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The Taiwan-Hong Kong Services and Exchanges Office officially opened in Taipei at 10:00 this morning to provide humanitarian assistance and other services to Hongkongers who wish to study, do business, make investments, or seek asylum in Taiwan.
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In troublingly mainland fashion, former CE CY Leung appears to believe the new National Security Law should apply not only retroactively but also extraterritorially to HKers worldwide, offering a $1m reward for the arrest of “fugitives” and "law-breakers in HK and other regions."
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On the morning that Beijing passed a sweeping new National Security Law for Hong Kong, student activists @joshuawongcf, @nathanlawkc and @chowtingagnes have all withdrawn from pro-democracy political group @demosisto.
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Eat all the subversive cake while you still can.
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Details of the law that promises to “restore stability” to Hong Kong must not be disclosed because it would destabilise Hong Kong. t.co/R3RwYdj4hX
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Beijing's top man on HK, VP Han Zheng, has a new solution for the city's housing crisis: pave over SW Lantau Marine Park—one of only two remaining core
habitats of the Chinese white dolphin—to build public housing at literally the furthest end of HK.
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After local chain Chickeeduck erected a Goddess of Democracy statue in their Discovery Park store, mall owner New World Devt has demanded its removal.
NWD is part of the local property cartel, invests hugely in China, and its chair is a CPPCCSC member.
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Pro-democracy candidates won 80% of District Council seats last November and polls indicate that close to 3 million HKers joined protests last year, with their supporters outnumbered their opponents nearly 2:1.
Yet Carrie Lam is still calling them “enemies of the people”. Wow. twitter.com/alvinllum/stat…
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From "We Serve with Pride and Care” to “No Burnt Villages, No Mass Graves.” This year has been a trip. twitter.com/maryhui/status…
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It’s astonishing that we’re now in the habit of calling HK “ungovernable.” The civic pride and capacity for self-organisation shown by HKers on June 4th is another reminder that it’s so-called ungovernability is merely a reflection of those misgoverning it. twitter.com/benjaminqiu/st…
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Hundreds of people have assembled at Taipei’s Liberty Square to remember the victims of the June 4th massacre, including a sizeable coterie of Hongkongers and their supporters.
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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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Seeing「時代革命」(“revolution of our time”) written atop a judiciously buttered slice of Hong Kong-style French toast is a dream you, too, can realise at pro-democracy bing sutt 行運冰室 Lucky Cafe in Taipei.
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A message circulated by the admin in this HK protest Telegram group recalls the names of Black Americans killed by police violence in recent years before concluding: “If we turn a blind eye to the suffering of others... we have no right to ask others to care about our suffering.”
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This is what Hong Kong already looks like *without* a national security law. twitter.com/ShibaniMahtani…
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Article 60 stipulates that part or all of the Regulations may be scrapped if Hong Kong’s situation materially changes (e.g. if the NPC bypasses LegCo to pen a National security law for HK, invalidating 1C2S).
This could open the way for offering refuge to protesters fleeing HK.
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In a message just posted on Facebook. Taiwan’s Pres. Tsai @iingwen says she will consider invoking article 60 of the Regulations Governing Relations with HK and Macau to institute “necessary emergency measures” to help Hongkongers if the city’s situation continues to deteriorate.
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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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Beijing’s move to promulgate a nat’l security law for HK constitutes an “all-out assault on basic human rights” and a ploy to seize total control, says the organiser.
“Taiwanese people and the gov’t cannot stay aloof. We will stand together with HK and oppose China’s tyranny.”
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“The CCP is attempting to strengthen its control over HK with the National security law but I know that both our brothers and sisters in HK and our friends in Taiwan who love freedom and democracy won’t be deterred,” says a HK student currently studying in Taiwan.
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Feels like far too long since I’ve heard this sung: #HongKongProstests anthem “Glory to Hong Kong”.
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In the lobby of Taipei Main Station, a flash mob to support Hong Kong—as it faces the effective demise of One Country, Two Systems—is about to begin.
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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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Aegis 保護傘 is a cafe created to offer jobs and work visas to Hong Kong protesters who fled to Taiwan.
Located just opposite NTU at 新生南路三段70巷, it offers a mixed menu of pasta dishes plus classics like 西多士 and菠蘿油, as well as free books and pamphlets on the protests.
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Plans for the new, $600m, publicly-funded Police Officers’ Club in Causeway Bay, acquired by @appledaily_hk, make the Royal HK Yacht Club next door look slummy–and come as top brass are being investigated for mansions illegally constructed on public land.
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