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Taiwan cannot even call itself ‘Taiwan’ at major sporting events. Instead, it must use the title ‘Chinese Taipei’.
Young democracies, like Taiwan, are under pressure. They’re forced into playing a game where the rules are rigged in favor of totalitarian regimes like #CCPChina🇨🇳
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Ahead of the Legislative Council “elections,” Hong Kong’s bauhinia insignia was replaced by the Chinese emblem in the legislature’s main chamber. The removal of the bauhinia insignia hints that this chamber is now officially a Chinese legislature, not HK’s.hongkongfp.com/2021/12/17/in-…
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Hong Kong police officially ban Tiananmen Massacre park vigil for second successive year
“We are asking Hong Kong people to light a candle at 8 pm, wherever you are. It’s a different way of organising,” said Hong Kong Alliance’s vice-chair @zouxingtong.
hongkongfp.com/2021/05/27/bre…
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Hong Kong Says Vote—or Else: China fears a boycott of the sham vote it will hold next month.
“Authorities issued arrest warrants for pro-democracy exiles who used social media to recommend that Hong Kongers boycott sham legislative elections in December.”
wsj.com/articles/hong-…
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On 8.23.1989, a human chain linking Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia was formed by 2 million people—this was “The Baltic Way”.
On 8.23.2019, on its 30th anniversary, “The Hong Kong Way” (香港之路) was formed by over 210,000 Hong Kongers.
#StandWithHongKong
youtu.be/6pqXATndXtY
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Old Hong Kong → New Hong Kong twitter.com/rachel_cheung1…
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China’s in a Catch-22 over the WTA’s #PengShuai challenge
“We've got so accustomed to international businesses cowering to the #CCP🇨🇳 for market access, we lost sense of what it should be like, so an act of integrity [by @WTA] is viewed as extraordinary.”
qz.com/2097286/wta-pu…
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"If Apple Daily still existed, would the front page look something like this?"
Some people handed out this #AppleDaily🍎 art print flyer, imagining what the front page might have looked like today on July 1st 2021, if Apple Daily were to exist.
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“It was you who taught me that peaceful marches are useless.” (2019) twitter.com/MoreThanPol/st…
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Worth reading for HK families
“Cantonese no longer feels natural, and sometimes even feels ridiculous, for me to speak. My parents and I have no heart-to-heart conversations, no mutual understanding, on top of cultural & generational gaps to reckon with.”
newyorker.com/culture/person…
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Hong Kong passes film censorship law to ‘safeguard national security’
The government can revoke a film’s licence if it is “found to be contrary to national security interests.”
Penalties for showing unapproved films: up to 3 years in jail and HK$1M fine.
reuters.com/article/hongko…
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A “Study Abroad in America” advertisement right next to a National Security Law promotion poster 🙃 twitter.com/cwhung125/stat…
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According to the survey, many countries still view HK as Innovative, Dynamic, Enterprising, Resilient, etc. — hallmarks of Hongkongers’ qualities and values.
But one has to be living in a box to think that HK is Secure, Democratic, Stable, Free and Safe.
factwire.org/en/negative-vi…
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Stand News published an important column about the challenges of preserving an accurate account of Hong Kong's movement on @Wikipedia
As references to RTHK, AppleDaily, etc disappear from the web, entries could change to reflect CCP🇨🇳's version of history.thestandnews.com/politics/back-…
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As you can see, via its propaganda mouthpiece Global Times, #CCPChina🇨🇳 is threatening the American film industry. Their message is simple: make sure this Hong Kong protest documentary doesn't win an Oscar, or “face a heavy loss in the Chinese film market.”
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It is an old tradition that we go show respect to the dead in the spring, we call it "Tomb Sweeping Day"
However, now in #NewNormal Hong Kong, even going to pay respect to the dead is a criminal offense.
And if a reporter goes report about it, it may amount to seditions!
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Thank you, #AppleDaily🍎
Photo: @StandNewsHK
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A member of @Stand_with_HK visited the Lithuanian 🇱🇹 parliament this week to keep Hong Kong on the agenda, and participated in a High Level Forum on global democracies. We met with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis (@GLandsbergis) in Vilnius, Lithuania's capital.
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We will never forget. twitter.com/ZColemanHK/sta…
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The UK government must ensure Hongkongers will not be attacked and intimated by pro CCP organisations and gangs in the UK.
Racism is an issue we must all work together to tackle, but at the same time we mustn’t let this issue to be manipulated by people with ill intentions. twitter.com/nathanlawkc/st…
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6.12 Rally in Tokyo outside of Shinjuku Station 🇯🇵✊🏼 twitter.com/uryuhirano/sta…
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Grandma Wong is our hero.
She never gives up.
#StandWithHongKong
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A Hong Kong protest photo exhibition in a small town in Normandy, France🇨🇵
Exhibition called “Ils ne peuvent pas tous nous tuer” (They can't kill us all), featuring HK-based French photographer Charlène Flores en.charlenemflores.com
Rue Victor Lecesne📍 goo.gl/maps/YsyqLswHJ…
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Slovenian🇸🇮 Prime Minister Janez Jansa called Taiwan a “democratic country” and said that Slovenia is in talks with Taiwan to open trade offices in each other’s territory.
Slovenia is the latest EU🇪🇺 nation with plans to strengthen trade ties with Taiwan.
politico.eu/article/jansa-…
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“It happened overnight”
Two young filmmakers behind new documentary When a City Rises—which archives the 2019 HK pro-democracy protests—speak about the pervasive fear in their city as China continues its crackdown on freedom of speech and civil liberties.
skynews.com.au/world-news/chi…
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