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Hey @GAINAXNET, did you license this? Chinese state media is using the Neon Genesis Evangelion soundtrack in its propaganda against Hong Kong democracy protests and I suspect it might be copyright infringement. twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/s…
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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.
hk01.com/article/487138…
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Protesters defiant on Hennessy Road. One year and one draconian national security law later, their five demands have not changed.
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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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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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Taiwan reports this AM that 5 million Covid‑19 vaccines ordered from Pfizer–BioNTech last year have been “intercepted” due to “Chinese political intervention”: cna.com.tw/news/firstnews…
How’s that "campaign to win hearts of Taiwanese” (reuters.com/article/us-tai…) with vaccines going?
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Carrie Lam adviser and cabinet member Regina Ip today proposing making HK residency—plus ensuing rights—subject to a loyalty test.
In the same week that police blocked access to a protest site, another troubling sign of what's to come as HK gets full “restive region” treatment.
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Just in from today’s foreign ministry press briefing: Beijing explains there can’t have been an incident involving Chinese and Taiwanese diplomats in Suva because “Taiwan has no so-called diplomats in Fiji” and Chinese Embassy staff were provoked by _a cake_ bearing the ROC flag.
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Coronavirus social distancing measures banning groups of more than four, scheduled to be relaxed this Thursday, have just been extended to October 1—not long after a protest march was announced for that day.
林鄭月娥：原定周四午夜到期防疫措施延長至10月1日 news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/compon…
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“Citizens cover their faces: Carrie Lam covers her heart.”
Hongkongers are hitting the street again, this time braving both rain and a draconian emergency law outlawing masks at demonstrations.
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Just a few of the images shared online exposing the double standards of HK police last night. A man who repeatedly assaulted journalists was genially led away, while another openly brandishing a cleaver was lent a riot shield. Compare and contrast with treatment of protesters.
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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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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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As 1000s queue overnight for masks, this exchange:
“Thanks to Carrie Lam for giving me this opportunity.”
“Why?”
“I never thought I’d sleep out on the street to buy face masks.”
They may have lost hope and faith in their gov’t, but HKers haven’t lost their dark sense of humour.
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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 rapidly becoming a pattern: every time HK police arrest someone for subversion, secession or foreign collusion, the central government liaison office—which once avoided overt signs of directing HK affairs—loudly eggs them on. The mask is truly off. hd.stheadline.com/news/realtime/…
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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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So this whole time blue ribbons and tankies have been spinning spurious conspiracy theories about the US training millions of Hong Kong protesters, turns out they were actually training the Hong Kong police.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ twitter.com/wilfredchan/st…
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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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HKU Prof Yuen Kwok-yung, who led the discovery of the SARS #coronavirus in 2003, says the coming days are our “last window of opportunity” to contain the #WuhanOutbreak, which has hit an attack rate of 83%, and calls on everyone in HK to wear face masks.
today.line.me/HK/article/L99…
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Guangdong province is requiring everyone wear a face mask in public or face fines, while the city of Shantou has closed its borders. HK officials are still refusing to wear masks or countenance a border closure as advocated by public health professionals.
hk01.com/article/426695
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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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Yesterday in Tsuen Wan I noticed two new tactics used by protesters to slow the advance of riot police: emptying small bags of marbles and squirting out dishwashing liquid on the street to slip them up when they charge. If this is what CIA funding looks like, I am underwhelmed.
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This morning police were filmed chasing and tackling middle-schoolers outside Confucian Tai Shing Ho Kwok Pui Chun College in Tai Po, where yesterday around 100 students who wanted to participate in the #antiELAB strike were locked inside a classroom.
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A year in the life of Hong Kong’s National Security Law: every day, a new “red line.”
via @StandNewsHK
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