China Faces European Obstacles as Some Countries Heed U.S. Pressure
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China Faces European Obstacles as Some Countries Heed U.S. Pressure
Some European countries are starting to block Chinese involvement in their economies, drawing closer to positions advocated by the U.S. amid growing anxiety in Europe over China’s increasingly aggressive geopolitical posture.
Romania and Lithuania are taking broad measures to exclude Chinese companies from certain public procurements. Slovenia, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Romania have suspended public tenders involving Chinese companies for work on nuclear-power plants, highways, rail lines, security scanners and a shipping-container terminal. Greece is debating whether to allow a Chinese shipping company to increase its majority stake in the country’s largest port.
The shift is largely taking place in smaller European countries, adding to tensions within the European Union, where big countries still largely favour maintaining business links with China.
Source: WSJ #Feb23
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-faces-european-obstacles-as-some-countries-heed-u-s-pressure-11614088843
#China #EastEurope #EU #ChineseInvestment #BRI
Some European countries are starting to block Chinese involvement in their economies, drawing closer to positions advocated by the U.S. amid growing anxiety in Europe over China’s increasingly aggressive geopolitical posture.
Romania and Lithuania are taking broad measures to exclude Chinese companies from certain public procurements. Slovenia, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Romania have suspended public tenders involving Chinese companies for work on nuclear-power plants, highways, rail lines, security scanners and a shipping-container terminal. Greece is debating whether to allow a Chinese shipping company to increase its majority stake in the country’s largest port.
The shift is largely taking place in smaller European countries, adding to tensions within the European Union, where big countries still largely favour maintaining business links with China.
Source: WSJ #Feb23
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-faces-european-obstacles-as-some-countries-heed-u-s-pressure-11614088843
#China #EastEurope #EU #ChineseInvestment #BRI
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China Faces European Obstacles as Some Countries Heed U.S. Pressure
Some European countries are starting to block Chinese involvement in their economies, drawing closer to positions advocated by the U.S. amid growing anxiety in Europe over China’s increasingly aggressive geopolitical posture.
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Hong Kong Governmemt Amends Privacy Policy: Airport Passengers’ Personal Data Can be Assessed by Third Party Supplier
Since Jan 2021, a new facial recognition system has been added to every boarding gate (called the "e-security gates") at the Hong Kong International Airport.
This was one of Hong Kong Airport’s 9 billions renovation projects. However, just one day before the deployment of the new system, the Airport Authority Hong Kong amended the privacy policy of the e-security gates.
Compared with the previous version from June 28, 2019 found in the Internet Archive, passengers’ privacy became less protected. Some articles of the “Passengers’ agreement” and one part which mentioned “only anonymous data would be collected” were removed in the new version.
Passengers personal data could also be sent to the third party supplier. The Authority has refused to disclose the identity of the system supplier.
Source: Radio Free Asia #Feb23
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Hong Kong Governmemt Amends Privacy Policy: Airport Passengers’ Personal Data Can be Assessed by Third Party Supplier
Since Jan 2021, a new facial recognition system has been added to every boarding gate (called the "e-security gates") at the Hong Kong International Airport.
This was one of Hong Kong Airport’s 9 billions renovation projects. However, just one day before the deployment of the new system, the Airport Authority Hong Kong amended the privacy policy of the e-security gates.
Compared with the previous version from June 28, 2019 found in the Internet Archive, passengers’ privacy became less protected. Some articles of the “Passengers’ agreement” and one part which mentioned “only anonymous data would be collected” were removed in the new version.
Passengers personal data could also be sent to the third party supplier. The Authority has refused to disclose the identity of the system supplier.
Source: Radio Free Asia #Feb23
#BigData
China has tried to intimidate Hong Kong activists in Germany, Berlin says
China has tried to intimidate Hong Kong residents living in Germany since pro-democracy protests broke out in the city two years ago.
The letter to the head of parliament’s human rights committee mentioned the increasing attempts by Chinese state actors in Germany to influence public opinion in favour of the Chinese government since the start of the protests in Hong Kong. Also, it citied that the Chinese pro-government counter-demonstrators filmed and photographed participants “presumably for the purpose of intimidation” in the protest of supporting Hong Kong activists in Hamburg on Aug. 17, 2019.
Jensen, a member of the liberal FDP party said it was about time that the German government realised that actors for the Chinese government could pose a threat to exiled Hong Kongers.
Source: Reuters #Feb23
https://reut.rs/2ZGgUsC
#Germany #China #HongKongActivist #ChinaIntimidate
China has tried to intimidate Hong Kong residents living in Germany since pro-democracy protests broke out in the city two years ago.
The letter to the head of parliament’s human rights committee mentioned the increasing attempts by Chinese state actors in Germany to influence public opinion in favour of the Chinese government since the start of the protests in Hong Kong. Also, it citied that the Chinese pro-government counter-demonstrators filmed and photographed participants “presumably for the purpose of intimidation” in the protest of supporting Hong Kong activists in Hamburg on Aug. 17, 2019.
Jensen, a member of the liberal FDP party said it was about time that the German government realised that actors for the Chinese government could pose a threat to exiled Hong Kongers.
Source: Reuters #Feb23
https://reut.rs/2ZGgUsC
#Germany #China #HongKongActivist #ChinaIntimidate
Hong Kong plans to make politicians swear oath of loyalty to Beijing
Hong Kong’s government has announced electoral changes requiring office-holders to pledge and maintain an oath of loyalty to Hong Kong and Beijing, or face disqualification and a five-year ban on running for re-election.
The announcement came a day after a top Beijing official signalled that the significant changes would be coming to ensure Hong Kong was run by “patriots”. It is a clear sign that China intends to no longer tolerate dissenting voices after taking over Hong Kong only 23 years.
Government critics and western leaders have accused Beijing of going back on its word and effectively ending the “one country, two systems” framework for governing the financial hub.
Source: The Guardian #Feb23
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/23/hong-kong-plans-to-make-politicians-swear-oath-of-loyalty-to-beijing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#HongKong #HongKongElection #China #DeathOfOneCountryTwoSystems
Hong Kong’s government has announced electoral changes requiring office-holders to pledge and maintain an oath of loyalty to Hong Kong and Beijing, or face disqualification and a five-year ban on running for re-election.
The announcement came a day after a top Beijing official signalled that the significant changes would be coming to ensure Hong Kong was run by “patriots”. It is a clear sign that China intends to no longer tolerate dissenting voices after taking over Hong Kong only 23 years.
Government critics and western leaders have accused Beijing of going back on its word and effectively ending the “one country, two systems” framework for governing the financial hub.
Source: The Guardian #Feb23
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/23/hong-kong-plans-to-make-politicians-swear-oath-of-loyalty-to-beijing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#HongKong #HongKongElection #China #DeathOfOneCountryTwoSystems
Can China Change the Definition of Human Rights?
A Chinese government official addressed for the first time at the 46th of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. The speech of Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister, included that Beijing’s attempt to remake the very concept of human rights to suit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) better.
The CCP has been accused of large-scale human rights abuse since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, including the crackdown in Tibet in 1959, the bloodshed of the Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square massacre 1989 and ongoing genocide in Xinjiang.
Wang’s proposition of “people-centered” human rights posits “people’s sense of gains, happiness and security” as “the fundamental pursuit of human rights.” He reformulated human rights that economic prosperity and the nebulous concept of “happiness” replaced racial and gender equality or freedom of religion, and security.
Source: The Diplomat #Feb23
https://thediplomat.com/2021/02/can-china-change-the-definition-of-human-rights/
#UNHumanRightsCouncil #UnitedNations #ChinaRedefineHumanRights #China
A Chinese government official addressed for the first time at the 46th of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. The speech of Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister, included that Beijing’s attempt to remake the very concept of human rights to suit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) better.
The CCP has been accused of large-scale human rights abuse since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, including the crackdown in Tibet in 1959, the bloodshed of the Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square massacre 1989 and ongoing genocide in Xinjiang.
Wang’s proposition of “people-centered” human rights posits “people’s sense of gains, happiness and security” as “the fundamental pursuit of human rights.” He reformulated human rights that economic prosperity and the nebulous concept of “happiness” replaced racial and gender equality or freedom of religion, and security.
Source: The Diplomat #Feb23
https://thediplomat.com/2021/02/can-china-change-the-definition-of-human-rights/
#UNHumanRightsCouncil #UnitedNations #ChinaRedefineHumanRights #China
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Can China Change the Definition of Human Rights?
In a speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council, China’s foreign minister gave China’s preferred spin to the concept.
Canadian school offering Nova Scotia diplomas operating in China’s fraught Xinjiang region
A Canadian school program has kept its doors open in China’s Xinjiang region for nearly a decade, collecting tuition and issuing Nova Scotia diplomas to students in the area where large numbers of local...
Source: TheGlobeAndMail #Feb23
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-canadian-school-offering-nova-scotia-diplomas-operating-in-chinas/
#Canadian #Nova #China #Xinjiang
A Canadian school program has kept its doors open in China’s Xinjiang region for nearly a decade, collecting tuition and issuing Nova Scotia diplomas to students in the area where large numbers of local...
Source: TheGlobeAndMail #Feb23
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-canadian-school-offering-nova-scotia-diplomas-operating-in-chinas/
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COVID19 Quarantine Center in Hong Kong, a Torture to Patients: "No One would Remember Us"
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Source: Facebook; Channel C HK; #Feb23
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Source: Facebook; Channel C HK; #Feb23
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COVID19 Quarantine Center in Hong Kong, a Torture to Patients: "No One would Remember Us"
A video of a distraught woman inside Hong Kong's COVID-19 quarantine center has gone viral on social media on Feb 22.
The video shows the woman in her flip flops at Penny's Bay, Hong Kong's main quarantine facility, breaking down in tears and yelling in desperation as she frantically looked for a way out.
Several staff members, clad in protective gear, tried unsuccessfully to calm her down and persuade her to return to her room. She eventually lashed out and kicked at a staff member who was apparently trying to approach her.
Online media Channel C interviewed another patient, Ms. P, who is also undergoing quarantine in the Penny’s Bay Center. Ms. P said that she totally understood the woman’s desperation, adding that she was also feeling very depressed during her stay.
In fact, distressed patients crying, shouting, yelling in their rooms or along the walkways are a daily occurrence in the center, she said.
A man even attempted suicide by drinking a bottle of disinfectant, Ms. P added.
“The worst thing here is you're easily forgotten,” Ms. P said. When she was admitted into the facility, she made tens of phone calls and waited for 4 days before her initial test bottle was delivered. No one came back to pick it up until she made another round of phone calls, until she finally reached medical staff.
When her quarantine period ended on Feb 19, the facility did not arrange for her to leave, and she spent another 3 days on the phone trying to contact staff - again, receiving no reply. She was elated when staff finally notified her on Feb 21 that she could leave.
However, just before she boarded the bus, she was turned away because she was not given a doctor's note. She watched all the buses leave before being sent back to her room.
"We were all very scared," she said on the interview, her voice breaking, "Once we're back in our rooms, no one would remember us."
However, she was sympathetic to the medical staff and other supporting staff members on the site. “They are suffering just like us. The staff member who came to deliver my documents was soaked in the rain.”
Ms. P questioned the purpose of putting Hong Kong people in quarantine centers where they are not properly taken care of.
She stressed that the costs and suffering inflicted upon so many citizens grossly outweigh any foreseeable benefits.
Source: Facebook; Channel C HK; #Feb23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42SwTQPrtF8
#FailedState #PennysBay #Quarantine
COVID19 Quarantine Center in Hong Kong, a Torture to Patients: "No One would Remember Us"
A video of a distraught woman inside Hong Kong's COVID-19 quarantine center has gone viral on social media on Feb 22.
The video shows the woman in her flip flops at Penny's Bay, Hong Kong's main quarantine facility, breaking down in tears and yelling in desperation as she frantically looked for a way out.
Several staff members, clad in protective gear, tried unsuccessfully to calm her down and persuade her to return to her room. She eventually lashed out and kicked at a staff member who was apparently trying to approach her.
Online media Channel C interviewed another patient, Ms. P, who is also undergoing quarantine in the Penny’s Bay Center. Ms. P said that she totally understood the woman’s desperation, adding that she was also feeling very depressed during her stay.
In fact, distressed patients crying, shouting, yelling in their rooms or along the walkways are a daily occurrence in the center, she said.
A man even attempted suicide by drinking a bottle of disinfectant, Ms. P added.
“The worst thing here is you're easily forgotten,” Ms. P said. When she was admitted into the facility, she made tens of phone calls and waited for 4 days before her initial test bottle was delivered. No one came back to pick it up until she made another round of phone calls, until she finally reached medical staff.
When her quarantine period ended on Feb 19, the facility did not arrange for her to leave, and she spent another 3 days on the phone trying to contact staff - again, receiving no reply. She was elated when staff finally notified her on Feb 21 that she could leave.
However, just before she boarded the bus, she was turned away because she was not given a doctor's note. She watched all the buses leave before being sent back to her room.
"We were all very scared," she said on the interview, her voice breaking, "Once we're back in our rooms, no one would remember us."
However, she was sympathetic to the medical staff and other supporting staff members on the site. “They are suffering just like us. The staff member who came to deliver my documents was soaked in the rain.”
Ms. P questioned the purpose of putting Hong Kong people in quarantine centers where they are not properly taken care of.
She stressed that the costs and suffering inflicted upon so many citizens grossly outweigh any foreseeable benefits.
Source: Facebook; Channel C HK; #Feb23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42SwTQPrtF8
#FailedState #PennysBay #Quarantine
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檢測煉獄｜竹篙灣隔離人士哭訴被「遺忘」 陰性結果但出營無期 有人精神崩潰 失控大叫自殺｜Channel C HK
近日有一條網上短片，見一位在 #竹篙灣 檢疫中心隔離的女士，情緒激動，向醫護人員動粗和以粗口辱罵，引起外界對中心內情況的好奇。
我們訪問了一位在竹篙灣檢疫中心隔離的P小姐，分享她的所見所聞，哭訴各種無助的情況，除了膳食欠佳，檢測程序亦十分混亂，隔離人士要主動要求才有安排。更絕望的是，她的快速檢測結果雖然呈陰性，卻無法離開檢疫中心…
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