#FirstHand #Video #Apr8 #TseungKwanO
Altar Built To Mourn Chow Tsz-Lok

On 8 Nov 2019, 22-year-old Chow Tsz-Lok fell from Sheung Tak Car Park, alleged caused by police brutality.

Today marks the fifth month of his death. His loss still cuts deep in the hearts of many of us. We yearn for justice to be done and truth to be revealed. We will never forgive and never forget. Hongkongers, keep pressing for the truth!

#ChowTszLok #LestWeForget #RestInPeace #PoliceBritality #PoliceState #NeverForgive #NeverForget

#DailyUpdate #Apr8 #COVID19

COVID-19 Updates (8/4)

At the time of writing, 1,455,399 cases of the coronavirus had been confirmed in 209 countries and territories with 83,656 reported deaths. The US, Spain, Italy, Germany, and France continue to be the worst affected countries by the pandemic.

China’s official number rose by 62, 2 new deaths are reported.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has announced to hold the 127th China Import and Export Fair online at mid to late June.

First cases found in Sao Tome and Principe

The confirmed cases in USA have surpassed 400,000. In New York, the death number has surpassed the number in 911 incident.

Italy has now the most coronavirus death case, standing at 17,127.

In Italy, some elderly home staff members escaped together from work, some elderlies are suspected to die from hunger due to this.

In China, Wuhan, the city where the epidemic first started, has ended lockdown. 55 thousand people have left the city by locomotive today. Around 20 thousand people have arrived Pearl River Delta Region. WHO said it is still too early to conclude China has controlled the epidemic.

China is sending chartered planes to retrieve Chinese nationals from Morocco, including 27 Hong Kong nationals.

In Hong Kong, 25 new cases have been reported, including a two-month old baby.

All arrivals in Hong Kong are required to receive coronavirus test at AsiaWorld-Expo.
The HKSAR government is pushing a series of financial support measures, involving HKD 137.5 billion.

Singapore has reported 106 new cases, most of them are local cases. The government is banning its nationals from heading out.

Iran has reported 1997 new cases and 121 new deaths. Earlier Iran’s Ministry of Health incorrectly reported a much higher figure but was late corrected.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson continues to receive treatment in ICU, the officials said Johnson’s condition is stable.

American President Donald Trump has criticized WHO for inclining to China despite receiving money from USA. He would consider suspend funding the organization.

Turkmenistan, a Central Asian state has reported 0 cases of coronavirus. Experts doubt the authorities is hiding the statistics.

In France, Paris residents are restricted from heading out home for exercise from 10am to 7pm.

Source: Now News, Worldometer, Weibo, Xinhua agency

#ChinesePneumonia #MadeinChina #AnimalCruelty
Chinese markets are still selling bats and slaughtering rabbits on blood-soaked floors as Beijing celebrates 'victory' over the coronavirus 

"As the pandemic that began in Wuhan forced countries worldwide to go into lockdown ...thousands of customers flocked to a sprawling indoor market in Guilin, south-west China. Here cages of different species were piled on top of each other.

In another meat market in Dongguan, southern China...a medicine seller returning to business with a billboard advertising bats – thought to be the cause of the initial Wuhan outbreak – along with scorpions and other creatures. 

The shocking scenes came as China finally lifted a weekslong nationwide lockdown and encouraged people to go back to normal daily life to boost the flagging economy. Official statistics indicated there were virtually no new infections. 

The market in Guilin was packed with shoppers yesterday, with fresh dog and cat meat on offer..."

Read more: Daily Mail #Mar28

#Poll #CoronavirusCrisis
Public Opinion Poll: Coronavirus Pandemic is halting pro-democracy protests temporarily, but no add-on support goes to the government

The data was collected by Prof. Francis Lee and his team. This supplementaey analysis was presented by Dr. Leung Kai-chi, a lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

1. The “rally round the flag effect” is a concept used in political science to explain increased short-run popular support of the government during periods of crisis or war.

While Hong Kong citizens have been combating the epidemic in solidarity on the community level, it has not benefited the government in terms of public confidence and support.

2. Although the proportion of “Zero trust in Police” has fallen below 50%, at 46%, it still marks a huge difference compared to 7% before the 2019 Anti-extradition law movement. There is no sign of reversing public confidence in this regard.

3. Survey findings showed that many elderlies gave full mark to “trust in police”. Yet, it is worth-noting that among all those who gave full marks, only 32% are 70-years-old or above and this segment accounted merely 13% of all respondents.

4. No respondent in the age group 15-19 gave full mark to “trust in police”.

5. The education level of many respondents who gave full mark to “trust in police” are primary school or lower. The rate is significantly higher among all respondents.

6. The receding in protest activities currently, is temporary and an outcome of epidemic outbreak. Large-scale protest activities are likely to resume once when the outbreak is eased.

Source: Stand News

#Apr5 #HKProtest #FailedState #PoliceState #OpinionPoll #GovernanceCrisis

#WhiteTerror #Showbiz
Pro-democracy Actor Prepares to be Sacked by Pro-Beijing TV Channel in Hong Kong

"White terror" in Hong Kong has spreaded to civil servants, medical staff, educators and now showbiz celebrities.

As a contract actor in TVB, a pro-China free-to-air TV channel in Hong Kong, Lee yuk-sing, aged 28, sounded out his departure in distress. Lee explained that he was prepared to be sacked by TVB, like “all those who have publicly supported pro-democracy movement.”

Lee has openly supported the pro-democracy protests and shared political slogans like “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of our Times” on his Facebook.

Source: Apple Daily
https://bit.ly/2UZsoVA

#Apr4 #HongKongProtests #TVB #FreeSpeech

#Newspaper

If your voice is not in harmony with China’s official tone, you would be attacked in a “cultural revolution-style” even if you are a mainlander.
 
Chinese student Nova Hui commented on Weibo that Chinese are “miserable wretches”, “country haters” and “returning to the country like prisoners”, and she “is not going to be the small potato of the country” and “doesn’t want to go back at all”. These comments were slammed by netizens, criticizing that she was ungrateful and has forgotten her roots. She was also doxed.
 
Nova later issued an apology, emphasizing that she “loves her motherland and compatriots”. She admitted that she neglected the feelings of her compatriots, and shouldn’t have provoked them with extremist opinions. However, Nova revealed to her friend that she apologized for the sake of downplaying the situation, and believed that “it’ll be fine after three days”. Netizens thought her apology was insincere, and Nova’s Weibo account was subsequently deleted.
 
Chinese visiting scholar Wending Mai earlier sent an apology email to her American colleagues for the spread of COVID-19, due to the delayed actions by China. “As a Chinese, I feel sorry about the coronavirus which comes from China has spreaded out, from an epidemic to a pandemic that brings so many inconveniences to you, and even endanger people’s lives”, he wrote. “Chinese governemnt’s cover-up and WHO’s delayed response are also disappointing causes that also contribute to the spread. United States is a great country. I believe U.S. will survive and thrive. And I hope everything goes well soon.” He continued.
 
In fact, before the ‘Wending Mai email’ incident, a Chinese student studying in the US, Zhihao Kong, posted an ‘apology video’ on Twitter to apologize to COVID-19 patients, and said that “China regime and Chinese people are guilty for the surge of the pandemic”.
 
Wending Mai’s action begets wumaos and “little pinks” to turn out in full strength, attacking him in a “cultural revolution-style”

Source: Apple Daily, (02-Apr)
https://bit.ly/3c8RrfX

#Nationalism #Apology #WendingMai #US #NovaHui #Coronavirus

From 'Perfect Chinese Daughter' to Communist Party Critic: Why Vicky Xu is exposing China to scrutiny

"If something happens to me you know I've been murdered."

It's a joke journalist Vicky Xiuzhong Xu makes in her stand-up comedy routine, but the reality is that she's had a lot of death threats.

Today, Xu is one of the first journalists in Australia to lift the lid on the incarceration of Uyghurs in China, convincing members of the Australian-Uyghur community to go on the record with their stories of missing relatives.

It is believed that since 2017, China has forced at least 1 million Uyghurs, a Turkic-Muslim minority group, into political indoctrination camps in Xinjiang.

As the lead author of a report released last week, Xu has exposed the forced labour of tens of thousands of Uyghurs and other oppressed minority Muslims, detained, "re-educated" and despatched to work in factories outside of Xinjiang that supply Nike, Apple, Adidas and 80 other well-known clothing, automotive and technology brands.

'If you don't love China you're not one of them'

What led a young woman, one of her country's "best and brightest", to turn away from her government's ideology, but not her people? It's been an uneasy, sometimes agonising passage.

A dutiful child, Xu grew up with all the attention of her parents. She had violin, maths and physics tutors, and even an English tutor. Xu practised the violin until her chin was callused.

In 2012, She enrolled in an English broadcasting course which she claimed was designed to "cultivate TV personalities who are politically loyal, who seem worldly and savvy and can talk about issues with impeccable Western accents".

In 2014, Xu took a gap year and moved to Perth to teach Mandarin at a local high school. She saw a poster advertising a documentary on Tiananmen Square, a place she and her university friends had wandered at night after late-night partying.

In 1989, students killed when they were protesting for greater freedom and democracy.

When she saw the film, Xu was grief-stricken and angry because she had known nothing about what had happened, whitewashed from China's history. She felt betrayed.

Xu was still not convinced by what she saw. There were reports pointing fingers at CIA involvement in the massacre, she thought they could be true.

At the university, she was overwhelmed by the negative information about China and the accusations of human rights abuses. Her mindset however, was starting to shift.

For one of her assignments, she interviewed dissidents from China. One of them was Lebao Wu.

"I thought he was a fraud and I was going to interview him, write about him, and expose him."

He was a maths teacher who made jokes about China's leaders online and was put in prison and forced to do hard labour for 14 hours a day. When he was released and settled in Australia he was diagnosed with PTSD and a variety of mental health issues.

His story of injustice moved Xu.

"I was very touched by his story, and it made me rethink a lot of my previous stances."

Xu received face-to-face warnings over an article that she was wrote, addressing the government's inaction following a flood. Authorities later stopped her at a train station and warned her again.

Her family has repeatedly warned her not to return to China. She may never get see them again.

Sacrifices were made. However, whatever that she has done has made such an impact, an impact that could possibly save the lives of the vulnerable. At only 25, she has achieved what many journalists never will in a lifetime.

"I think it's just going to be like a continuous path to pursue freedom, and you can never have too much #freedom , or a voice. You know, you can never have too much #justice."

#AntiCCP #BoycottChina #Dictatorship #WhiteTerror #Censorship #VickyXu

Video:
https://youtu.be/wa8b117uWEM

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-09/vicky-xu-exposing-chinas-human-rights-abuses/11954794

#Newspaper

US President Donald Trump confronted a Phoenix TV reporter on Monday, who said the station was independently owned and Hong Kong-based.

Think tank Freedom House has said the station is a "semi-official" outlet with close ties to top officials.

Source: HKFP
https://bit.ly/3e8LUYf
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Further reading:
China uses "Hong Kong" as white gloves
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19333

#Trump #PhoenixTV

#OpinionArticle

A Hong Kong “based” channel but has zero views locally

There is no need for surprise because this is how the CCP is – when there are benefits, everything belongs to China; when there are accusations, it's none of my business.

In 2017, when China was accused of violating sanctions by the UN Security Council for smuggling petroleum to North Korea, Auntie Hua [Chunying] repeatedly dodged questions during the press conference. Two months later, the state-run newspaper Global Times published an article claiming that the freighter involved was rented by a Taiwanese business (which Taiwan later clearly denied).

At that moment, Taiwan did not belong to China.

Presently in 2020, a Phoenix TV reporter embarrassed herself at a press conference. When asked if she was a reporter from China, she feigned earnestness in responding three times that she came from Hong Kong, as if being Chinese was so shameful that she wanted Hong Kong independence now.

Where does Phoenix TV even come from? It is a TV channel that claims to be based in Hong Kong but has zero views locally. The channel needs to go through a television converter box and pretty much has no Hong Kong audience. Her intentions were clear as day when she claimed to be a Hong Kong reporter.

In Chinese mythology, the phoenix is the king of the birds and is known for its magnificence. But if they are so spineless, they might as well rebrand themselves as a pheasant.

Source: RWBB Facebook
https://bit.ly/2y3f22U

Further reading:
Mr. Shen’s comment on Phoenix TV
https://twitter.com/Terenceshen/status/1247349856433250305?s=19

#PhoenixTV #Taiwan #HongKong #Lies #CCP