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In Hong Kong crackdown, police repeatedly broke their own rules — and faced no consequences wapo.st/hong-kong-poli…
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I was shocked on Monday night when the Hospital Authority said that by 2200 there were 116 casualties resulting from the protests, the youngest just six years old.
Tonight’s revised figures: 354 hospitalised, aged 0-67.
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Just heard a news presenter refer to these structures, used to impede police vehicles at protest road blocks (and possibly ritual purposes), as “Stonehenges.”
FYI they are trilithons—and that is the first time I’ve got to use my archaeology education since moving back to HK. 💁♂️
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“You can scrub away our words, but you can’t scrub away the truth.”
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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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True to form, tear gas has been fired on Salisbury Road. Merry Christmas, Hong Kong.
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Again: despite their “One Country” bluster, Chinese nationalists do not actually view us as their coequals or compatriots. They view HK as a colonial possession, and us as their unruly subjects. They’re not championing unity, they’re asserting ownership.
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I was very on the fence about sharing that story about @WHO Director-General @DrTedros blaming Taiwanese for all the criticism levied at his organisation, due to the flimsy attribution—but considering the attitude of his senior advisor here, that story is looking more credible... twitter.com/ezracheungtoto…
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Then-President Lee Teng-hui on the eve of Hong Kong's in November 1996: “50 years without change won’t be so simple. Our country already plans to enact laws to take in HK people who support democracy when the necessary time arrives, and I believe parliament will pass this bill."
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Now News reports that the man who stabbed a police officer in Causeway Bay has been confirmed dead.
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At the time of the primaries authorities warned that democrats’ strategy to win a legislative majority was illegal under the new Beijing-imposed law.
It sounded like a joke but today we see they truly meant it: Trying to win an election can now land you in prison for life in HK. twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/…
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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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Hong Kong Story’s Andy Li among 12 people arrested by the Chinese Coast Guard on a vessel offshore from Guangdong sailing to Taiwan.
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Just 15 minutes into the “Stuck with You” pressure test protest at Hong Kong International Airport and there are already several hundred #antiELAB protesters gathered outside at the airport bus terminus. These things tend not to get serious until a few hours after the start time.
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Hong Kong police have sealed off Tuen Mun’s Sun Yat-sen Park and the Red House—reputedly Sun’s revolutionary hideout—on the anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution.
How long until Dr Sun’s statue is removed from HKU along with the Pillar of Shame?
(photo via @StandNewsHK)
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How Double Tenth was marked by HK:
Dozens of police and private security sealed off the historic Red House used as Sun Yat-sen’s secret base (thestandnews.com/politics/%E5%B…) while at HKU—Sun’s alma mater—the Lennon Wall was destroyed in an unprecedented move (hkcnews.com/article/34647/…).
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Whilst heavy riot police deployment in Central has throttled the daily “Lunch With You” protests there, office workers and residents in Wong Chuk Hang are today marching through the post-industrial creative hub, calling for the five demands and the “revolution of our time.”
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Dangerous driving resulting in light injuries is punishable by nine years in prison in Hong Kong, depending on your political affiliation. twitter.com/hkcnews_com/st…
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According to this, HK textbooks are now teaching HK was never a colony because it was stricken from the UN “list of colonies” in 1972. This was in fact a list of Non-Self-Governing Territories, and Beijing had HK removed because UN resolutions promised self-determination to NSGTs twitter.com/initiumnews/st…
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Taipei 101 and the Grand Hotel lit up tonight to express gratitude to Japan for its vaccine donation and celebrate friendship between the two countries.
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Media raids now extended to @appledaily_hk and @inmediahk as Albert Ho’s law firm is also raided and lawyer John Clancey has been arrested in today’s ever-widening dragnet.
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Taiwan is tightening residency conditions for HK applicants, asking whether they’ve worked for/pledged allegiance to the SAR—an anti-infiltration safeguard akin to those applied to mainland applicants.
They now view the HK gov’t as equivalent to Beijing. hk.appledaily.com/china/20210612…
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They took the #HongKongProstests Lady Liberty statue all the way up Lion Rock this morning!
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Hong Kong police are very proud about keeping these textiles and stationery off the street today.
The people caught with them could go to prison for years—even life—under Hong Kong’s new National Security Law.
Managing Editor @cnmediaproject 中國傳媒研究計劃主編