📡Guardians of Hong Kong
9.58K subscribers
21.6K photos
1.88K videos
27 files
9.99K links
We provide translation of news in English from local media and other sources, for academic use.
Facebook: http://bit.ly/BeWaterHongKong
Instagram: @guardiansofhk
Website: https://guardiansofhk.com/
Download Telegram
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
#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.

Source: Stand News #Apr5

Contine Reading
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
#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
HK #LegislativeCouncil structure and Functional Constituency explained

Exercise your right to vote! Register as a voter NOW!
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19381
Microbiologist: "Chinese should Learn to be a Global Citizen"

Hong Kong microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung shared his reflections of the Coronavirus pandemic on the radio.

Yuen called for the respect for wildlife animals. Yuen said humans are consuming a variety of meat like pork, beef, lamb, chicken, duck and goose, but some are still not satisfied. With their greed for rare game meat, people hunt and caged wild animals together, causing cross-infections and new viruses to emerge after gene reshuffling and recombination.

Yuen believed that the population's civility in Germany and Japan is key to facilitate the containment of the disease and maintain a low mortality rate. He urged everyone to fulfil the responsibilities of a global citizen by cutting down unnecessary buying.

At the darkest hour, Yuen also witnessed human's selfishness: Some patients of Coronavirus infected others in beauty parlours or clubs, while medical supply shortage was caused by those hoarding material.

Source: Yahoo
Image: Daily Mail
#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
⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️Watch

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
Counterfeit 'Hong Kong' reporter from China's Party-Controlled Media

Although at one glance the two reporters might look alike, with a closer look we can see that they are two completely different persons, upholding different journalism ethics and standards.

Left: (Real)
A Hong Kong reporter from RTHK questioning WHO's treatment of Taiwan

Right: (Fake)
Reporter fron Pheonix TV, a Chinese Communist Party-controlled broadcaster, bombarding the U.S. president with CCP ideology in the name of 'Hong Kong'.

Image source: Internet

#RTHK #WHO #PhoenixTV #Trump

⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Continue
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19378
Editor’s Note: Are their resemblence a coincidence or a planned confusion inserted by Pheonix TV?

Previous story:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19377

After the mysterious death of the 15-year-old Chan Yin-lam last October, there have been sayings that the CCTV foootages shown to the public were re-enacted by an actress who looked like Chan.

Just as TVB, a pro-Beijing channel, had an exclusive interview with Chan's mother who insisted her daughter had killed herself when naked, her distant speech also caused audience to doubt if she is the real mother.

#TVB #ChanYinLam
#PoliceBrutality #PoliceState
San Uk Ling Holding Centre detains 182 arrestees, at least 30 hospitalized

During the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement, there had been reports that arrestees were abused during custody at San Uk Ling Holding Centre. After that, the police claimed that they had stopped using the centre.

Police commissioner Chris Tang Ping-keung recently answered to the Legislative Council's Finance Committee. He said San Uk Ling Holding Centre had been used for four times to detain arrestees, involving 182 persons in total: (1) 5-7 Aug (2) 11-13 Aug, (3) 25-26 Aug and (4) 1-2 Sept, with a maximum of 75 persons detained.

During the protests at Tsim Sha Tsui and Causeway Bay between 11 and 13 Aug, 30 out of 53 arrestees held in custody in San Uk Ling demanded medical attention.

Police claimed that 2 complaints involving San Uk Ling were under investigation. One of the cases concerns police beating 6 detainees.

Source: Apple Daily #Apr7
#SanUkLing