#TVB #CCTVB #WhiteWash #Election
"#FakeNews": Pro-Beijing TV Channel Broadcast Misleading Report of Postponed Elections Overseas

Beijing-friendly TVB reported on 17 August 2020 on several postponed elections in other countries. However, its graphic titled "Five Eyes Alliance Postpones Elections" quickly angered netizens, who accused the TV station for whitewashing Beijing's forceful postponement of Hong Kong's legislative elections.

The report was seen as portraying other nations' election delay to legitimize what happened in Hong Kong. Some netizens outright called it "fake news".

In fact, out of the five countries listed, New Zealand is the only one postponing a federal-level election, and that only by one month. Britain's parliamentary elections was last held in 2019, and the next one will not be held until 2024. The elections cited by TVB were for a number local councils and mayors. Australia's is for the provincial government of New South Wales, and it is only delayed by four weeks. In Canada's case, the dates were for municipal elections in the single province of New Brunswick.

Joshua Wong noted that, most significantly, the decision to delay these elections were made by democratically-elected governments, who are voted in and can be voted out by their citizens. In contrast, Hong Kong's postponement was singlehandedly decided by China's National Congress, precluding and overruling any decision the Hong Kong Legislature might make, thus giving Hongkongers no say in the matter.

The screenshot of the TVB graphic was widely circulated in a Facebook post since yesterday. As citizens from the countries concerned confirmed that no federal elections were scheduled, netizens accused TVB for using the information to mislead and justify China postponing Hong Kong's legislative election, which is indeed a top-level election. Some are calling for the TV station to immediately issue a correction and clarification.

Sources: Patrick Yeh's Facebook; Joshua Wong's Facebook; Kau Yim Media #Aug18

Actual News on Election Postponements:

Britain:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/parliament-and-elections/elections-elections/coronavirus-faqs-on-postponed-election/

Australia:
https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/Elections/Local-government-elections/Local-Government-Elections-2021

Canada:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/municipal-elections-postponed-covid-1.5500648

#FiveEyesAlliance

#iCable #LayOff #Petition
200+ employees petition for i-Cable management to reveal reasons behind dismissal of engineering team heads

Source: Stand News #Aug22
https://bit.ly/31ghHSS

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#iCable #LayOff #Petition
200+ employees petition for i-Cable management to reveal reasons behind dismissal of engineering team heads

More than 200 employees from the Public Information of i-Cable petitioned, requesting for the management to reveal their true intentions behind the firing of 3 heads of the engineering team.

i-Cable responded to not affect the operation of the public information department

i-Cable filled the vacant roles in what seemed like an unbroken succession. The 3 heads of the engineering team were fired on 21 August on immediate notice.

Read here: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24406

More than 200 people in Public information Department, including every editors and journalists from the Hong Kong News team and all journalists from the China news team signed the petitioned directed to the i-Cable chairmen, David Chiu Tat -Cheong, and the Chief financial officer (CFO), Kwok Chi-Kin.

The employees felt “shocked, puzzled and angry” and expressed that this move would result in an “irrevocable loss of i-Cable”

They mentioned in the open letter that they did not approve of the management's decision to that dismiss the 3 heads without any prior notice. They also doubted the claims that from the management that this doing had no adverse effects on the daily operation of the company. They also requested for the management to explain the reasons behind the personnel changes.

The 3 new senior management officers mentioned in the letter are ex-senior management of another pro-Establishment TV station ATV, Anderson Chan Hing-cheong, Edna Tse, and Oscar Lee. Fung Tak-hung was reappointed to be an advisor.

i-Cable responded that the dismissal of the 3 people from engineering teams was a result of a “regular review of organisation structure and Human Resources”. They also mentioned that a reasonable and sufficient compensation package have been arranged according to the Employees’ Compensation Ordinance of Labour Department. They further reiterated their claims the dismissal "will not affect the daily operation of public information department”.

Source: Stand News #Aug22
https://bit.ly/31ghHSSn

#ATV #Management

#PoliceState #Abduction #Kidnap #AsiasFinest
Video Shows Alleged Kidnapping of Citizen by HK Police

Source: Stand News #Aug20
#Video

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#PoliceState #Abduction #Kidnap #AsiasFinest
Video Shows Alleged Kidnapping of Citizen by HK Police

Watch video: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24433

A video submitted to “Stand News” on 20 August, 2020 showed that 5-8 plainclothes police seized and forced a lady into a black seven-seat van under the bridge at the junction of O’Brien Road and Jaffe Road in Causeway Bay. The lady in the video, which has been circulating on the internet continued, shouted for help while being manhandled in the van. Police had been suspected to ”kidnap” civilians.

Police later posted in their official Facebook at night to clarify that the lady in the video has been arrested of the violation of “Access to a computer with criminal or dishonest intent”. They condemned netizens on the accusation of “kidnapping” by police officers on duty without warrant. Also, they denounced netizens attempted inciting hatred.

Source: Stand News #Aug20
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1361504794044825&extid=XqzSwPQH0G21ei9D

#ProtesterStory #YuenLong721
#Interview

Former Anti-Riot Police: the 21 July Incident was Absurd

Wah, a former anti-riot police, joined the police force because he wanted to help others. The night of the Yuen Long attack on 21 July 2019 was a life changing event for him. Disappointed with how the police had mishandled the violent incident, he became disillusioned and decided to leave the force. In this interview with Apple Daily, Wah recounted the 721 story from his perspective and exposed the permissive culture within the Hong Kong Police Force.

Full article:
https://telegra.ph/Former-Anti-Riot-Police-the-21-July-Incident-was-Absurd-08-22

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Related reading:

https://telegra.ph/Ryan-Lau-published-a-book-on-the-721-Yuen-Long-Attack-to-prevent-distortion-of-history-08-08


https://telegra.ph/Lest-we-forget-July-21-PLA-veteran-armed-with-a-mattock-handle-stood-against-the-white-gang-I-will-remember-this-to-my-last-day-07-17

#NetizensVoice

Discovery in Fairwood: HIKVISION thermal camera

What is HIKVISION?

//“The Courier” reported HIKVISION manufactures surveillance facilities used by the CCP in suppressing Tibetan and Uyghur populations and installed in detention camps in Xinjiang. Their products have already been banned from sale in the US.//
(Fairwood wanna make people happy?)

//“The Mercury”, which is owned by a Media tycoon of Rupert Murdoch and the editorial department is in Hobart, reported on 15 August with the heading of “Concern over Chinese ‘spy’ cameras near parliament”.

In the report, O’Connor, leader of United Tasmania Group and councillor of House of Assembly, stated that HIKVISION communication products not only have a security concern but also the company has deliberately created loopholes.”//
(For just to dine, do I have to have my data sent to the neighboring country?)

//HIKVISON SSD is in crisis lately. A famous KOL in China alleged NAND Flash chips in its high-end SSD model, “C200, has been changed to inferior parts. In another model of consumer-grade, “C160 SSD”, it was used-NAND collected from a Western Digital (WD) drive. Many chinese users have made videos on this debacle. So, its image in mainland China has been blemished.

It’s not the first time for HIKVISION to have an integrity issue. Customers have complained about suspicious false advertisement of HIKVISION C2000 SSD. The promotion material mentioned Toshiba Memory Chips, but Micron Chips was used in products. After videos circulate on the internet, HIKVISION removed its products and amended product information rapidly. All wordings of “Toshiba Chips” have been completed removed and replaced by “3D TLC.//
(Really make the best possible use of the epidemic, responds to comrade Xi’s call long time ago)

Source: Facebook
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#Fairwood #Surveilance #HIKVISION #BodyTemperature #Epidemic

#Newspaper

Beijing softened rhetoric after being attacked repeatedly by the US but critics believes it is only stopgap
 
(10 Aug) As the U.S. and China confrontation continues to escalate and expand its scope, China urgently adjusts its strategy - abandoning wolf warrier diplomacy and adopting a more flexible policy. The Chinese media and major propaganda channels have been ordered to change anti-U.S. propaganda slogans to advocate cooperation to achieve a win-win relationship.  Many people in the media industry believe that this is only an expedient measure of the Communist Party of China (CCP), and the nature of the CCP has not changed. 

//prohibit verbal abuse and attacks on the United States... so as not to trigger a greater backlash... defuse the aggressive offensive from the Trump administration.

//Without this idiot, it is impossible to be in this situation

//the sudden change of Hua's words could not be her personal will but the direction from the government.

//this is a consistent practice of the Communist Party".

//CCP's sudden change of tone was only towards the US. CCP currently adopted an even more aggressive approach to the United Kingdom and European countries.

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Beijing-softened-rhetoric-after-being-attacked-repeatedly-by-the-US-but-critics-believes-it-is-only-stopgap-08-21

Source: Radio Free Asia
Transited by: Hong Kong Echo

#China #US #Relationship #Xi #CCP #expedientmeasure #Diplomacy #ChinesePropaganda

#Military #China #US #PLA
Chinese Military Will Not Fire the First Shot, Beijing Stated to the US

Source: Stand News #Aug12

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#PLA #US
Chinese Military Will Not Fire the First Shot, Beijing Stated to the US

Tensions between China and the United States escalates as the two countries respectively start military operations frequently at the South China Sea. The South China Morning Post, citing a source, stated that Beijing clearly commanded the People’s Liberation Army not to fire the first shot, seemingly in an attempt to cool down the situation.

The report indicated that Beijing did not want to give an excuse for the War Hawks in Washington to further raise the tensions among the two countries. Beijing also ordered Chinese pilots and Chinese naval to remain restraint in a recent and frequent stand-off with US military fighter aircraft and fleets.

American carrier battle groups, the USS Nimitz and the USS Ronald Reagan, carried out drills in the South China Sea last month, as well as rare nighttime aerial reconnaissance missions near Guangdong and Fujian provinces. As for China, it conducted naval drills and flyover missions around Taiwan and the South China Sea.

#SouthChinaSea #Military #ChineseMilitary #Naval #USSNimitz #USSRonaldReagan #SouthChinaSea

Source: Stand News #Aug12

#CCPControl #ChinaInfiltration #WhiteTerror #FreeSpeech
#Censorship Spreads to Overseas: Sing Tao Daily Refuses to Publish Statement Condemning the National Security Law in Canada

A group of Hong Kong people in Canada has planned to publish a statement on Sing Tao Daily (Canada) condemning the Hong Kong national security law, but the statement was rejected by the newspaper. The statement was eventually published on Ming Pao Daily News (Canada), but only after removing parts that criticize local Chinese leaders. The Canadian Hong Kongers suspected that the effects of the national security law have already extended to Canada.

Source: Apple Daily #Aug12

#NationalSecurityLaw #SingTaoDaily #MingPao

https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20200812/XENR3OJRL5DGTI7YZCAW5DJ3DA/

#PoliceState #TamTakChi
At least 20 police surround social activist's booth, warning of national security violation

1740 | Kowloon Bay
At the street booth distributing facemasks run by social activist Tam Tak-Chi, at least 20 uniform and plainclothes police arrived and raised the purple flag, warning of potential national security violation.

Tam is the vice chairman of the pro-democracy party People Power.

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Police arrested at least one civilian for not carrying his HKID.

Source: Golden Forum #Aug23

#PeoplePower #PurpleFlag #NationalSecurityLaw

Trump Signed Executive Order Forcing TikTok to be sold in 90 days

US President Donald Trump signed a new executive order requesting TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell or to withdraw its U.S. business within 90 days.

Trump signed the executive order on the 14th and said that there was credible evidence showing ByteDance may take actions to imperil the national security of the U.S. The order required ByteDance to destroy all TikTok data attached to U.S. users after selling its U.S. business in 90 days, then to inform the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (#CFIUS) when it had destroyed all that data.

ByteDance did not respond to this order directly but stated that 100 million Americans loved TikTok because they can get opportunities for entertainment, self-expression, as well as social connections, and would continue to bring joy to the users.

#DonaldTrump #Trump #TikTok #ByteDance #US

Source: Stand News #Aug15