#Discrimination #AsiasFinest #PressFreedom
Police Demand Stand News Reporter to prove identity through income
3 reporters, including one from Stand News, were stopped and searched by the police while reporting the commemoration of university student Chow Tsz-lok on Aug 8, 2020, which marked 9 months after his death.
After showing the press pass and ID card, the Stand News reporters was asked by the police for proof that he is a salaried employee of the news agency. Police demanded the reporter to call his colleagues to provide proof. In the end, the police ticketed the other two reporters for violating the gathering ban because they "failed" to prove their identity as a journalist. “You’re on the borderline,” said the police to the Stand News reporter, “but I trust that you are just here to do your job”.
Source: Stand News #Aug9
#ChowTszLok #9Months #StandNews
Police Demand Stand News Reporter to prove identity through income
3 reporters, including one from Stand News, were stopped and searched by the police while reporting the commemoration of university student Chow Tsz-lok on Aug 8, 2020, which marked 9 months after his death.
After showing the press pass and ID card, the Stand News reporters was asked by the police for proof that he is a salaried employee of the news agency. Police demanded the reporter to call his colleagues to provide proof. In the end, the police ticketed the other two reporters for violating the gathering ban because they "failed" to prove their identity as a journalist. “You’re on the borderline,” said the police to the Stand News reporter, “but I trust that you are just here to do your job”.
Source: Stand News #Aug9
#ChowTszLok #9Months #StandNews
#Sanction
Carrie Lam’s son fled US two weeks before the sanction was imposed
The US Department of Treasury imposed sanction on 11 Hong Kong officers including the Chief Executive Carrie Lam on 7 August. The location of Lam Yuk-hei, the younger son of Carrie Lam who is a PhD candidats in the US, drew media attention.
FactWire has tried to contact him in the US and found that he was missing since 25 July. His roommate got his message on Facebook that he went back to Hong Kong for “family emergency”. However, on 27 July, Lam Yuk-hei had confirmed with the landlord to renew the lease until August 2021. After that, he was out of touch, and his whereabouts was unknown.
The Chief Executive’s office hasn’t replied yet to media inquiry.
Source: Factwire News Agency
#Aug9 #Sanction #US #CarrieLam #LamYukHei
Carrie Lam’s son fled US two weeks before the sanction was imposed
The US Department of Treasury imposed sanction on 11 Hong Kong officers including the Chief Executive Carrie Lam on 7 August. The location of Lam Yuk-hei, the younger son of Carrie Lam who is a PhD candidats in the US, drew media attention.
FactWire has tried to contact him in the US and found that he was missing since 25 July. His roommate got his message on Facebook that he went back to Hong Kong for “family emergency”. However, on 27 July, Lam Yuk-hei had confirmed with the landlord to renew the lease until August 2021. After that, he was out of touch, and his whereabouts was unknown.
The Chief Executive’s office hasn’t replied yet to media inquiry.
Source: Factwire News Agency
#Aug9 #Sanction #US #CarrieLam #LamYukHei
#Taiwan #US #AirForce #AlexAzar
U.S. Secretary of Health Arrives in Taiwan on Air Force Two,
BBC: US-Taiwan Relations Reach a 41-year high
Source: Stand News #Aug9
#TsaiIngWen #DonaldTrump #Embassy #TaiwanTravelAct
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U.S. Secretary of Health Arrives in Taiwan on Air Force Two,
BBC: US-Taiwan Relations Reach a 41-year high
Source: Stand News #Aug9
#TsaiIngWen #DonaldTrump #Embassy #TaiwanTravelAct
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U.S. Secretary of Health Arrives in Taiwan on Air Force Two,
BBC: US-Taiwan Relations Reach a 41-year high
While China-US relations are deteriorating and have sanctioned each other, US-Taiwan relations become closer. The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, led a visiting delegation to Taiwan and arrived at Taipei Songshan Airport on Aug 9. He is the first United States cabinet-level official to visit Taiwan in six years. He is also the highest-ranking official visiting Taiwan since the cessation of diplomatic relations between the US and Taiwan in 1979.
The Boeing C-40B executive plane that arrived in Taiwan was Air Force Two with the American flag painted on the aircraft. Central News Agency (#CNA) of Taiwan pointed out that the United States attached great importance to Taiwan with a high-level attitude.
The high standards visit from the United States to Taiwan this time indicate that U.S.-Taiwan relations have escalated to a new high after the cessation of diplomatic relations in 1979.
Since Donald Trump has been the president of the United States, he directly telephoned Tsai Ing-wen and publicly called her the "President of Taiwan" on Twitter. In 2018, the two houses of Congress passed the Taiwan Travel Act. United States officials can visit Taiwan and meet with Taiwanese officials, and vice versa. Alex Azar was the first official to visit Taiwan under the act. In 2019, Taiwan officially changed the name of the Coordination Council for North American Affairs (#CCNAA) to the Taiwan Council for U.S. Affairs, which is equivalent to the United States Embassy in Taiwan.
Source: Stand News #Aug9
#TsaiIngWen #DonaldTrump #Embassy #TaiwanTravelAct
https://thestandnews.com/%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3/%E7%BE%8E%E8%A1%9B%E7%94%9F%E9%83%A8%E9%95%B7%E6%90%AD%E4%B9%98-%E5%89%AF%E7%B8%BD%E7%B5%B1%E5%B0%88%E6%A9%9F-%E6%8A%B5%E5%8F%B0-bbc-%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E7%B6%B2-%E7%BE%8E%E5%8F%B0%E9%97%9C%E4%BF%82%E9%81%94-41-%E5%B9%B4%E4%BE%86%E6%96%B0%E9%AB%98%E9%BB%9E/
U.S. Secretary of Health Arrives in Taiwan on Air Force Two,
BBC: US-Taiwan Relations Reach a 41-year high
While China-US relations are deteriorating and have sanctioned each other, US-Taiwan relations become closer. The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, led a visiting delegation to Taiwan and arrived at Taipei Songshan Airport on Aug 9. He is the first United States cabinet-level official to visit Taiwan in six years. He is also the highest-ranking official visiting Taiwan since the cessation of diplomatic relations between the US and Taiwan in 1979.
The Boeing C-40B executive plane that arrived in Taiwan was Air Force Two with the American flag painted on the aircraft. Central News Agency (#CNA) of Taiwan pointed out that the United States attached great importance to Taiwan with a high-level attitude.
The high standards visit from the United States to Taiwan this time indicate that U.S.-Taiwan relations have escalated to a new high after the cessation of diplomatic relations in 1979.
Since Donald Trump has been the president of the United States, he directly telephoned Tsai Ing-wen and publicly called her the "President of Taiwan" on Twitter. In 2018, the two houses of Congress passed the Taiwan Travel Act. United States officials can visit Taiwan and meet with Taiwanese officials, and vice versa. Alex Azar was the first official to visit Taiwan under the act. In 2019, Taiwan officially changed the name of the Coordination Council for North American Affairs (#CCNAA) to the Taiwan Council for U.S. Affairs, which is equivalent to the United States Embassy in Taiwan.
Source: Stand News #Aug9
#TsaiIngWen #DonaldTrump #Embassy #TaiwanTravelAct
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#OpinionArticle #HealthCode #MassSurveillance #SocialCreditSystem
Making Health Code Permanent: Authorities' Plan to Mass Surveillance and Chines Communist Party's Goal to Control
Part 1/2
Source: 作者 #Aug9
Graphic:
http://myblogs.asia/view2/69340/
#FailedState #TotalitarianRegime #CoronavirusPandemic #CCPControl #HuangZhou #CasteSystem
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Making Health Code Permanent: Authorities' Plan to Mass Surveillance and Chines Communist Party's Goal to Control
Part 1/2
Source: 作者 #Aug9
Graphic:
http://myblogs.asia/view2/69340/
#FailedState #TotalitarianRegime #CoronavirusPandemic #CCPControl #HuangZhou #CasteSystem
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Making Health Code Permanent: Authorities' Plan to Mass Surveillance and Chinese Communist Party's Goal to Control
Part 1/2
After deferring the Legislativ Election in Hong Kong, the next political assignment of the Beijing loyalists is to push forward the set up of Health Code in Hong Kong. Pro-Beijing figures in Hong Kong such as Starry Lee Wai-king and Martin Liao Cheung-kong couldn’t wait to abet the Hong Kong SAR government to grant permission for those carrying Health Codes to dine out after 6pm.
Somehow, this has made our earlier prediction come true: The authorities will provide certain incentives to hook the people of Hong Kong into a Social Credit System.
Last July, when I first brought this issue into public discussion in Hong Kong, government official Patrick Nip Tak-kuen promptly responded to my article. He denied that the government was working to establish a social credit system in Hong Kong.
Soon after that, the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) officials removed Hong Kong from a website run by the Party which displayed an action plan to bring Social Credit System to life in China in 3 years’ time. Apparently, a scam has been busted when meeting the public eyes. However, the action plan has never been truly abandoned, but resurrected through the Wuhan pneumonia and in form of Health Code.
The behavior of the CCP is traceable. Huang Zhou in China was the first Tier 1 city to out the Social Credit System into test. In February 2020, it was again the first city running the Health Code system. Owing to the recoil of public opinion in Huang Zhou where the public has denounced the Health Code system as a new “Caste system”, the CCP hesitated to accelerate the action plan too quickly. Despite this, the authorities are trying to introduce the same coding system in Hong Kong: A Green Code signal means "permission granted" while a Red Code signal means "denial".
Many Huang Zhou citizens were stunned to see their Health Codes turn red for unknown reasons. They were obstructed from going home and forced to be isolated for 14 days for reasons unclear and unexplained. While negative comments help improve the Health Code system through
rounds of critique-and-modification, the system might have built up its public recognition in China. The next action the CCP will take is to make it permanent. In May 2020, the authorities have tried to push forward a nation-wide Health Code.
When questioned, the Hong Kong SAR government repeatedly stressed that local citizen’s data will not be dispatched to China; but, is Hong Kong not part of China?
To be Continued
Source: 作者 #Aug9
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3422735741109873&id=972393926144079
Graphic:
http://myblogs.asia/view2/69340/
#FailedState #TotalitarianRegime #CoronavirusPandemic #CCPControl #HuangZhou #CasteSystem
Making Health Code Permanent: Authorities' Plan to Mass Surveillance and Chinese Communist Party's Goal to Control
Part 1/2
After deferring the Legislativ Election in Hong Kong, the next political assignment of the Beijing loyalists is to push forward the set up of Health Code in Hong Kong. Pro-Beijing figures in Hong Kong such as Starry Lee Wai-king and Martin Liao Cheung-kong couldn’t wait to abet the Hong Kong SAR government to grant permission for those carrying Health Codes to dine out after 6pm.
Somehow, this has made our earlier prediction come true: The authorities will provide certain incentives to hook the people of Hong Kong into a Social Credit System.
Last July, when I first brought this issue into public discussion in Hong Kong, government official Patrick Nip Tak-kuen promptly responded to my article. He denied that the government was working to establish a social credit system in Hong Kong.
Soon after that, the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) officials removed Hong Kong from a website run by the Party which displayed an action plan to bring Social Credit System to life in China in 3 years’ time. Apparently, a scam has been busted when meeting the public eyes. However, the action plan has never been truly abandoned, but resurrected through the Wuhan pneumonia and in form of Health Code.
The behavior of the CCP is traceable. Huang Zhou in China was the first Tier 1 city to out the Social Credit System into test. In February 2020, it was again the first city running the Health Code system. Owing to the recoil of public opinion in Huang Zhou where the public has denounced the Health Code system as a new “Caste system”, the CCP hesitated to accelerate the action plan too quickly. Despite this, the authorities are trying to introduce the same coding system in Hong Kong: A Green Code signal means "permission granted" while a Red Code signal means "denial".
Many Huang Zhou citizens were stunned to see their Health Codes turn red for unknown reasons. They were obstructed from going home and forced to be isolated for 14 days for reasons unclear and unexplained. While negative comments help improve the Health Code system through
rounds of critique-and-modification, the system might have built up its public recognition in China. The next action the CCP will take is to make it permanent. In May 2020, the authorities have tried to push forward a nation-wide Health Code.
When questioned, the Hong Kong SAR government repeatedly stressed that local citizen’s data will not be dispatched to China; but, is Hong Kong not part of China?
To be Continued
Source: 作者 #Aug9
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3422735741109873&id=972393926144079
Graphic:
http://myblogs.asia/view2/69340/
#FailedState #TotalitarianRegime #CoronavirusPandemic #CCPControl #HuangZhou #CasteSystem
#OpinionArticle #HealthCode #MassSurveillance #SocialCreditSystem
Making Health Code Permanent: Authorities' Plan to Mass Surveillance and Chinese Communist Party's Goal to Control
Part 1
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24339
Source: 作者 #Aug9
Graphic:
http://myblogs.asia/view2/69340/
#FailedState #TotalitarianRegime #CoronavirusPandemic #CCPControl #HuangZhou #CasteSystem
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Making Health Code Permanent: Authorities' Plan to Mass Surveillance and Chinese Communist Party's Goal to Control
Part 1
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24339
Source: 作者 #Aug9
Graphic:
http://myblogs.asia/view2/69340/
#FailedState #TotalitarianRegime #CoronavirusPandemic #CCPControl #HuangZhou #CasteSystem
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Making Health Code Permanent: Authorities' Plan to Mass Surveillance and CCP's Goal to Control
Part 2/2
Introducing a nation-wide Health Code is not only a public opinion issue, but also a technical necessity in view of system compatibility.
Health Code in China is separately managed by Tencent’s WeChat and Alibaba’s Alipay. If Hong Kong government declares that Hong Kong citizens’ personal data will not be transferred to Beijing, shouldn’t it first ensure the Health Code in Hong Kong will not be managed by Tencent and Alibaba?
However, it happened that, Alibaba owner Jack Ma is a major shareholder of Prenetics, the Chinese company appointed by Hong Kong government to carry out Coronavirus nucleic acid test in Hong Kong. If Hong Kong government stresses that the Health Code in Hong Kong and China are "incompatible", isn’t it not like finding enemy with the Central policy.
Imagine any person who refuses to be inspected by Beijing Genomics Institute (#BGI) will be denied to dine out at restaurants in evenings: Knowing Hong Kong people, many of them may even line up to obtain this AI-powered collar. Besides, having a check-point at every district is an important step towards popularizing the Health Code, followed by a “Caste system” as Huang Zhou citizens called it, which would exploit the exclusion psychology among people and induce social stratification. Finally, peopld would strive to become an "upper caste".
In China, Alipay has long been training consumers to scan QR codes and use facial recognition to log-in. These are actually parts of the behavioral domestication engineering projects. The two-dimensional coding system on the gates of Shenzhen subway train is said to link with Health Code. Passengers who have become used to the “scanning-before-boarding” mechanism are, meanwhile, revealing all footprints of their social life to the authorities.
In other words, “tracking the virus spread” is merely a gateway for the Chinese Communist Party to attain their actual aim to “track every citizen real-time”.
In addition, the biggest fallacy of the Health Code system is the assumption that everybody is sick, so that they would need to prove that they are healthy. Otherwise, they may risk becoming the public bads and losing their personal freedom. While Beijing would have successfully made Hong Kong people rat out each other, many would be willing to act as the "health police" of the totalitarian regime to identify those who refuse to comply with the rule, hence assisting the implementation of the Social Credit System to its perfection.
Source: 作者 #Aug9
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3422735741109873&id=972393926144079
Graphic:
http://myblogs.asia/view2/69340/
#FailedState #TotalitarianRegime #CoronavirusPandemic #CCPControl #WhiteTerror #HealthPolice
Making Health Code Permanent: Authorities' Plan to Mass Surveillance and CCP's Goal to Control
Part 2/2
Introducing a nation-wide Health Code is not only a public opinion issue, but also a technical necessity in view of system compatibility.
Health Code in China is separately managed by Tencent’s WeChat and Alibaba’s Alipay. If Hong Kong government declares that Hong Kong citizens’ personal data will not be transferred to Beijing, shouldn’t it first ensure the Health Code in Hong Kong will not be managed by Tencent and Alibaba?
However, it happened that, Alibaba owner Jack Ma is a major shareholder of Prenetics, the Chinese company appointed by Hong Kong government to carry out Coronavirus nucleic acid test in Hong Kong. If Hong Kong government stresses that the Health Code in Hong Kong and China are "incompatible", isn’t it not like finding enemy with the Central policy.
Imagine any person who refuses to be inspected by Beijing Genomics Institute (#BGI) will be denied to dine out at restaurants in evenings: Knowing Hong Kong people, many of them may even line up to obtain this AI-powered collar. Besides, having a check-point at every district is an important step towards popularizing the Health Code, followed by a “Caste system” as Huang Zhou citizens called it, which would exploit the exclusion psychology among people and induce social stratification. Finally, peopld would strive to become an "upper caste".
In China, Alipay has long been training consumers to scan QR codes and use facial recognition to log-in. These are actually parts of the behavioral domestication engineering projects. The two-dimensional coding system on the gates of Shenzhen subway train is said to link with Health Code. Passengers who have become used to the “scanning-before-boarding” mechanism are, meanwhile, revealing all footprints of their social life to the authorities.
In other words, “tracking the virus spread” is merely a gateway for the Chinese Communist Party to attain their actual aim to “track every citizen real-time”.
In addition, the biggest fallacy of the Health Code system is the assumption that everybody is sick, so that they would need to prove that they are healthy. Otherwise, they may risk becoming the public bads and losing their personal freedom. While Beijing would have successfully made Hong Kong people rat out each other, many would be willing to act as the "health police" of the totalitarian regime to identify those who refuse to comply with the rule, hence assisting the implementation of the Social Credit System to its perfection.
Source: 作者 #Aug9
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3422735741109873&id=972393926144079
Graphic:
http://myblogs.asia/view2/69340/
#FailedState #TotalitarianRegime #CoronavirusPandemic #CCPControl #WhiteTerror #HealthPolice
European Union: Deny the election results in Belarus, Sanction for Election Fraud and People who Suppressed the Protesters
Source: Stand News #Aug9
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European Union: Deny the election results in Belarus, Sanction for Election Fraud and People who Suppressed the Protesters
Started from the Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko was alleged manipulation of the election, the local citizens protested for consecutive days, injured hundreds of demonstrators, two people dead, around 7,000 people were under arrest. According to the Reuters reported, today (19th August) the president of European Council Charles Michel signified, the European Union denies the election result in Belarus, and impends sanctions on participants in election fraud and suppressed demonstrations.
The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Joseph Burrell also pointed out, Alexander Lukashenko lack of the governing legitimacy of democracy. He believed that the European Union would punish and reject the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.
According to the report from the Bloomberg, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel also described today, Belarus election was not free and not fair, EU leaders did not accept the result of Belarus Election. She also said, she could not contact Alexander Lukashenko, and the EU failed to request Belarus do the election again.
The opposition did not satisfy with the official result of the election, questioning the fraud of election and its legitimacy. The official said Lukashenko got 80 per cent of votes, but the opposition presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who fled to Lithuania, just got approximately 10 per cent of votes. However, the short film published on Monday said she had 60-70 per cent of votes. There was no independent group monitoring the process in this presidential election.
Post-election protests injured hundreds of demonstrators, two people dead, around 7,000 people were under arrest with many passersby. Many people were mistreated after being arrested. The international community violently bombarded by the Belarusian government, then the Lukashenko government’s attitude softened at the end. Some officials apologised for the indiscriminate arrest and released most of the arrested people. More than 100,000 people gathered in the capital Minsk last weekend. This was the largest demonstration in Belarus since the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1990.
#Belarus #Election #EU #Lukashenko #Protest
Source: Stand News #Aug9
https://bit.ly/3b6sAtP
Started from the Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko was alleged manipulation of the election, the local citizens protested for consecutive days, injured hundreds of demonstrators, two people dead, around 7,000 people were under arrest. According to the Reuters reported, today (19th August) the president of European Council Charles Michel signified, the European Union denies the election result in Belarus, and impends sanctions on participants in election fraud and suppressed demonstrations.
The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Joseph Burrell also pointed out, Alexander Lukashenko lack of the governing legitimacy of democracy. He believed that the European Union would punish and reject the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.
According to the report from the Bloomberg, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel also described today, Belarus election was not free and not fair, EU leaders did not accept the result of Belarus Election. She also said, she could not contact Alexander Lukashenko, and the EU failed to request Belarus do the election again.
The opposition did not satisfy with the official result of the election, questioning the fraud of election and its legitimacy. The official said Lukashenko got 80 per cent of votes, but the opposition presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who fled to Lithuania, just got approximately 10 per cent of votes. However, the short film published on Monday said she had 60-70 per cent of votes. There was no independent group monitoring the process in this presidential election.
Post-election protests injured hundreds of demonstrators, two people dead, around 7,000 people were under arrest with many passersby. Many people were mistreated after being arrested. The international community violently bombarded by the Belarusian government, then the Lukashenko government’s attitude softened at the end. Some officials apologised for the indiscriminate arrest and released most of the arrested people. More than 100,000 people gathered in the capital Minsk last weekend. This was the largest demonstration in Belarus since the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1990.
#Belarus #Election #EU #Lukashenko #Protest
Source: Stand News #Aug9
https://bit.ly/3b6sAtP