitter.com/nathanlawkc/st…
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Agreed with my friend Wang Dan here. Americans might view Trump's decision through partisan lens, but as I've always said, on Hong Kong — and, likewise, Taiwan/China — it's not a matter of right or left, but of right or wrong. Defunding the WHO is absolutely right. twitter.com/wangdan1989/st…
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The UN is another case in point. In 1971, it kicked out Taiwan. In 1972, it removed Hong Kong from the official List of Non-Self-Governing Territories, so we'd have no referendum to decide our future. This is all great-power politics over the right of self-determination.
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My years of activism have been devoted to building transnational solidarity. But that doesn't mean placing blind trust in institutions like the WHO that care more about protecting the interests of nation-states over, you know, the interests of actual people.
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The WHO is an arm of Chinese diplomacy under the guise of liberal internationalism or global governance. Transnational cooperation is of course crucial to combating pandemics, but the institution in question is the anthesis of it, as the shunning of Taiwan makes painfully clear. twitter.com/RepJimBanks/st…
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#Taiwan > the WHO! t.co/V5OdeQZwAx
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1/ HKGov didn't provide the necessary information to combat the coronavirus. They're unwilling to request people to wear masks at early stages of the epidemic. Thankfully, HKers have learnt that Gov doesn't provide credible information & was fully aware that #selfhelp is needed.
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