#Report
"Coloured water" Splashed by the HK Police Might Contain More than just Colourings, According to Greenpeace
Greepeace is running laboratory tests on the sample obtained from the blue-dye water cannon splashed by the Hong Kong police. Although the police called it "coloured water", citizens including former chairman of the Indian Association of Hong Kong Mohan Chugani and reporters who were splashed on suffered from reactions such as burning sensation.
According to Green Peace, initial results shows that the "coloured water" contains at least pigments and adhesives. Although the ingredients of "coloured water", and whether it contains harmful or toxic substances cannot be accurately determined at the moment, from various documents such as "Legislative Council Panel on Security Specialised Crowd Management", international references like "Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agent", expert advice and ciitzens' physical reactions after contacting, it is speculated that the "coloured water" might contain harmful teargas solutions (also containing Pelargonic Acid Vanillylamide Solution) or two other types of tear-provoking solutions CN (Chloroacetophenone) and CS (2-Chlorobenzylidene malononitrile). The water cannon shot by the Hong Kong Police is believed to contain not just colourings.
Despite that, in thoery, the "coloured water" has a lower fatal risk, it still causes severe and immediate discomfort to the human body. For example, the tear-provoking solution (Pelargonic Acid Vanillylamide Solution) has similar effect as pepper spray (Oleoresin capsicum).
According to the clinical research from "Hong Kong Medical Journal" on pepper sprays [Note 1], the solution has direct impact on the eyes and the respiratory system as follows:
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➡️Eyes: Edema or erythema on eyelid, eye and face convulsions, blurred eyesight, cornea abrasion and tearing
➡️Respiratory System:
Impacts on throat, pulmonary edema and chemical pneumonia but are not common.
➡️The entire body: Research suggests individual cases had included symtoms like loss of direction, fear, loss of body control (for example, decline of eye and hand coordination), hyperventilation, tachycardia and pulmonary edema.
According to "Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents", the "coloured water" may also be mixed with two types of tear-provoking toxic solutions CN (Chloroacetophenone) and CS (2-Chlorobenzylidene malononitrile), where the former is higher in toxicity [Note 2]. Both solutions have severe impact on the skin. The effect might fade away at its shortest time within an hour; however, if exposed to a highly concentrated dosage, the irritations can last up to four weeks. In severe cases, it can also cause first to second degree chemical burns. The following is an overview of the effects upon exposure:
➡️Skin: erythema, itchiness, subcutaneous edema, abnormal feelings of scorching heat, potentially inducing allergic reactions like contact dermatitis. If the skin is already moisted or damaged, the effect of intoxination is more obvious.
➡️Respiratory System: allergic inflammation, sneezing or causalgia, causing the feeling of burning pain and an increase of saliva, laryngitis and glossalgia. Severe pulmonary edema and bronchitis are potentially caused.
➡️Eyes: Permanent eye injuries, vesicle.
Note 1：Yeung, M., & Tang, W. Y. (2015). Clinicopathological effects of pepper (oleoresin capsicum) spray. Hong Kong Medical Journal.
Note 2：Gupta, & Ramesh, C. (2009). Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents. Academic Press.
Original Article by Green Peace, Oct 24, https://bit.ly/363fFpB
Source: StandNews
#WaterCannon #Greenpeace #PoliceBrutality
"Coloured water" Splashed by the HK Police Might Contain More than just Colourings, According to Greenpeace
Greepeace is running laboratory tests on the sample obtained from the blue-dye water cannon splashed by the Hong Kong police. Although the police called it "coloured water", citizens including former chairman of the Indian Association of Hong Kong Mohan Chugani and reporters who were splashed on suffered from reactions such as burning sensation.
According to Green Peace, initial results shows that the "coloured water" contains at least pigments and adhesives. Although the ingredients of "coloured water", and whether it contains harmful or toxic substances cannot be accurately determined at the moment, from various documents such as "Legislative Council Panel on Security Specialised Crowd Management", international references like "Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agent", expert advice and ciitzens' physical reactions after contacting, it is speculated that the "coloured water" might contain harmful teargas solutions (also containing Pelargonic Acid Vanillylamide Solution) or two other types of tear-provoking solutions CN (Chloroacetophenone) and CS (2-Chlorobenzylidene malononitrile). The water cannon shot by the Hong Kong Police is believed to contain not just colourings.
Despite that, in thoery, the "coloured water" has a lower fatal risk, it still causes severe and immediate discomfort to the human body. For example, the tear-provoking solution (Pelargonic Acid Vanillylamide Solution) has similar effect as pepper spray (Oleoresin capsicum).
According to the clinical research from "Hong Kong Medical Journal" on pepper sprays [Note 1], the solution has direct impact on the eyes and the respiratory system as follows:
c
➡️Eyes: Edema or erythema on eyelid, eye and face convulsions, blurred eyesight, cornea abrasion and tearing
➡️Respiratory System:
Impacts on throat, pulmonary edema and chemical pneumonia but are not common.
➡️The entire body: Research suggests individual cases had included symtoms like loss of direction, fear, loss of body control (for example, decline of eye and hand coordination), hyperventilation, tachycardia and pulmonary edema.
According to "Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents", the "coloured water" may also be mixed with two types of tear-provoking toxic solutions CN (Chloroacetophenone) and CS (2-Chlorobenzylidene malononitrile), where the former is higher in toxicity [Note 2]. Both solutions have severe impact on the skin. The effect might fade away at its shortest time within an hour; however, if exposed to a highly concentrated dosage, the irritations can last up to four weeks. In severe cases, it can also cause first to second degree chemical burns. The following is an overview of the effects upon exposure:
➡️Skin: erythema, itchiness, subcutaneous edema, abnormal feelings of scorching heat, potentially inducing allergic reactions like contact dermatitis. If the skin is already moisted or damaged, the effect of intoxination is more obvious.
➡️Respiratory System: allergic inflammation, sneezing or causalgia, causing the feeling of burning pain and an increase of saliva, laryngitis and glossalgia. Severe pulmonary edema and bronchitis are potentially caused.
➡️Eyes: Permanent eye injuries, vesicle.
Note 1：Yeung, M., & Tang, W. Y. (2015). Clinicopathological effects of pepper (oleoresin capsicum) spray. Hong Kong Medical Journal.
Note 2：Gupta, & Ramesh, C. (2009). Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents. Academic Press.
Original Article by Green Peace, Oct 24, https://bit.ly/363fFpB
Source: StandNews
#WaterCannon #Greenpeace #PoliceBrutality
Tear Gas Analysis in HK Dec 6.pdf
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Report by National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI): The Promise of Democratization in Hong Kong: Discontent and Rule of Law Challenges
Read:
https://www.ndi.org/sites/default/files/Final_04.11.20_The%20Promise%20of%20Democratization%20in%20Hong%20Kong.pdf
Report by National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI): The Promise of Democratization in Hong Kong: Discontent and Rule of Law Challenges
Read:
https://www.ndi.org/sites/default/files/Final_04.11.20_The%20Promise%20of%20Democratization%20in%20Hong%20Kong.pdf
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Our Financial Stalingrad against China
Editor’s Note: This is the first battle of Financial war by fellows in the financial sector.
We are a group of Hong Kong citizens concerned with the financial well-being of our city. When CUHK and PolyU were under siege last November, we launched a precision strike on Megvii Technology, a CCP-controled technology giant. We now declare that we have successfully strangled Megvii’s IPO plan to death, incurring them a loss of US$500 million.
As a Made in China 2025 frontrunner, Megvii is culpable for mass surveillance and suppression of Uighurs in Xinjiang. Not deterred by existing US sanctions, Megvii played dirty tricks in order to get listed in Hong Kong. This has alarmed much of Central and caught the attention of the US Treasury.
It is most delightful to watch one fall in the last mile. At the eve of Megvii’s hearing, we had voiced our concerns of it violating the listing regulations of HKEX as one. Tens of thousands of complaint later, we are relieved by the abortion of Megvii’s IPO, in no small part due to your wise decisions.
With neither chips nor dollars, Megvii has been effectively contained, a unicorn stranded in the humanitarian wasteland of Xinjiang.
We are also relieved to see that Sensetime, another Made in China 2025 candidate, has immediately suspended its IPO plan for Hong Kong, incurring a loss of US$750 million. We learnt that many Xinjiang- or Big Tech-related CCP firms are now having second thoughts about a Hong Kong listing.
However, such relieves are only temporary. As you and your esteemed colleagues has long realized, the maintenance of Hong Kong’s financial salient is a constant battle.
From time immemorial, Hong Kong has been the sole USD lifeline for the People’s Republic of China. If Beijing is set to destroy Hong Kong, we will destroy all of China, and we will know where the real stake lies. Now in the shadow of the National Security Law, the US is actively considering imposing financial sanctions on China. If China continues to free-ride on Hong Kong’s USD access, I fear we cannot but contemplate sanctions on HKEX, something no sane person wants to see.
To Beijing: You can either have the Law or an international financial centre. You cannot have your cake and eat it. Nothing is simpler than this.
Our words to China Concepts Stocks: Hong Kong is not your backyard. Nor is Hong Kong your USD ATM. What we do to Megvii, we are ready to do it to you. You have been warned.
In trust of your judgement,
Hong Kong Protestors
Souce: LIHKG, (28-May)
https://lih.kg/2038608
#Finance #MegviiTechnology #Xinjiang #Uighurs #Surveillance #HKEX #NationalSecurityLaw #MadeIbChina2025 #ChinaConceptsStocks
Our Financial Stalingrad against China
Editor’s Note: This is the first battle of Financial war by fellows in the financial sector.
We are a group of Hong Kong citizens concerned with the financial well-being of our city. When CUHK and PolyU were under siege last November, we launched a precision strike on Megvii Technology, a CCP-controled technology giant. We now declare that we have successfully strangled Megvii’s IPO plan to death, incurring them a loss of US$500 million.
As a Made in China 2025 frontrunner, Megvii is culpable for mass surveillance and suppression of Uighurs in Xinjiang. Not deterred by existing US sanctions, Megvii played dirty tricks in order to get listed in Hong Kong. This has alarmed much of Central and caught the attention of the US Treasury.
It is most delightful to watch one fall in the last mile. At the eve of Megvii’s hearing, we had voiced our concerns of it violating the listing regulations of HKEX as one. Tens of thousands of complaint later, we are relieved by the abortion of Megvii’s IPO, in no small part due to your wise decisions.
With neither chips nor dollars, Megvii has been effectively contained, a unicorn stranded in the humanitarian wasteland of Xinjiang.
We are also relieved to see that Sensetime, another Made in China 2025 candidate, has immediately suspended its IPO plan for Hong Kong, incurring a loss of US$750 million. We learnt that many Xinjiang- or Big Tech-related CCP firms are now having second thoughts about a Hong Kong listing.
However, such relieves are only temporary. As you and your esteemed colleagues has long realized, the maintenance of Hong Kong’s financial salient is a constant battle.
From time immemorial, Hong Kong has been the sole USD lifeline for the People’s Republic of China. If Beijing is set to destroy Hong Kong, we will destroy all of China, and we will know where the real stake lies. Now in the shadow of the National Security Law, the US is actively considering imposing financial sanctions on China. If China continues to free-ride on Hong Kong’s USD access, I fear we cannot but contemplate sanctions on HKEX, something no sane person wants to see.
To Beijing: You can either have the Law or an international financial centre. You cannot have your cake and eat it. Nothing is simpler than this.
Our words to China Concepts Stocks: Hong Kong is not your backyard. Nor is Hong Kong your USD ATM. What we do to Megvii, we are ready to do it to you. You have been warned.
In trust of your judgement,
Hong Kong Protestors
Souce: LIHKG, (28-May)
https://lih.kg/2038608
#Finance #MegviiTechnology #Xinjiang #Uighurs #Surveillance #HKEX #NationalSecurityLaw #MadeIbChina2025 #ChinaConceptsStocks
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我哋係一班金融界嘅手足，喺舊年十一月中大理大圍城嘅時候，發動咗針對中共龍頭企業曠視科技(Megvii Technology)嘅手術式打擊。依家正式宣布：曠視喺香港上市申請五月二十六號已經過期，上市計劃完美破滅，損失總值40億港元 (link: https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/megvii-lets-hong-kong-ipo-application-lapse-again…
#Newspaper
WHO admits China never reported the existence of coronavirus outbreak
//The World Health Organization backtracked on its assertion that the Chinese government alerted the United Nations agency about the coronavirus outbreak.
//“despite public reporting to the contrary... China never notified the WHO about the outbreak in Wuhan.” The change was spotted by McCaul and first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.
//“I’m glad to see the WHO and the Chinese Communist Party have both read my interim report on the origins of the pandemic and are finally admitting to the world the truth — the CCP never reported the virus outbreak to the WHO in violation of WHO regulations,”
//McCaul’s June report said the WHO found out about the coronavirus outbreak when Chinese media reports about an atypical pneumonia outbreak began to leak online and that the organization also discovered a post on the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, a U.S.-based open-access platform for early intelligence about outbreaks, on the last day of 2019.
//There's evidence that China covered up the coronavirus's spread, muzzled whistleblowers, intimidated doctors, misled the WHO, and blocked outside health experts. China knew by late 2019 that human-to-human transmission was occurring, but on Jan. 14, the WHO tweeted: “Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.”
//In April, the U.S. Intelligence Community was reported to believe the Chinese Communist Party downplayed the outbreak and that China continued to mislead the world.
//Numerous news outlets reported that China directly alerted the WHO about the coronavirus outbreak on Dec. 31, and the WHO never publicly sought to correct the record.
//China repeatedly claimed it had reported the outbreak to the WHO, including as recently as early June through the state-run China Daily, but Beijing appears to have backed off this assertion
//The 50-page report highlighted China's “failures to share accurate information” and its “suppression of voices seeking to warn the world.” GOP investigators concluded Chinese President Xi Jinping was aware that a pandemic was underway weeks before the public was warned.
//The WHO “enabled the CCP cover-up ... while at the same time praising the CCP’s response,” according to GOP investigators, who also determined "the COVID-19 global pandemic could have been prevented if the CCP acted in a transparent and responsible manner."
Full Article: Washington Examiner, (02-Jul)
#WHO #Coronavirus #China #Report #backtracked #Xi
WHO admits China never reported the existence of coronavirus outbreak
//The World Health Organization backtracked on its assertion that the Chinese government alerted the United Nations agency about the coronavirus outbreak.
//“despite public reporting to the contrary... China never notified the WHO about the outbreak in Wuhan.” The change was spotted by McCaul and first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.
//“I’m glad to see the WHO and the Chinese Communist Party have both read my interim report on the origins of the pandemic and are finally admitting to the world the truth — the CCP never reported the virus outbreak to the WHO in violation of WHO regulations,”
//McCaul’s June report said the WHO found out about the coronavirus outbreak when Chinese media reports about an atypical pneumonia outbreak began to leak online and that the organization also discovered a post on the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, a U.S.-based open-access platform for early intelligence about outbreaks, on the last day of 2019.
//There's evidence that China covered up the coronavirus's spread, muzzled whistleblowers, intimidated doctors, misled the WHO, and blocked outside health experts. China knew by late 2019 that human-to-human transmission was occurring, but on Jan. 14, the WHO tweeted: “Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.”
//In April, the U.S. Intelligence Community was reported to believe the Chinese Communist Party downplayed the outbreak and that China continued to mislead the world.
//Numerous news outlets reported that China directly alerted the WHO about the coronavirus outbreak on Dec. 31, and the WHO never publicly sought to correct the record.
//China repeatedly claimed it had reported the outbreak to the WHO, including as recently as early June through the state-run China Daily, but Beijing appears to have backed off this assertion
//The 50-page report highlighted China's “failures to share accurate information” and its “suppression of voices seeking to warn the world.” GOP investigators concluded Chinese President Xi Jinping was aware that a pandemic was underway weeks before the public was warned.
//The WHO “enabled the CCP cover-up ... while at the same time praising the CCP’s response,” according to GOP investigators, who also determined "the COVID-19 global pandemic could have been prevented if the CCP acted in a transparent and responsible manner."
Full Article: Washington Examiner, (02-Jul)
#WHO #Coronavirus #China #Report #backtracked #Xi
Washington Examiner
WHO admits China never reported the existence of coronavirus outbreak
The World Health Organization backtracked on its assertion that the Chinese government alerted the United Nations agency about the coronavirus outbreak.
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China’s propaganda machine permeates the world, how “little pinks” and “red communist apps” are weaponized
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China’s propaganda machine permeates the world, how “little pinks” and “red communist apps” are weaponized
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Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs refutes that the American Congressional-Executive Commission’s report is “Passages of lies, a paper scrap “
(2 Dec) On the 2nd of December, the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (hereinafter referred to as the Office) issued a statement criticizing the annual report published by the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), which is under the US Congress, is “a pack of lies and a scrap of paper”. The Office said it was interference to Chinese internal politics and Hong Kong’s internal affairs, as the report suggested covering for Hong Kongers and imposing economic sanctions. “Again, the US demonstrates the “US bully” across the world and its ugliness.”
In the report, the USCC stated that the “One Country, Two System” promised by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is being undermined with the establishment of National Security Law in Hong Kong. The Office rebutted the accusation “mouthful nonsense and transposing black and white”, and that there is a similar law in the US. “The National Security Law in Hong Kong is supported by 1.4 billion Chinese fellow nationals, including Hong Kongers and from international communities. Hong Kong is going to meet the breakthrough of turning from chaos back to peaceful public order through the legislation of the law “, said the Office. (Editor’s note: According to “One Country, Two System” committed by the CCP, all laws, including National Security Law, shall be designed and enacted by local legislation instead of Beijing; the current National Security Law was enacted by Beijing directly without consultation and process through Hong Kong’s legislation.)
The Office further criticized that the act of revoking Hong Kong’s independent tariff status by the US was for eroding the business development in Hong Kong and backing the “Lam Chau party” (Editor’s note: The name “Lam Chau” means “fail together” in direct translation, it is believed that the term originated from the screen capture of the scene “If we burn, you burn with us” from the Hunger Games series, that was used by Hong Kongers to express their anger toward the government on the internet. It then became an unofficial party named by the pro-Beijing party, referring to the group of pro-democracy Hong Kongers that, in their opinions, always try to put Hong Kong in danger and create mutual assured destruction together with Hong Kong and the CCP) and the criminals (meaning the pro-democracy protesters) to against the Hong Kong government, describing that it is the US destroying rules and causing troubles to Hong Kong and China.
The Office continued that the CCP is taking right and justice steps to resume the peace and public order in Hong Kong, but the US always “protect and well treat those criminals (meaning the pro-democracy protesters and citizens) who are against the CCP and Hong Kong” by imposing economic sanctions. The Office further mentioned that the report takes no credibility and must become a piece of trash in the history, stating that Hong Kong is closely connected to the CCP and advising the US senators to give up as soon as possible, otherwise they are only bring held up as an object of ridicule.
In the latest annual report by the USCC, it stated that Hong Kong is governed by the CCP’s tyranny more directly and comprehensively through the National Security Law in Hong Kong, which would change the relationship between Hong Kong and other democratic countries including the US. The USCC suggested the US Congress lower the requirements of US visa application for Hong Kongers who are persecuted by the CCP.
Source: The Stand News
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#China #UnitedStates #MinistryofForeignAffairs #CongressionalExecutiveCommission #Report
(2 Dec) On the 2nd of December, the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (hereinafter referred to as the Office) issued a statement criticizing the annual report published by the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), which is under the US Congress, is “a pack of lies and a scrap of paper”. The Office said it was interference to Chinese internal politics and Hong Kong’s internal affairs, as the report suggested covering for Hong Kongers and imposing economic sanctions. “Again, the US demonstrates the “US bully” across the world and its ugliness.”
In the report, the USCC stated that the “One Country, Two System” promised by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is being undermined with the establishment of National Security Law in Hong Kong. The Office rebutted the accusation “mouthful nonsense and transposing black and white”, and that there is a similar law in the US. “The National Security Law in Hong Kong is supported by 1.4 billion Chinese fellow nationals, including Hong Kongers and from international communities. Hong Kong is going to meet the breakthrough of turning from chaos back to peaceful public order through the legislation of the law “, said the Office. (Editor’s note: According to “One Country, Two System” committed by the CCP, all laws, including National Security Law, shall be designed and enacted by local legislation instead of Beijing; the current National Security Law was enacted by Beijing directly without consultation and process through Hong Kong’s legislation.)
The Office further criticized that the act of revoking Hong Kong’s independent tariff status by the US was for eroding the business development in Hong Kong and backing the “Lam Chau party” (Editor’s note: The name “Lam Chau” means “fail together” in direct translation, it is believed that the term originated from the screen capture of the scene “If we burn, you burn with us” from the Hunger Games series, that was used by Hong Kongers to express their anger toward the government on the internet. It then became an unofficial party named by the pro-Beijing party, referring to the group of pro-democracy Hong Kongers that, in their opinions, always try to put Hong Kong in danger and create mutual assured destruction together with Hong Kong and the CCP) and the criminals (meaning the pro-democracy protesters) to against the Hong Kong government, describing that it is the US destroying rules and causing troubles to Hong Kong and China.
The Office continued that the CCP is taking right and justice steps to resume the peace and public order in Hong Kong, but the US always “protect and well treat those criminals (meaning the pro-democracy protesters and citizens) who are against the CCP and Hong Kong” by imposing economic sanctions. The Office further mentioned that the report takes no credibility and must become a piece of trash in the history, stating that Hong Kong is closely connected to the CCP and advising the US senators to give up as soon as possible, otherwise they are only bring held up as an object of ridicule.
In the latest annual report by the USCC, it stated that Hong Kong is governed by the CCP’s tyranny more directly and comprehensively through the National Security Law in Hong Kong, which would change the relationship between Hong Kong and other democratic countries including the US. The USCC suggested the US Congress lower the requirements of US visa application for Hong Kongers who are persecuted by the CCP.
Source: The Stand News
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#China #UnitedStates #MinistryofForeignAffairs #CongressionalExecutiveCommission #Report
#Report #ChinaDream
China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory
Source: Foreigh Policy #May7
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China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory
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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
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
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China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory
Since 2015, a previously unnoticed network of roads, buildings, and military outposts has been constructed deep in a sacred valley in Bhutan.
Exclusive: US assessing reported leak at Chinese nuclear power facility
The US government has spent the past week assessing a report of a leak at a Chinese nuclear power plant, after a French company that part owns and helps operate it warned of an "imminent radiological threat," according to US officials and documents reviewed by CNN.
The warning included an accusation that the Chinese safety authority was raising the acceptable limits for radiation detection outside the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province in order to avoid having to shut it down, according to a letter from the French company to the US Department of Energy obtained by CNN.
Source: CNN #Jun14
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/06/14/politics/china-nuclear-reactor-leak-us-monitoring/index.html
#Chinese #Nuclear #Leak #Report
The US government has spent the past week assessing a report of a leak at a Chinese nuclear power plant, after a French company that part owns and helps operate it warned of an "imminent radiological threat," according to US officials and documents reviewed by CNN.
The warning included an accusation that the Chinese safety authority was raising the acceptable limits for radiation detection outside the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province in order to avoid having to shut it down, according to a letter from the French company to the US Department of Energy obtained by CNN.
Source: CNN #Jun14
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/06/14/politics/china-nuclear-reactor-leak-us-monitoring/index.html
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#NeverForget
"Tracing the Source" - 7.21 Yuen Long Attack Investigative Report by Stand News
Source: Stand News
Caption Translation: Real Hong Kong News
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"Tracing the Source" - 7.21 Yuen Long Attack Investigative Report by Stand News
Source: Stand News
Caption Translation: Real Hong Kong News
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"Tracing the Source" - 7.21 Yuen Long Attack Investigative Report by Stand News
Days ahead of the 2-year anniversary of the 7.21 Yuen Long Attack, Stand News published a video report investigating the allegations from the pro-Beijing camp that the conflict was initiated by pro-democracy protesters.
English captions have been added by Real Hong Kong News. Watch the video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gch5ikVyI80
The report found that pro-Beijing groups and Hong Kong police, and the #IPCC all cited a poster calling for a protest in Yuen Long on 7.21, during the height of the 2019 anti-ELAB protests.
Notably, the IPCC's special investigation report was quoted in the court case of 7 pro-Beijing men charged for rioting on 7.21, the only alleged white-shirt attackers who have been charged to date.
However, HKU research found that the poster had first gone viral on Chinese social media platform #Weibo and other pro-Beijing groups, instead of the #LIHKG forum frequented by pro-democracy protesters.
When the poster later reached LIHKG, it was mostly met with skepticism; eventually being treated by commentators as fake information.
Pro-Beijing groups, however, had used the poster to stir up fears of "rioters" coming to Yuen Long, even calling on people to bring canes and water pipes to repel the presumed "invaders".
During the evening of 7.21 when the incensed mobs struck indiscriminately at civilians, multiple pro-Beijing figures were seen on the streets with the white-shirts. Pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho was also filmed encouraging and shaking hands with white-shirts.
Patrolling police officers were seen walking away from the sites where civilians were attacked.
Footage also showed Pak Heung Division Commander Li Hon-man mingling and thanking white-shirts who scuffled with pro-democracy citizens during the week leading up to the attack.
These, as well as other reports from that evening, contributed to public discontent and suspicion that the police force is colluding with the Triads.
Since then, Pro-Beijing groups have distanced themselves with the events of the night, and clung to the narrative that they were defending their homes from supposed incursion by the black shirts. When Stand News approached several leaders who had been identified in the night's footage, many declined to comment, or simply cut off the interview.
Some victims of the attack had sued the police force for reparations to cover the costs of surgery and long-term medications to treat their injuries; however, the Department of Justice called their claims "unreasonable". They had since withdrawn their case, since their lawyer - pro-democracy legislator Albert Ho - is now in jail, leaving them feeling helpless and deprived of justice.
Source: Stand News
Caption Translation: Real Hong Kong News
#YuenLong721 #StandNews #Documentation #Report
"Tracing the Source" - 7.21 Yuen Long Attack Investigative Report by Stand News
Days ahead of the 2-year anniversary of the 7.21 Yuen Long Attack, Stand News published a video report investigating the allegations from the pro-Beijing camp that the conflict was initiated by pro-democracy protesters.
English captions have been added by Real Hong Kong News. Watch the video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gch5ikVyI80
The report found that pro-Beijing groups and Hong Kong police, and the #IPCC all cited a poster calling for a protest in Yuen Long on 7.21, during the height of the 2019 anti-ELAB protests.
Notably, the IPCC's special investigation report was quoted in the court case of 7 pro-Beijing men charged for rioting on 7.21, the only alleged white-shirt attackers who have been charged to date.
However, HKU research found that the poster had first gone viral on Chinese social media platform #Weibo and other pro-Beijing groups, instead of the #LIHKG forum frequented by pro-democracy protesters.
When the poster later reached LIHKG, it was mostly met with skepticism; eventually being treated by commentators as fake information.
Pro-Beijing groups, however, had used the poster to stir up fears of "rioters" coming to Yuen Long, even calling on people to bring canes and water pipes to repel the presumed "invaders".
During the evening of 7.21 when the incensed mobs struck indiscriminately at civilians, multiple pro-Beijing figures were seen on the streets with the white-shirts. Pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho was also filmed encouraging and shaking hands with white-shirts.
Patrolling police officers were seen walking away from the sites where civilians were attacked.
Footage also showed Pak Heung Division Commander Li Hon-man mingling and thanking white-shirts who scuffled with pro-democracy citizens during the week leading up to the attack.
These, as well as other reports from that evening, contributed to public discontent and suspicion that the police force is colluding with the Triads.
Since then, Pro-Beijing groups have distanced themselves with the events of the night, and clung to the narrative that they were defending their homes from supposed incursion by the black shirts. When Stand News approached several leaders who had been identified in the night's footage, many declined to comment, or simply cut off the interview.
Some victims of the attack had sued the police force for reparations to cover the costs of surgery and long-term medications to treat their injuries; however, the Department of Justice called their claims "unreasonable". They had since withdrawn their case, since their lawyer - pro-democracy legislator Albert Ho - is now in jail, leaving them feeling helpless and deprived of justice.
Source: Stand News
Caption Translation: Real Hong Kong News
#YuenLong721 #StandNews #Documentation #Report
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Stand News: 7.21 Yuen Long Attack Investigation
Ahead of the 2nd Anniversary of the 7.21 Yuen Long Dark Night which happened during the months long anti-Extradition Bill Protest in #HongKong (also known as 7.21 Yuen Long Terrorist Attack), Stand News investigated the attack again hoping to find the truth.…
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US Report Condemns Judges Handpicked for National Security Cases in Hong Kong: Judiciary Independence "In Name Only"
The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (#USCC) released its annual report to the US Congress on November 18, 2021.
In the Chapter on Hong Kong, the Commission stated that Hong Kong's judiciary independence has been impaired under Beijing's imposition of the #NationalSecurityLaw.
The report also criticized that the judge's impartiality in handling national security law cases has been questioned. The report especially named three judges involved in such cases. They are District Court Judge Stanley CHAN Kwong-chi; Magistrate Victor SO Wai Tak; and judge Johnson Lam. These pro-establishment judges are handpicked by the Hong Kong authorities to handle national security charges.
The report reiterated that the National Security Law has impaired media freedon and subverted Hong Kong's social and political environment. The report pointed out that the independence of the judiciary in Hong Kong was "in name only," as the judiciary is no longer impartial especially when dealing with cases relating to the Chinese government under National Security Law.
To make It worse, Beijing decides which judges in which jurisdiction to trial national security cases, so as to ensure an outcome that is what the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) wants.
While US and Taiwan scholars commented that the possibility for the US to impose sanctions against Hong Kong judges shall not be ruled out, it takes time to evaluate the strategy. In any case, the "distrust" of the rule of law in Hong Kong will continue to be a concern of foreign companies and will seriously weaken Hong Kong's business status.
Full report:
https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/2021_Annual_Report_to_Congress.pdf
Source from: RFA #Nov19
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/htm/us-hk-11192021072903.html/ampRFA
#PoliceState #Freedom #USCongress #Beijing #Report #Court #Judges
US Report Condemns Judges Handpicked for National Security Cases in Hong Kong: Judiciary Independence "In Name Only"
The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (#USCC) released its annual report to the US Congress on November 18, 2021.
In the Chapter on Hong Kong, the Commission stated that Hong Kong's judiciary independence has been impaired under Beijing's imposition of the #NationalSecurityLaw.
The report also criticized that the judge's impartiality in handling national security law cases has been questioned. The report especially named three judges involved in such cases. They are District Court Judge Stanley CHAN Kwong-chi; Magistrate Victor SO Wai Tak; and judge Johnson Lam. These pro-establishment judges are handpicked by the Hong Kong authorities to handle national security charges.
The report reiterated that the National Security Law has impaired media freedon and subverted Hong Kong's social and political environment. The report pointed out that the independence of the judiciary in Hong Kong was "in name only," as the judiciary is no longer impartial especially when dealing with cases relating to the Chinese government under National Security Law.
To make It worse, Beijing decides which judges in which jurisdiction to trial national security cases, so as to ensure an outcome that is what the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) wants.
While US and Taiwan scholars commented that the possibility for the US to impose sanctions against Hong Kong judges shall not be ruled out, it takes time to evaluate the strategy. In any case, the "distrust" of the rule of law in Hong Kong will continue to be a concern of foreign companies and will seriously weaken Hong Kong's business status.
Full report:
https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/2021_Annual_Report_to_Congress.pdf
Source from: RFA #Nov19
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/htm/us-hk-11192021072903.html/ampRFA
#PoliceState #Freedom #USCongress #Beijing #Report #Court #Judges
IMF chief called out over pressure to favor China while at World Bank
World Bank leaders, including then-Chief Executive Kristalina Georgieva, applied "undue pressure" on staff to boost China's ranking in the bank's "Doing Business 2018" report, according to an independent investigation released Thursday.
The report, prepared by law firm WilmerHale at the request of the bank's ethics committee, raises concerns about China's influence at the World Bank, and the judgment of Georgieva - now managing director of the International Monetary Fund - and then-World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.
Source: Reuters #Sep17
https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/world-bank-kills-business-climate-report-after-ethics-probe-cites-undue-pressure-2021-09-16/
#China #Bank #JimYongKim #Report #IMF
World Bank leaders, including then-Chief Executive Kristalina Georgieva, applied "undue pressure" on staff to boost China's ranking in the bank's "Doing Business 2018" report, according to an independent investigation released Thursday.
The report, prepared by law firm WilmerHale at the request of the bank's ethics committee, raises concerns about China's influence at the World Bank, and the judgment of Georgieva - now managing director of the International Monetary Fund - and then-World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.
Source: Reuters #Sep17
https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/world-bank-kills-business-climate-report-after-ethics-probe-cites-undue-pressure-2021-09-16/
#China #Bank #JimYongKim #Report #IMF
China Fires Back at Reports of U.S. Commandos in Taiwan
See whether the PLA will launch a targeted air strike to eliminate those U.S. invaders!’ the chief of the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda outlet threatened on Thursday.
Some leaders in China almost immediately expressed outrage Thursday at a new report indicating the U.S. has secretly stationed forces on Taiwan in an attempt to bolster the island nation's defenses against the increasing likelihood of an attack from the mainland.
Source: USNews #Oct07
https://t.co/1Y0o3JNnje
#China #Taiwan #US #PLA #CCP #Report
See whether the PLA will launch a targeted air strike to eliminate those U.S. invaders!’ the chief of the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda outlet threatened on Thursday.
Some leaders in China almost immediately expressed outrage Thursday at a new report indicating the U.S. has secretly stationed forces on Taiwan in an attempt to bolster the island nation's defenses against the increasing likelihood of an attack from the mainland.
Source: USNews #Oct07
https://t.co/1Y0o3JNnje
#China #Taiwan #US #PLA #CCP #Report