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Senior Hong Kong police officials who held commanding positions during the #721YuenLongTerrorAttack have since been promoted. #PoliceState
thestandnews.com/society/721-%E…
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Does this remind you of another country? 🇨🇳 twitter.com/b_judah/status…
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SCMP = South CCP🇨🇳 Morning Post twitter.com/lokmantsui/sta…
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Germany and China at a crossroads: A detailed analysis of 🇩🇪🇨🇳’s economic relationship by @dwnews
Under Merkel, 🇩🇪 believed that “by engaging with China, we can encourage it to open up politically” but what happened to HK has put all that in doubt.
Video youtu.be/3UN99-3kJ_Y
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Why Britain is so attractive to thousands fleeing Hong Kong?
A year after the Government's visa scheme gave them a route to the UK, thousands are arriving every week, ready to become model citizens.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/3…
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Amazon agreed to allow only five-star reviews for Xi’s book in China
Obviously, everything in #CCPChina🇨🇳 must have “five stars” (🇨🇳).
thetimes.co.uk/article/amazon…
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She was loved for standing up to China. She may die in jail.
The story of Claudia Mo is also that of 🇨🇳Beijing’s tightening grip on #HongKong
ft.com/content/439fb0…
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China Bans Effeminate Men From TV
The #CCP🇨🇳 banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters to promote “revolutionary culture,” broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official morality.
npr.org/2021/09/02/103…
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China's foreign minister warned Japan against being influenced by countries with “prejudices against China” and reminded his counterpart @moteging🇯🇵 that while Japan has an alliance with the U.S. it also has signed a peace and friendship treaty with China. wsj.com/articles/japan…
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Security officials in one of China's largest provinces have commissioned a surveillance system they say they want to use to track journalists and international students among other “suspicious people”
Suspicious people: activists, rights lawyers, citizens.reuters.com/technology/exc…
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Congratulations to @AntGiacchino @AliceDoyard for winning best documentary short at #Oscars for #Colette!
Colette Marin-Catherine was a resistance fighter in Nazi-occupied France during WW2.
75 years later, she visits the concentration camp where the Nazis killed her brother.
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The US will soon announce diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics. According to sources, the White House is expected to announce that neither Biden nor any other US gov't officials will attend the Beijing Games.
#BoycottBeijingOlympics #BoycottBeijing2022
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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Hong Kong’s independent journalists are now on their own, writes @rachel_cheung1.
“When I left my last job, there were still things I could achieve and places I could go. But if you ask me now, I truly don’t know how I can continue as a journalist.”
worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/30…
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‘Do We Need to Be in Hong Kong?’ Global Companies Are Eying the Exits
Figure from Asian Tigers, a relocation firm serving international executives: “Moves into Hong Kong have declined 50% since 2019, while moves out increased by 30%”
wsj.com/articles/hong-…
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Plunging 🇷🇺 Ruble and sanctions prompt Russia to use Chinese currency
Russian banks are now offering 🇨🇳 Yuan bank accounts. Credit cards are switching over from Visa to China’s UnionPay system.
#CCPChina🇨🇳’s support will only prolong the war in Ukraine🇺🇦
telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/…
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“No Name Political Prisoners”: Interviews with protesters who went through Hong Kong's jail system.
“With the political suppression in HK, I'm simply transferred from a small jail to a larger ‘jail’. I won't leave HK. I grew up here and this is my home.”
youtu.be/R8i6LksKEic
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Taiwan sends 27 tonnes of medical supplies to #Ukraine🇺🇦
reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
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Hong Kong was once considered Asia’s movie capital, dubbed time and again as the “Hollywood of the East” twitter.com/XinqiSu/status…
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Four leading newspapers from the Nordic countries join in a protest against China’s violation of freedom of the press in Hong Kong. The protest follows the closure of #AppleDaily🍎 newspaper and their joint letter published today on #CCP100🇨🇳 anniversary.
politiken.dk/udland/art8271…
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Hong Kong: RSF deplores the suffocation to death of Apple Daily, one of the last major Chinese-language media critical of the Beijing regime
rsf.org/en/news/hong-k…
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I Translated Articles for Apple Daily. Can I Go Home to Hong Kong?
“Since May 2020, I have led a small team that translated Apple Daily’s editorials and opinions from Chinese to English so that the publication can reach a global audience.”
wsj.com/articles/i-tra…
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AI is a key tool for #CCP🇨🇳 to maintain control. More data makes them more powerful.
"We placed the emotion detection camera 3m from the subject. It's similar to a lie detector but far more advanced technology."
"Uyghur life is now about generating data."bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
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“Although the election committee will be expanded from current 1200 to 1500 seats, district councillors will lose all 117 places they currently have.”
It's no longer about the sheep but rather about the number of foxes vs lions that get to decide HK's CE:
twitter.com/Stand_with_HK/…
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🇯🇵 HongKongers in Shibuya Crossing on 2022.7.2
#StandWithHongKong twitter.com/StandwithHK_JP…
An independent, crowdfunded advocacy group. Founded by a collective of individuals who have come together to fight for freedom for #HongKong.