#PressConference
HK Government Finally Orders Quarantining People Entering Hong Kong From China

The Hong Kong Government announced new requirement to quarantine any person entering Hong Kong from China for 14 days. The measure will be effective at midnight of Feb 8. The Kai Tak Cruise Terminal and the Harbour City Cruise Terminal will be closed.

Despite that, the government insisted to leave the Hong Kong-China borders open amidst public demand and the strike action by medical workers.

According to Carrie Lam on Feb 4, she personally reviewed every official who was going to meet the media. Masks, even being worn by officials, should be removed, said Carrie Lam; however, at the press conference on Feb 5, more than half of the government officials present, including Secretary for Health and Food Prof. Sophia Chan were seen masked.

Source: Stand News; Now News #Feb5
#FaceMask #Quarantine #Borders

Where are the CSI masks - a classic Rashomon case? https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16679

#ChinesePneumonia
People from China rushing through Hong Kong borders by flights during “window period”, suspected to avoid mandatory quarantine

The Hong Kong government announced on Feb 5 that from
February 8 all visitors from China must undergo a mandatory quarantine for 14 days in Hong Kong.

A source from Hong Kong Airlines revealed that the reservation of flights from China to Hong Kong have risen remarkably to 76-85% on February 6 and overbooked to 102-105% on February 7.

In other words, February 6 and 7 has become a “window period" for people to leave China while avoiding mandatory quarantine in Hong Kong.

Read full story: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16767

Source: Apple Daily #Feb6 #Borders

People from China rushing through Hong Kong borders by flights during “window period”, suspected to avoid mandatory quarantine

The HKSAR government announced on February 5 that starting from Saturday, February 8 all visitors from China must undergo a mandatory quarantine for 14 days in Hong Kong.

February 6 and 7 hence becomes a “window period" for people to leave China while avoiding mandatory quarantine in Hong Kong.

A source from Hong Kong Airlines revealed that the reservation of flights from China to Hong Kong has risen remarkably to 76-85% on February 6 and was overbooked to 102-105% on February 7.

Comparing HX337 and HX313 both operated by Hong Kong Airlines on February 7, the booking rates of the two flights have a drastic difference between 91% (including business class) and 23% as to their respective arrival time at Hong Kong at 15:55 and 23:35.

The 63 passengers on HX313 would only be able to avoid the mandatory quarantine in Hong Kong, if their plane could arrive on time and they must also complete the immigration process within 25 minutes before the new restriction kicks in at midnight.

Source: Apple Daily
https://hk.finance.appledaily.com/finance/realtime/article/20200206/60567361

#Feb6 #ChinesePneumonia #GlobalOutbreak #Borders #Quarantine

#Borders #HealthCrisis
Pneumonia Patient Entered Hong Kong from China before the Compulsory Quarantine Becomes Effective

At 07:46 on Feb 7, a 8-year-old boy crossed the borders from China to Hong Kong. He then fell instantly ill and was rushed to the hospital's isolation ward in an ambulance. It is still unclear whether he is infected with the novel coronavirus.

According to the medical staff in Tuen Mun hospital, the boy’s family told the hospital he was being treated in a Fujian hospital and had to undergo intubation. After hearing about the compulsory quarantine to take place in Hong Kong on Feb 8, they stopped the treatment and rushed him across the border at Shenzhen Bay, one of the three ports that are open.

The X-ray images of the boy’s lungs indicated that he suffered from severe pneumonia. He also has a condition of Congenital heart defect.

Source: Apple Daily #Feb7
https://s.nextmedia.com/realtime/a.php?i=20200207&s=10829391&a=60570732
#Pneumonia

#Strike
Hong Kong Medics Decide to Put Strike on Hold to Stand Guard for Enormous Crowds Squeezing Through Borders to Avoid Mandatory Quarantine

Stepping into the 5th also the last day of medics strike initiated by the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (#HAEA) to put pressure on the Government to lockdown all Hong Kong borders with China, in order to curb the deadly Coronavirus from spreading across the border; otherwise, a community outbreak can crumble the already-overloaded medical facilities in Hong Kong.

HAEA members were asked to cast their votes on February 7 on whether to extend the strike, which requires support from 6,000 members.

More than 7,000 members casted their votes. Winnie Yu Wai-ming, chair of HAEA said in the evening that about 3,000 members supported continuing the strike while 3,600 voted to resume work. She therefore announced to put the strike on hold but stressed the pursuit for five demands would continue.

Turning a deaf ear to many experts’ advice to seal borders with China, Carrie Lam's Administration announced implementation of a mandatory 14-day quarantine period effective on February 8 for Chinese travelers, which created a 2.5-day-window period on February 6 and 7. Crowds of people appeared in airport and land ports attempting to enter Hong Kong before the new restriction takes effect. The chaotic situation at the borders was compared to fleeing soldiers in the movie "Dunkirk".

Watch video: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16807

During the "window period", several flights of Hong Kong Airlines from Chinese cities to Hong Kong were unusually full of booking up to 105%. Large crowds flowing through Shenzhen Bay border caused serious congestions which could risk triggering wider spread of the epidemic.

Source: Apple Daily
#Feb7 #ChinesePneumonia #GlobalOutbreak #MandatoryQuarantine

#Borders #HealthCrisis
Enormous Crowds from China Squeezing Through Borders to Avoid Mandatory Quarantine effective in Hong Kong on Feb 8

The measure to quarantine any person goinh to Hong Kong from China for 14 days was announced by the Hong Kong Government on Feb 5.

From Feb 5 to the midnight of Feb 8, the passengers crossing the borders from China to Hong Kong increase significantly.

The video captures traffic jam in China, with many cars heading to Shenzhen Bay port, one of the three ports between Hong Kong and China that the government refuses to close.

As of Feb 8 HKT08:00, at least 34,000 cases of Wuhan pneumonia are confirmed in China and over 710 deaths are reported.

Source: Now News; Internet https://www.facebook.com/110776013598523/posts/185137262829064/?vh=e&d=n

Hong Kong Medics Decide to Put Strike on Hold to Stand Guard
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16806

#FirstHand #Fotan #HongKongProtests
The Carrie Lam adminstration Asked "Hong Kong people" to fight against the epidemic, but since when the unelected government recognise its people?

1735 | Fo Tan
In his speech, Jimmy Sham of Civil Human Rights Front delineated several points as food for thought:

- What is the actual situation in China?
The lack of transparency of the Chinese authorities and the ongoing problem of censorship have made it difficult for the world to handle the epidemic crisis with accurate measures and decisions.

- The Carrie Lam adminstration asked "the people of Hong Kong" to fight against the epidemic, but since when the unelected government of Hong Kong recognise its people and the identity of Hong Kong people as they are?

The Hong Kong government still refused to close Hong Kong borders with China, despite the demands of the population. Sham emphasized that the lack of truth is the real cause of the terror stirred up in the city.

#FailedState #CHRF #CarrieLam #Borders

#Borders #FailedState
Growth in Passenger Traffic From China to Hong Kong Despite Coronavirus Outbreak: 65% Increase in the In-flow of Non-Hong Kong Residents

While Hong Kong-China borders remain open, passenger traffic has increased despite that compulsory quarantine measures were imposed on February 8. This disproves Carrie Lam's claim made on Feb 14 that about the decrease in the cross-border inflow of people into Hong Kong.

In fact, apart from the first two days after the quarantine measure was in effect, passenger traffic at the Shenzhen Bay port has continued to increase.

As of Feb 14, the quarantine centers have been occupied by 67%.

Source: Stand News #Feb15
http://bit.ly/2Hq45JV

#HealthCrisis #GovernanceCrisis #ChinesePneumonia

#Borders #ChinesePneumonia #Discrimination
Hong Kong Government's Discriminative Treatment: Open Borders with China; Ban Entry of Passengers from South Korea

Many people in Hong Kong asked, "What about China?".

On February 24, the Hong Kong government announced its policy of prohibiting passengers from South Korea, including those who have travelled to South Korea in the past 14 days, from entering Hong Kong starting from 6 am on February 25.

Until then, the Hong Kong-China borders remain open, despite the local population's vocal demands to have it closed.

As of February 24, there have been 833 cases of Wuhan pneumonia in South Korea and nearly 77,000 cases reported in China.

Meanwhile, China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism told PRC nationals not to go to the United States for the "unfair treatment" they would receive.

Source: Stand News; Now News
#Feb24 #ChineseDiplomacy #PRC #SouthKorea #HongKong

#Report #ChinaDream
China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory

By Robert Barnett

//In October 2015, China announced that a new village, called Gyalaphug in Tibetan or Jieluobu in Chinese, had been established in the south of the #Tibet Autonomous Region (#TAR)...

#Gyalaphug is, however, different: It is in #Bhutan. Wu and a retinue of officials, police, and journalists had crossed an international border. They were in a 232-square-mile area claimed by China since the early 1980s but internationally understood as part of Lhuntse district in northern Bhutan. The Chinese officials were visiting to celebrate their success, unnoticed by the world, in planting settlers, security personnel, and military infrastructure within territory internationally and historically understood to be Bhutanese...

This new construction is part of a major drive by Chinese President #XiJinPing since 2017 to fortify the Tibetan borderlands, a dramatic escalation in China’s long-running efforts to outmaneuver India and its neighbors along their Himalayan frontiers. In this case, China doesn’t need the land it is settling in Bhutan: Its aim is to force the Bhutanese government to cede territory that China wants elsewhere in Bhutan to give Beijing a military advantage in its struggle with New Delhi.

Gyalaphug is now one of three new villages (two already occupied, one under construction), 66 miles of new roads, a small hydropower station, two Communist Party administrative centers, a communications base, a disaster relief warehouse, five military or police outposts, and what are believed to be a major signals tower, a satellite receiving station, a military base, and up to six security sites and outposts that China has constructed in what it says are parts of Lhodrak in the TAR but which in fact are in the far north of Bhutan....

Today all of the Menchuma Valley and most of the Beyul are controlled by China. Both are being settled. Together, they constitute 1 percent of Bhutan’s territory; if it were to lose them, it would be comparable to the United States losing Maine or Kentucky...

In Chinese, the term for so-called salami-slicing tactics—slowly cutting off  piece by piece of other nations’ territory—is can shi, or “nibbling like a silkworm.” It’s serious business: The belief that India was gnawing at fragments of China’s territory drove Mao to launch the 1962 Sino-Indian War. And the converse of the phrase is jing tun, “swallowing like a whale.” The small bites of the silkworm can turn into crushing jaws...//

Read the full reportage:
http://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/07/china-bhutan-border-villages-security-forces/

Source: Foreigh Policy #May7

#Invasion #Tianxia #AllUnderHeaven #Beijing #Expansion #CCPRules #Bhutan #PeacefulRise #CanShi #Borders