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Today’s the day HK’s election was scheduled for before being postponed by at least a year, and a rally is due to kick off in Kowloon to protest the move.
Thousands of police are patrolling the area. My bus across the harbour was boarded by officers who searched everyone’s bags.
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Out today, the latest episode of BBC’s The Compass radio documentary series spends close to half of its running time in Hong Kong (PolyU and HKU) to discuss the issue of free speech and its limitations on university campuses.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…
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Hongkongers in Taipei are making the third anniversary of the 12 June 2019 protest today with a march, a rally, and—briefly—flag-burning at the Bank of China steps. They say the struggle has moved overseas but it is not over.
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China has really overstepped this time. Thanks to their stunning pettiness with the NBA and South Park’s "Band in China" episode, the issue of exported Chinese censorship has been catapulted to the national conversation in the US. We could look back on this as a watershed moment. twitter.com/CNN/status/118…
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According to Apple Daily and Golden live streamers, there are “over a hundred” undercover police dressed as protesters at Kowloon Bay’s Telford Plaza shopping mall right now.
That’s pushing four times the number of actual protesters in Landmark North, Sheung Shui this afternoon.
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It is urban warfare in Tsuen Wan right now. Tear gas, rubber bullets, petrol bombs, bricks and more.
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“[The govt is] left with so little legitimacy and social capital that citizens simply no longer believe it will act in their interests.”
HK’s handing of the #coronavirus crisis would be bad for any city; for a modern, global metropolis that weathered SARS, it’s an embarrassment. twitter.com/mbrookerhk/sta…
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「台灣不再是『亞細亞的孤兒』。」
“Taiwan is no longer the ‘Orphan of Asia.’” - Pres. Tsai @iingwen
One of the most memorable lines, for me, from the President’s National Day address, after acknowledging the increasing global support and vaccine donations Taiwan has received.
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These designs for a new Taiwan passport cover, up for public vote by the New Power Party, are really impressive.
The results aren’t binding but follow the passing of a resolution to emphasise Taiwan over China in the passport design and national airline.
taiwanpassport.tw/vote/internati…
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Look at this fleet of supports and kind-hearted strangers trying to get protesters out of the Tsing Ma Bridge toll plaza and #backhome safe.
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This is worse than it looks.
Even a normal baton strike (i.e. to the thighs/forearms) would be against regulation, as it is reserved for meeting “active aggression.”
But leaked police training manuals show that a strike to the head is in fact “deadly force”—same as firearm use. twitter.com/leungjasminee/…
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Hong Kong’s Commerce and Economic Development Bureau is now engaging in a political struggle session against the city’s most trusted news service, public broadcaster @rthk_enews, after journalist @yvonne_tg questioned a top @WHO official about the UN agency’s exclusion of Taiwan. twitter.com/creery_j/statu…
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Tonight officers under the newly-established nat'l security branch of the HK police are rounding up teenagers for “inciting others to separatism,” which many attribute to a single FB post on Sunday: facebook.com/10339838766766…
This is why the NSL is also called the “insecurity law." twitter.com/studentlocalis…
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A: 100%.
Two thieves impersonating plainclothes police stole over $200k from a man last night during a “stop and search” just around the corner from Tuen Mun Police Station.
thestandnews.com/society/%E5%85… twitter.com/LeoAW/status/1…
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This isn’t even Orchid Island, it’s Sanxiantai in Taitung.
These people claim Taiwan as their property yet know absolutely nothing about it. It reminds me of “Formosa Betrayed” when the mainlander put in charge of Taiwan’s pineapple industry couldn’t even recognise a pineapple.
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This is what Hong Kong already looks like *without* a national security law. twitter.com/ShibaniMahtani…
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So proud to have won the Human Rights Press Award for Investigative Feature Writing for our work examining the Hong Kong Police Force's misconduct and ongoing unaccountability. It was an honour to work with @ShibaniMahtani, @TMclaughlin3 and Tiffany Liang on this important story. twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/…
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Behold the racing outfits on display at today’s #HKstreetathon, one of the first road running competitions since the outbreak of the city’s pro-democracy protest movement not to have been cancelled.
Photos courtesy of Stands News and AM730.
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Tear gas fired on Hong Kong protesters marching between Causeway Bay and Wan Chai to oppose national security legislation that threatens to end One Country, Two Systems.
The first tear gas of the post-COVID season and what will not only be a long day but another summer of rage.
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Hong Kong students are magic. Change my mind.
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Over 100 police officers currently raiding the newsroom of pro-democracy newspaper @appledaily_hk following arrest of @JimmyLaiApple and other senior staff. Apple Daily is only the major newspaper in the city to buck Beijing’s authority and openly support the democracy movement. twitter.com/hkcnews_com/st…
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Extremely concerning that @aimenlau has had her account permanently suspended for “platform manipulation and spam”—especially when the only “amplification” she’s engaged in is retweeting #A4Revolution #ChinaProtests content.
If there’s anyone even left @TwitterSupport, fix this.
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She is going to lose her mind when she finds out how many Japanese restaurants there are here. twitter.com/SpokespersonCH…
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After all the ink spilled in the West about the unstoppable “march of authoritarianism” worldwide maybe we ought to be writing more about how the people of HK and Taiwan stood their ground and pushed right back this year.
And maybe the rest of the world ought to be behind them.
Managing Editor @cnmediaproject 中國傳媒研究計劃主編