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[Visas are only a lifeboat for Hong Kong. You must stand up to China] Joshua Wong tells Ben Machell that Beijing needs to learn that its power has limits.
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[My calls to Canada Government]
1/ Olympics should be more than just flexing politic muscles but also expressing our respect for human rights. This year is the first time that host countries are required to ensure human rights protections.
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5/ Worse still, HKGov just claimed that national security is not part of the city's autonomy and entirely under charge of CCP. Beijing is literally imposing a CCP-led secret police agency to enforce China’s law in the territory of HK that threatens HK's judiciary independence.
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6/ To protect the city's autonomy and the Canadian interests in this global financial city, I call upon the Canadian Government to reconsider Hong Kong's special treatment and take all necessary actions to oppose the national security law.
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Han Kuo-yu, who's aligned himself with authoritarian China's interest, has been booted as mayor of #Kaohsiung by democratic vote. A great victory for #democracy and a clear message from Taiwanese saying "no" to Xi Jinping and Beijing's influence on #Taiwan.
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1/ When the world criticizes Beijing for scraping its promise and imposing the national security law on HK, @dwnews Chinese reports that Germany’s foreign minister @HeikoMaas said Germany would not take strong actions.
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2/ If it is the case, I am utterly disappointed about German Gov’s unprincipled response towards evil law. Even though I entirely understand that German may have concerns about sanctions, but it doesn't mean that Germany has to wholly ignorant of domestic & foreign concerns...
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3/ ...and uncritically kowtow to Beijing when China is now tearing up its UN-filed Joint Declaration. More importantly, the law is unilaterally imposed and implemented by a government with deteriorating human rights records. That is a fact that no one can deny.
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4/ Especially when commerce chambers like BDI and European Union Chamber of Commerce in China have already warned of the grave consequences, it is just scandalous if Berlin fails to take any action to urge China to withdraw the law.
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5/ The world should be shocked by a slight glance at how Beijing uses the law in Mainland China - Booksellers and liberal writers like Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo were put into prison in the name of national security.
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6/ Citizen reporters like TanZuoren were put into prison in the name of national security. Religious groups & pastors like Wang Yi were put into in the name of national security. Bloggers that just mentioned Umbrella Movement were put into prison in the same of national security.
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7/ When Beijing is introducing this ambiguously defined law, unchecked enforcement practices and a Gestapo-like national security branch in the territory of Hong Kong, does Germany still believe that it can remain business as usual with China?
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8/ Rather than putting dollar signs above democratic values, Germany should play an assertive global role in protecting civil liberties worldwide. To safeguard HK’s freedoms & foreign interests, I once again call upon the German Gov to urge China to withdraw the bill.
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9/ Also, Consider all necessary measures such as ruling out Huawei’s involvement in the local market. If Berlin remains silent on China’s reckless move, the world’s liberty will face a death blow after the fall of Hong Kong and then Taiwan.
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The imposition of national security law on HK is China’s hideous scheme not only to distract the world from holding China accountable for COVID-19 but also to eliminate the possibility of HKers being whistleblowers to reveal China’s global ambition behind the pandemic.
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2/ At about 8PM, we and our friends discovered a white-coloured car parked in the San Po Kong area. There was something suspicious about it. Three hours later, after we left our meeting, we found out that we were each being tailed by a group of four. So, we confronted them.
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[Joshua Wong & Tiffany Yuen were intensively stalked & filmed]
1/ Last night, while I was walking with District Councillor @tiffanyykw, I realised I was being followed again. Fortunately, I made it back home safely. Everything is fine, for now.
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3/ The people who were snooping on us immediately raised a racket, loudly accusing us of trying to rob them. Finally, they hightailed their way to a taxi & took off, defeated. We noticed that our stalkers, in previous occasions, were all picked up by the same white-coloured car.
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4/ But since we exposed our stalkers, the white car did not even bother to wait—it simply sped off by itself. Stalking, taking pictures, testing limits, and exchanging covert information: all of these tactics are from the national security units’ playbook.
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5/ Maybe this happens all the time in Mainland China, but HK is supposed to be different. After all, the national security law still hasn’t been passed. So why are activists & councillors being monitored every single day?
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6/ Political surveillance with chilling effect, sadly, has become the new reality in HK. Everyone, please take care. Do not go out alone. Stay safe.
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🇮🇳 [Why India should have HK's back?] moneycontrol.com/news/india/why…
1/ As per data, Hong Kong is India's top trading partner with a business worth $4.2 billion as against $2.3 billion with China. Standing up for Hong Kong is in India's interest — both economically and diplomatically.
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2/ Can India open its doors too to these political activists? We have an intimate past with the city since the early 19th century — from Indian soldiers fighting for its security and Indian entrepreneurs adding to the dynamism of Hong Kong's commercial scene.
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What best captures the absurdity of the "ACAB except for the brave Hong Kong police who defend socialism" narrative? The fact that many top-level commanders of the force are, like Rupert Dover, British colonial holdovers. twitter.com/diaocollective…
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We welcome @BorisJohnson’s offer of a path to citizenship to those eligible, but added the ideal situation would be for UK to pressure China into abandoning evil law that could curb dissent in the former British colony. We need to stand up and fight back.
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