[#rebelpepper RFA column] "American companies kneel at Xi's feet"

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//More and more US companies are surrendering to Xi Jinping and the tempting Chinese market. Their practice of Chinese-style self-censorship would corrupt American core values, and will eventually lead to vigourous reactions of their people.//

Source: https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/biantailajiaomanhua/lj-10102019154518.html

[#rebelpepper from RFA]
"Hong Kong Protesters: A Tsunami For Authorities"

Be Water/ In Water

Source: https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/biantailajiaomanhua/lj-10172019122322.html

#Rebelpepper RFA column

United Nations recently announced that Tencent would provide a video conference and communication platform for the UN. In my opinion, Tencent is an unreliable company. The police previously tried to arrest me via monitoring my QQ chat records. My work is banned on Wechat, and many netizens’ accounts got deleted, some were detained and arrested, all because the police are directly monitoring Wechat messages. The UN isn’t aware that everything will be exposed to China. 

Source: Rfa #Apr1
https://bit.ly/2Rhd9X0

#WeChat #Surveillance #CCP #Tencent #UN

#WHO Chief accuses #Taiwan of orchestrating racist attack

The World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus condemned the politicisation of Covid-19, claiming he has received death threats and racist insults during the coronavirus pandemic.

He pointed fingers at Taiwan for spearheading the insults at him. “Three months ago, this attack came from Taiwan.” “And Taiwan, the Foreign Ministry know the campaign.” “They didn’t disassociate themselves and even started criticizing me in the middle of all that insult and slur.”

Taiwan dismissed Tedros’ comments as “baseless”. Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen invited Tedros to visit Taiwan and stressed that “Taiwan has always opposed all forms of discrimination.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs demands Tedros to correct his claims and apologize to the people of Taiwan.

China's foreign ministry commented that it hopes Taiwan "will not politicize the pandemic or engage in any political maneuvering.”

Source: Apple Daily #Apr9
Image: #RebelPepper

#Interview
#ChrisPatten on How #CCP Changed #HongKong: "They’ve broken their word, as I’m afraid they do regularly"

Source: RFA #Jun26
Illustration: #RebelPepper

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#Interview
#ChrisPatten on How #CCP Changed #HongKong: "They’ve broken their word, as I’m afraid they do regularly"

The last UK governor of Hong Kong, #lChris Patten, blames the #ChineseCommunistParty for the city's malaise.

Patten, 78, who holds the title Baron Patten of Barnes and serves as chancellor of the #UniversityofOxford, spoke the Amelia Loi of RFA Cantonese about the changes in Hong Kong as the July 1 25th anniversary of the #handover approaches.

In the interview, Patten was asked to assess the changes in Hong Kong in the 25 years since the handove. Patten said, "Hong Kong was an exceptionally successful community ––the eighth largest trading community in the world and we never had the sort of demonstrations which have affected Hong Kong in the last few years. I had very much hoped it would continue as long as possible and the Chinese had promised that it would continue for 50 years. They’ve broken their word, as I’m afraid they do regularly. They break their word. They break international treaties whenever it suits them. And I think that’s happening again this time."

Patten also said, "the fact that the independence movement has grown in Hong Kong is an indication of how badly China has behaved and how little people actually trust China today. It’s an extraordinary thing that so few people are actually proud of Hong Kong being part of China now. There’s a great sense of Hong Kong citizenship, and there’s a great sense that people are Hong Kongers but only a small number think of themselves as Chinese."

Read the full interview:
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/hongkong-patten-06262022085742.html

Source: RFA #Jun26
Illustration: #RebelPepper