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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 twitter.com/chowtingagnes/…
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2. Wonderful story by @BBC on how I was tailed by 3 unknown cars and 1 motorbike on the day that I applied to run for #HK legislature. bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-…
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2/ In the past, Hong Kong has firewalls to fend off the political influence from China, such as guarantees of human rights protections, an independent judiciary and loose business regulations. These are the reasons why businesses choose Hong Kong as the destination of investment.
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[HKers will never surrender because we have nowhere else to turn] patreon.com/posts/41092885
Even as some of my compatriots have left the island, faced with the possibility of extradition to China, I still decide to keep on the fight.
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🇰🇷 중국 본토의 ‘홍콩 보안법’ 제정으로 홍콩 전역은 다시 긴장감이 돌고있는 가운데 시내에서는 벌써 시위가 벌어지기 시작했다. 이런 분위기속에서 전과 달리 강경 진압하는 경찰의 모습이 곳곳에서 목격되고 있다.
antnews.org/news/66984
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McLachlin’s view appears too optimistic to me as we see NPCSC’s power of interpreting Basic Law remains as the Sword of Damocles on judicial independence.
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7/ For example, Israel’s security officials just rejected a bid from CK Hutchison Holdings for the potential security risks of Chinese involvement in plant construction in the disguise of "Hong Kong companies”. ft.com/content/31a900…
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7/ 本当にとても辛い時期、これからどんどんどんどん辛くなるかもしれませんが、引き続き自分の家を守るために、頑張らないといけないという決心もつけましたので、これからも香港人の1人として頑張っていきたいと思います。ありがとうございました。」
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My friends are blocked too now by Lijian Zhao. I think this is Beijing's big weakness. The whole CPC 'business model' is based on mind control, and the CPC lads are so afraid to lose control.
twitter.com/zlj517
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[Conversation with Cardinal Joseph Zen and @FT Asia Editor @JamilAnderlini in Forum 2000]
The lesson in Czechoslovakia and Poland tells us that eventually, total conformity is what an authoritarian regime wants. Isn’t history repeating itself? patreon.com/posts/42731417
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First the @NBA, then came @Disney and now - @Vistaprint. Kowtow to Beijing should not be the way out. twitter.com/hkdc_us/status…
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[Never Forget Never Forgive]
@nathanlawkc, @ChuHoiDick, @JannelleRLeung, @tiffanyykw, Lester Shum, Gwyneth @KwaiLamHo, @SunnyCheungky and I hold candles as we joined others for a vigil to remember the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre at Victoria Park.
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3. Under #China's law, suspects can be released on bail. But in reality, especially when all the #asylumseekers may face further charges under #China's #nationalsecuritylaw and other criminal laws, the chance of bail is slim.
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Putin investigators targeting LGBTQs, Navalny, use Israeli phone-hacking tech haaretz.com/israel-news/te…
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[Joshua Wong & @KwongGlacier: Let Taiwan into @WHO & stop indulging Beijing – lives depend on it]
Allowing Taiwan into the WHO could save tens of thousands of lives from a virus which came from China & grew into a pandemic because of Beijing’s lies.
hongkongfp.com/2020/04/22/let…
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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.