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Is 免費香港 still OK? twitter.com/HarryBaldwinPG…
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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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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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Outside Sham Shui Po Police Station, a group of local residents—mostly unmasked and not wearing black—have gathered to have beers and dessert and yell at the cops across the street. Just an ordinary Tuesday night.
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This Weibo poll covers every possible opinion you could express (in China).
“What do you have to say about the #NBAChina fiasco?”
🔘”Support banning broadcasts!”
🔘 “I wouldn’t watch this kind of NBA anyway!”
🔘 “Morey must apologise!”
🔘 “Basketball fans have the motherland!”
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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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After losing to Taiwan’s Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin in the badminton men’s doubles gold medal match yesterday, China’s Li Junhui takes to Weibo to congratulate… China.
“Congratulations to our Taipei, China team 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳,” he writes.
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This is what a real-time cyber attack map of Hong Kong looks like right now.
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Hong Kong students at I-Shou University in Kaohsiung have begun forming “self-protection groups” after a mainland student tried to strangle a Hong Kong dorm mate who wrote a post-it supporting the protests (thankfully, he was saved by fellow Hongkongers) cna.com.tw/news/firstnews…
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There is nothing more political than “keeping politics out of sport.”
If the detention of Tibetans, Uyghurs, and HKers in Athens last week didn’t make that clear, just look at the runners being surrounded by HK police today for politically incorrect clothing.
(via @hkcnews_com) twitter.com/ofarry/status/…
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Hong Kong’s first #2019nCoV fatality has just occurred.
The 39-year-old victim, a Whampoa resident, suffered from heart failure this morning. He was diagnosed 31 January, the city’s 13th case.
【武漢肺炎．最新】首宗死亡個案 39歲住黃埔男病人心臟停頓 hk01.com/article/429654
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Riot police are continuing to march down Salisbury Road, firing a hail of tear gas and pushing protesters back toward TST. This couple was caught in their car with only surgical masks as a miasma of tear gas enveloped them.
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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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“The high court ruled it’s unconstitutional? High court of where?”
“HK.”
“The constitution of where? The PRC?”
“The Basic Law.”
“HK has a constitution?”
Seeing mainlanders mind-blown over the CFA ruling is both hilarious and reminds you what is so valuable and special about HK.
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A very HK solution:
Instead of giving $100m to the needy, give it to the supermarket duopoly comprised of Jardine’s Wellcome and Li Ka-shing’s ParknShop chains—both of which have bumped up prices and turned a profit during the pandemic—and trust them to distribute food vouchers. twitter.com/rthk_enews/sta…
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Siobhan Bernadette Haughey takes silver in the 200m freestyle, winning Hong Kong’s first-ever Olympic medal in swimming and, if I may, reflected glory for all us mixed Irish-Hongkongers!
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More molotov cocktails falling on police in Tsuen Wan.
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The 18-year-old protester shot in the chest at close range by police 1 Oct has been charged with rioting and 2 counts of assaulting a police officer. When I went to the hospital that night, his operating room was already flanked by cops in with riot gear. hk.news.appledaily.com/local/realtime…
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As the last human chain of the year ends, Nathan Road is occupied by riot police and raptors in Mong Kok. With just two hours until midnight, those of you calling this the “2019 protests/unrest” are going to have to think fast.
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Less than an hour in, tear gas has already been fired on marchers at TST East. This is a legal protest that received police permission.
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Laws, rules, “red lines”—none of it matters anymore. They take whoever they want whenever they want. twitter.com/galileocheng/s…
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As domestic production of masks continues to climb, Taiwan’s mask rationing system will get another upgrade next week.
People will be able to buy 9 masks every 2 weeks online then collect them at convenience stores. They’ll also be able to send up to 30 abroad every two months.
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Taiwan just reported its first #COVID2019 death: a diabetic man in his mid-60s with hepatitis B who has no history of travel abroad and contracted the virus locally.
Hospitalised since 3 February, he died last night from pneumonia and septicaemia.
udn.com/news/story/120…
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Tear gas just fired on Morrison Hill Road after two Molotov cocktails were thrown in front of advancing riot police.
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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.
Managing Editor @cnmediaproject 中國傳媒研究計劃主編