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A future in which China no longer needs the world but the world cannot spin without it’

Chinese President Xi Jinping is probably the only national leader in the world who has managed to consolidate power despite facing the threat of the novel coronavirus.

Helped by the Chinese Communist party’s authoritarian one-party rule, he will continue to wield power as the country’s supreme leader over the next five years. Mr Xi’s extended reign and his ambitions could prove problematic for the incoming US president, Joe Biden.

The Chinese leader has been laying out his vision of a China-centric world since earlier this year. The speech he delivered at an early April meeting was recently published in the November 1 edition of party journal Qiushi. 

Source: The Financial Times #Dec16

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-scientific-collaboration-with-china-under-the-microscope-in-canada/

#China #XiJinping #CCP #US #President #JoeBiden.
#Censorship #Erasure
Chinese University of Hong Kong Deletes Content on General Education Salon

Source: Stand News #May4

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Chinese University of Hong Kong Deletes Content on General Education Salon

While the public broadcaster #RTHK was deleting programmes on YouTube, the General Education (#GE) Salon of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK) has also been found deleting its own videos on its Youtube channel.

It used to be a platform where professors share their knowledge relating to practical experiences in Hong Kong. The videos deleted include “1984 and the Brave New World” , “On Liberty” and Benny Tai's “the Rule of Law Culture”

Professor Chow Po-chung, a speaker on the channel and well-known public intellectual, is shocked by the news. “These are a kind of public resource! Of course I wish they can be left undeleted.”

Source: Stand News #May4
http://www.thestandnews.com/society/%E4%B8%AD%E5%A4%A7%E9%80%9A%E8%AD%98%E6%B2%99%E9%BE%8D%E6%95%B8%E5%8D%81%E6%A2%9D-youtube-%E7%89%87-%E6%B6%88%E5%A4%B1-%E5%8C%85%E6%8B%AC%E6%88%B4%E8%80%80%E5%BB%B7%E4%B8%BB%E8%AC%9B-%E6%B3%95%E6%B2%BB%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96-%E5%91%A8%E4%BF%9D%E6%9D%BE-%E9%A9%9A%E8%A8%9D/

#PoliceState #SelfCensorship #Youtube #GeneralEducation
Hongkongers are standing with Myanmar!! Milktea Alliance, fighting together!!!

#WhathappeninMyanmar #MilkteaAlliance #GoHKgraphics
Olympics sponsors duck questions over Beijing 2022 as boycott calls grow

Multinational companies sponsoring the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games are evading questions about their participation as China comes under intense pressure over the repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

As calls for a boycott of the event grow among activists, companies are increasingly being urged to take a stand over Xinjiang — at the same time as the Chinese government has encouraged boycotts of brands that speak out.

Letters from human rights groups have gone unanswered and 11 of the 13 companies that have major sponsorship deals with the International Olympic Committee that include the Beijing games did not comment when asked by the Financial Times if they were reconsidering their plans.

Source: Financial Times #May06

https://www.ft.com/content/bf07dfb7-f70a-4008-8ab1-2b23bfbfb84d

#Olympics #Beijing #Boycott
Hong Kong democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai denied bail
 

The Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai has been denied bail, after being charged with colluding with foreign entities under the city’s new national security law.

Lai, who marked his 72nd birthday in jail this week, appeared in court on Saturday handcuffed to a chain around his waist, and led by a police officer.

He was charged on Friday with offences including asking foreign countries to impose sanctions on Hong Kong or China, and taking other “hostile action”, local media sources – including his own newspaper, Apple Daily – reported. The charges are reportedly based on things he has tweeted and commentaries he has published, as well as interviews with foreign media.
 
Source: The Guardians #Dec12

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/12/hong-kong-democracy-campaigner-jimmy-lai-denied-bail

#HongKong #Democracy #JimmyLai #NationalSecurityLaw
#Hongkongers Deliver Flowers to #Mothers of Jailed Pro-democracy Protestors

"#Wallfare", a support group for political prisoners launched by former legislator #BottleShiu, delivered flowers to 140 mothers of imprisoned protestors in Hong Kong.

The group said since last Friday, 22 volunteers have sent to the mothers flowers and presents, including fruit tea, stress-reliving essential oils and supermarket coupons.

Social workers were also stationed should any of them need emotional support or just a chat.

“We wish all mothers a happy mother’s day, except 'that one' Hongkongers hate the most.”

Source: Stand News #May9

https://bit.ly/3eBh50N
#Separation #Hongkongers
On #MothersDay, Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists, remanded or exiled, Pay Homage to Their Mothers

Source: Stand News #May9

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On #MothersDay, Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists, remanded or exiled, Pay Homage to Their Mothers

Usually on Mother’s Day, many families would go out and celebrate. However, some are less fortunate this year in Hong Kong.

On May 9, 2021, exiled former #Demosisto leader #NathanLaw posted a photo with his mother on Facebook. He said this festival reminds him of the many pro-democracy protestors who became separated from their families. “Only until justice is done can family warmth return.”

Nathan Law recalled, “no matter how busy I am, on Mother's Day, I can always let go of my work and sit before a dinner table with my family.”

He admitted he saw festivals as an excuse to step away from work, but this year he thought of all the protestors who were forced into leaving their own families due to political oppression.

“For everyone who is remanded, imprisoned, or exiled, there is always a mother at home waiting for their return, waiting for days, for months, for years.”

He hoped there can be a new meaning for Mother’s Day. “Please remember those behind bars and oceans apart.”

The facebook page of democrat #TakchiTam, who is remanded on National Security charges, also posted a video that was recorded earlier of him singing the song “Mother, I did no wrong.”

In the video, he said the festival also reminded him of all the young men and women exiled or imprisoned due to the movement. However, he believed when people are united in their pursuit of justice and truth, a new family will be forged.

[Editor's note: “Mother, I have done no wrong” is a song written in remembrance of the 1989 June Fourth Massacre in Beijing. The title is a reference to a famous banner raised by the pro-democracy students who went on hunger strike in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

The lyrics sing:

“We want no one to define right or wrong.

We want no one to convict others at will."]

Source: Stand News #May9

https://www.thestandnews.com/society/a-%E4%B8%8D%E4%B8%80%E6%A8%A3%E7%9A%84%E6%AF%8D%E8%A6%AA%E7%AF%80-%E6%B5%81%E4%BA%A1%E7%BE%85%E5%86%A0%E8%81%B0%E4%B8%8A%E8%BC%89%E8%88%87%E6%AF%8D%E8%A6%AA%E5%90%88%E7%85%A7-%E5%85%AC%E7%BE%A9%E5%BD%B0%E9%A1%AF%E6%89%8D%E5%8F%AF%E6%9C%89%E5%AE%B6%E5%BA%AD%E6%BA%AB%E6%9A%96-%E5%BF%AB%E5%BF%85%E8%87%AA%E5%BD%88%E8%87%AA%E5%94%B1-%E5%AA%BD%E5%AA%BD%E6%88%91%E6%B2%92%E6%9C%89%E9%81%8E%E9%8C%AF/

#JuneFourth #Mothers #Exile #PoliticalSuppression #PoliticalPrisoners
#FirstHand #May9
National Security Police in Hong Kong Intervenes Pro-democracy Group on #MothersDay

On May 9, 2021, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which is the organizer of the annual June Fourth vigil in Hong Kong, set up a street booth in Mongkok.

The day was Mother's Day. The group placed donation box for the Tiananmen Mothers and called on the public to commemorate the 1989 June 4th Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing.

Moments later, a large team of National Security Police arrived at the site and intervened.

#JuneFourth #NationalSecurityLaw #PoliceState
Huawei allegedly spies on Dutch telecom users including political figures, arose Dutch regulators investigation

Source: Stand News #Apr20

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Huawei allegedly spies on Dutch telecom users including political figures, arose Dutch regulators investigation

Netherland's media De Volkskrant obtained a confidential document alleges that Huawei had access to monitor the calls of users of KPN, the largest telecommunications network in the Netherlands, 10 years ago. The Guardian reported that the confidential report, made for KPN by the Capgemini consultancy firm in 2010, concluded that Huawei could have been monitoring the calls of approximately 6.5 million users without KPN’s knowledge, including politicians such as former prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Chinese dissidents. Both KPN and Huawei deny the allegations. The Dutch telecommunications regulator announced on Monday (19 April) that it will investigate the incident.

According to the report, Huawei staff in the Netherlands and China could have monitored calls made by Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, local dignitaries, and Chinese dissidents. "The continued existence of KPN Mobile is in serious danger because permits may be revoked or the government and businesses may give up their confidence in KPN if it becomes known that the Chinese government can eavesdrop on KPN mobile numbers and shut down the network", de Volkskrant quotes the report.

Source: Stand News #Apr20

https://bit.ly/3txBRmn

#Huawei #Netherlands #Telecommunication #Politics #Eavesdrop #Investment #TheGuardians #KPN
Leaked Chinese document reveals a sinister plan to ‘unleash’ coronaviruses

A document written by Chinese scientists and Chinese public health officials in 2015 discussed the weaponisation of SARS coronavirus, reveals the Weekend Australian.

Titled The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons, the paper predicted that World War Three would be fought with biological weapons.

Released five years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it describes SARS coronaviruses as a “new era of genetic weapons” that can be “artificially manipulated into an emerging human ­disease virus, then weaponised and unleashed in a way never seen before”.

Source: NewsComAu #May08

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/leaked-chinese-document-reveals-a-sinister-plan-to-unleash-coronaviruses/news-story/53674e8108ad5a655e07e990daa85465

#COVID19 #SARS #Unleash #Chinese #Weapon
One year on, Wuhan market at epicentre of virus outbreak remains barricaded and empty
 
For over six years, 38-year-old Wuhan restaurant owner Lai Yun started most days the same way - with a trip to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, just ten minutes walk from his house.

“I’d send the kids to school, have breakfast and then walk over to the market. It was very convenient,” he said.

That changed on Dec. 31, 2019, after four cases of a mystery pneumonia were linked to the market and it was shuttered overnight. By the end of the month, the city had begun a gruelling 76-day lockdown that came with just hours notice and barred people from leaving their homes.

Source: Reuters #Dec11

https://reut.rs/2W2miVt

#Wuhan #Virus #Outbreak #Lockdown
#Court #Hongkonger
23-year-old female pro-democracy student sentenced to 38 months behind bars: "This is the path I must take, a responsibility I must bear"

Source: Apple Daily; Stand News #April30

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23-year-old female pro-democracy student sentenced to 38 months behind bars: "This is the path I must take, a responsibility I must bear"


In Hong Kong, 23-year-old female student Yeung Wing-yu recently admitted to possessing more than 100 molotov cocktails during the Anti-Extradition Law movement in 2019. She was sentenced to three years and two months in prison on April 30, 2021.

In her hand-written petition letter to the court, she mentioned that the more she sought knowledge, the more she felt that society was full of injustice and in the end, she committed the crime in this case.

She also said, "the greatest loss to our current society, is the loss of trust". She wrote that she is filled with guilt for worrying her family during her time in custody. She also said that she would not ask the court for a lighter sentence, since it is understood that a long prison sentence was inevitable and "this is the path I must take, a responsibility I must bear".

The letter concludes with a message of encouragement to all those who walked on the same path, "There are already enough people in confinement, so please take care, protect yourself and do your best to survive! I'll be waiting to receive all your letters inside."

Source: Apple Daily; Stand News #April30
https://bit.ly/3vwA7eg

https://bit.ly/3aR5kks

#Sentence #PetrolBomb #Path #Petition #NeverForget
#NeverGiveUp #Court
HK Journalist #BaoChoy to #Appeal: "I will regret for a lifetime if I give up pursuing justice"

On May 5, 2021, former #RTHK producer and award-winning journalist Bao Choy announced that she would appeal against her conviction. The Hong Kong court has previously ruled her guilty of giving "false declarations" in connection with a car plate license search she made for a news documentary on the 2019 Yuen Long gang attack.

"I will regret for a lifetime if I give up pursuing justice. I won't be able to sleep at night," Choy wrote. "As a media worker, reporting facts and speaking the truth have always been my mission. As my city is falling apart, I expect myself to live in reality, with sincerity, honesty and integrity."

Source: RTHK; Stand News #May05
https://bit.ly/3eT1NUb

#Journalism #Injustice #PoliticalProsecution #Censorship #WhiteTerror
#YuenLong721