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10/ Italian foreign minister Luigi Di Maio has criticised china which is insightful. I hope the Italian foreign minister can support our democratic aspirations in Hong Kong, as democracy is the only way to de-escalate the situation and maintain prosperity and stability in HK.
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8/ Hong Kong police have imported 129 Daily HI-MATIC model patrol cars from Italian manufacturer Iveco in 2017. As countless news reports show, patrol cars were used to crash to Hong Kong protesters. I urged the Italian government to stop selling patrol cars to Hong Kong.
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11/ President Xi Jinping proclaimed that HK movement would end in "crushed bodies and shattered bones". CCP urged legislation of national security laws. It's worth noting that Beijing tries to frame the movement as "terrorism", the same thing that they do to Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
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12/ Therefore, it is expected the similar model of repression will take part in Hong Kong. There is no exaggeration to say "Xinjiang today, Hong Kong tomorrow."
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[Climate change & HK - China is reacting similarly to both]
1/ @GretaThunberg was named #TIMEPOY by the @TIME. She's a Swedish Schoolgirl that inspired #FridaysForFuture against climate change. She's regarded as the figure of the power of youth, and inspired many, including me.
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2/ I applaud for her statement “We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.” There is a future where Greta and I will live long enough to see, and we are responsible to shape it into a desirable one.
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3/ When world cheer & appalled for youth standing up against threats of climate change or dictatorship, we actually all play a role in the fights. No man is an island. We 're all living here today, and we will be living here tmr as well. It's not only up to the youngsters.
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4/ Some people are respectable because they indeed did something great and conquered the limitations of humanity— being selfless, leading an Europe-wide climate change campaign, sacrificing their future and even their lived for the sake of fundamental human rights.
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5/ These figures hope to encourage more people to do the same to really address the issues. It is not up to a few people to resolve problems that requires collective effort.
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6/ Climate Change and the fight for democracy in HK share some similarities. Both of them cannot be resolved simply by the handwork of one place, and China has to be held responsible for both issues, and China’s response to them appears to be similar as well.
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7/ Greenhouse gas emissions by China are the largest in the world. It is found by scientific research that global warming cannot be kept below 2 °C unless the emission of greenhouse gas in China falls sharply.
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9/ However, when China were asked publicly about this, its response is simply “China is a developing countries and it is in desperate needs of economic development”. This clearly shows China does not take the pledge it made in the global arena as promises it has to fulfil.
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8/ China emitted over 12 gigatonnes (Gt) CO2eq of greenhouse gases and makes up almost 30% of the world total. And in 2018-2019, the emissions shows an increasing trend, contrary to the promise China made in the Copenhagen Accord and Paris Agreement.
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10/ China made a Joint-Declaration together with Britain before Handover of HK to promised “1Country2System” and universal suffrage for HK in 1984. It is bounded Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which is an international agreement governing treaties between states.
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11/ Now it is clear that China is unwilling to keep its promise, and worse still, China has recently declared the Joint-Declaration to be invalid on its own. The Joint-Declaration was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance, China said.
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13/ Greta & participants of the strike alone can never hold China responsible for breaking its promise. HK’s youth along can never hold China responsible for violating international treaties. The world has to stand in solidarity to be able to achieve results.
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12/ The two examples illustrate that China is never trustworthy and do not take any rules into consideration. It will simply do anything it wants, no matter what are the norms and regulations that it should follow. It takes more than just the youth to address the problem.
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14/ @GretaThunberg, let's forces China to comply to the norms that all players in the world ought to, for environmental justice and freedom that we all cherish.
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2/ It is well known that Germany has taken a leading role in Libya and served as a key mediator to help end the conflict. When western democracies make efforts to make peace, China abuses this mechanism and force the world to keep silence on human rights issues and HK matters.
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[My comment on UN Security Council statement unexpectedly omitted the phrase ‘Berlin process’]
1/ I find entirely absurd & utterly alarming that 🇨🇳 flexes its muscles in 🇺🇳 & denies 🇩🇪 credit by chopping its contributions to Libya just because @HeikoMaas held a meeting with me.
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3/ It is beyond doubt that China is not a responsible player in world politics. Beijing is just more obsessed with suppressing dissidence against itself than the peacemaking efforts in Libya.
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4/ Worse still, China begins to abuse global bodies like the UN Security Council as leverage to expand its political intimidation and censorship regime worldwide, putting western core values in jeopardy.
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5/ Today, Beijing threats the world to remain silence on Hong Kong. Tomorrow, the same thing happens on its despicable treatments of Uighurs. How long is the world going to keep silent?
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6/ I urged world leaders can stand against China’s reckless threat and speak up for human rights issues and freedoms in Hong Kong, because those are the values that we all cherish.
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7/ We need you to sign on this petition: Stopp der humanitären Krise in Hongkong mit sofortigen konkreten Maßnahmen durch die Bundesregierung vom epetitionen.bundestag.de/content/petiti…
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