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Legendary Hong Kong writer Ni Kuang has passed away aged 87. As well as being the author of over 300 wuxia novels, he was also a fierce critic of the CCP. He once said China’s people would continue suffering as long as the Party remains in existence.
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We spent weeks translating leaked documents, scrutinising 100s of incidents of alleged police brutality, consulting experts, and offering frontline testimony for this comprehensive report.
Please read and share with anyone still wondering why HKers demand an independent inquiry. twitter.com/ShibaniMahtani…
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Just voted in the local primary for pro-democracy candidates for the September LegCo elections, along with many other neighbours similarly undeterred by government warnings that participating might violate the new state Security Law, and last night’s police raid of pollster PORI.
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Everywhere I go in Taipei I signs of solidarity with Hong Kong: a shrine to Alex Chow Tzs-lok and the suicides that have occurred since 12June; a Lennon Wall on the billboard ad for DPP parliamentary candidate; local businesses showing their support for the protest movement.
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Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on today’s mass buying of @appledaily_hk newspapers and shares: “This is probably selective re-reporting by the relevant media. As far as I know... China’s countermeasures have been welcomed by the people of Hong Kong.”
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Taichung’s cavernous Lennon Tunnel, still going strong after two years.
On this heartbreaking day for Taiwan, a poignant reminder that Hong Kong is still in the thoughts and prayers of many here, and as Hongkongers the least we can do right now is return that favour.
#台灣加油!
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Then they came for the writers. twitter.com/krislc/status/…
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As @iingwen meets with US health secretary @SecAzar China sends 10 jets into Taiwan’s air defence zone.
A diplomatic visit versus actual military action infringing int’l boundaries: Which is the party “raising tensions” across the strait? tw.appledaily.com/politics/20200…
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An emergency rally and march is beginning in Chater Garden right now to voice citizens’ opposition to the invocation of emergency powers to ban the wearing of masks at protests. It started very small but has been growing quickly in size and volume. #StandwithHK
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At my alma mater, HKU, students have reinforced their defences overnight and remain on high alert after a few close shaves. This morning University officials negotiated a truce with police, with protesters agreeing not to engage police as long as they don’t try to enter campus.
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Except tonight in Hong Kong it’s called Operation #Backhome. Hundreds of driving are offering their protesters changes of clothes and food and drink as well as safe passage home. This is so heartwarming, easily worth the three-hour walk from the airport.
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The only good way to conclude this thread.
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With HK’s iconic Victoria Park vigil for the victims of Tiananmen Square banned by police for the first time ever, HKers have been seeking other ways to commemorate the dead.
One friend of mine just did this candle-shaped run around the park as her way to keep the flame alive.
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Like a lot of Hongkongers, my family escaped here from China in the hold of a “snake boat” that chugged across the Pearl River estuary to what was then a beacon of hope.
That people are now doing essentially the same to escape this place is unimaginable—or at least it should be.
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Chinese state media is actively spreading disinformation about Taiwan’s COVID-19 outbreak.
Taipei is not experiencing a shortage of beds (cna.com.tw/news/firstnews…) and these were set up not for treatment but for symptomatic patients to await PCR results (news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/brea…). twitter.com/globaltimesnew…
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A Hong Kong history textbook covering the retreat of the ROC to Taiwan has been “corrected” to replace references to “the ROC gov’t led by CKS” with “the KMT led by CKS” so as to reflect mainland orthodoxy that the ROC must not be acknowledged as a gov’t.
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The slew of changes being made to HK's textbooks should be shocking, but is grimly predictable considering the following:
1) Political purges in the education sector washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
2) The Liaison Office’s stranglehold on the publishing industry bloomberg.com/news/features/… twitter.com/HKGlobalConnec…
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For years we’ve been awaiting that Sword of Damocles moment when we can declare HK dead, wondering if it might be better than these years of 滴水穿石 erosion during which we're gaslit, told we’re overreacting to every incremental drip.
Tonight the sword may have finally dropped. twitter.com/SCMPNews/statu…
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Today is, so the calendars say, our National Day—and If I could make one birthday wish on behalf of this "People’s Republic,” it'd be that no more of my fellow HKers need to shed their blood fighting for their future and their freedom. Stay safe, everyone. 香港人加油，萬事小心。
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Everyone trapped inside the stores is now being carded, patted down, and having their bags searched.
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One hour before the today’s protest against the National Security Law is meant to begin, the streets of Causeway Bay are eerily quiet, silence blanketing the city’s biggest shopping district on a public holiday. A dozen or more riot police stand at every major street corner.
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The Uighur solidarity rally has turned into abject chaos after riot police arrived to rescue the Chinese flag outside City Hall, which was earlier lowered and left on the ground.
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HK has issued a red alert against South Korea, banning all non-HK arrivals from the country which has reported 833 #COVID19 cases.
This is the same gov’t that refused to close HK’s border with China (77,262 cases) claiming that would be “discrimination.”
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Police closing in from all sides. It’s impossible to leave Mong Kok now without passing through a police line.
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Yes, these are M&M’s being collected as evidence for state subversion after members of a student group were arrested today under the National Security Law.
M&M’s are the only chocolates allowed in Hong Kong jails. The students were collecting them to send to political prisoners. twitter.com/galileocheng/s…
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