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"Heal the World": China's propaganda

In a recent report to Beijing, the Hong Kong government spoke of the plan to assist the pro-Beijing camp to gain political power from the epidemic. By applying an iron fist to fight off the coronavirus as well as "social unrest", the political agenda of the Beijing and the Hong Kong authorities is obvious, but not without flaws and uncertainties.

In any case, the actual situation of the epidemic in China could never be known, not even to the Director General of WHO, Mr Tedros Adhanom who has been convincing the world with his double negation logic that epidemic is inevitable but safely under control.

However, on March 11, 2020, WHO declared the state of pandemic, as over 118,000 cases of Wuhan Pneumonia grow exponentially in over 110 countries and territories around the world.

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"Heal the World": China's propaganda

In a recent report to Beijing, the Hong Kong government spoke of the plan to assist the pro-Beijing camp to gain political power from the epidemic. By applying an iron fist to fight off the coronavirus as well as "social unrest", the political agenda of the Beijing and the Hong Kong authorities is obvious, but not without flaws and uncertainties.

In any case, the actual situation of the epidemic in China could never be known, not even to the Director General of WHO, Mr Tedros Adhanom who has been convincing the world with his double negation logic that epidemic is inevitable but safely under control.

However, on March 11, 2020, WHO declared the state of pandemic, as over 118,000 cases of Wuhan Pneumonia grow exponentially in over 110 countries and territories around the world.

In this regard, the experience of SARS expert Joseph J.Y. Sung, a medical professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, might speak more truth. Comparing to his experience in combating SARS in 2003, Hong Kong is facing a much more difficult situation in 2019 due to the inadequate supply of protective equipment.

Given that Hong Kong is already better equipped than in China, Dr. Sung's citing of Michael Jackson’s “Heal the World” is perhaps the best thing to say to the medical workers in Hong Kong as well as in China.

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Keep Your Distance, Especially From China

"This catastrophe is indeed an example of the survival of the fittest, but it is not limited to a war between humans’ immune system and the virus, it is also a war between ideologies and information.

Basically, the severely affected areas of the Coronavirus, such as Italy and Spain in Europe, and Japan and South Korea in Asia, are the countries who “believed in” China and the World Health Organisation, and did not make their own judgement regarding the validity of the data provided by China, not to mention their awareness of the benefits of border closure and the potential dangers of the influx of Chinese tourists."

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Keep your distance, especially from China

This catastrophe is indeed an example of the survival of the fittest, but it is not limited to a war between humans’ immune system and the virus, it is also a war between ideologies and information.

Basically, the severely affected areas of the Coronavirus, such as Italy and Spain in Europe, and Japan and South Korea in Asia, are the countries who “believed in” China and the World Health Organisation, and did not make their own judgement regarding the validity of the data provided by China, not to mention their awareness of the benefits of border closure and the potential dangers of the influx of Chinese tourists.

Then it comes to the nominees for the “Darwin Awards” - those who took the “Coronavirus Challenge” upon themselves on TikTok. As a brand, TikTok has its own values and culture. It is apparent that TikTok has a unique enchantment that draws the addicted ones to death like sirens.

Ironically, in the era of China’s rising as a Sharp Power, complete distrust in the Communist Party of China and its news has become a essential tactic for survival, of which was adopted by the government and people of ROC (Taiwan) and citizens of Hong Kong, who earned a moment of peace between the waves of Coronavirus outbreaks despite their geographic closeness to China and a social network closely tied with the country, even closer than those owned by Japan and South Korea.

They adopted universal mask wearing, a tactic mocked and frowned upon by people around the world, and social distancing, a tactic many authorities doubted due to the people's willingness to comply. Unsurprisingly, foreign governments' delayed responses resulted in their untrustworthiness among their people.

Still, some religious groups solemnly believe that their rituals remain unaffected by the Coronavirus pandemic, and thus reject any interference to their practices by the government’s quarantine inspections as they insist on enacting their freedom of religion. One of the super-spreaders in South Korea ignited an irremediable outbreak of the virus within her cult.

Even now, a notorious terrorist organisation halted their penetration and attacks on Europe to avoid infection. It seems that everyone is equal before the virus, regardless of differences in religion and race.

We hope our readers can “suspend” their social and religious routines. You need your life to celebrate what you love and believe. Corpses cannot contribute to your communities.

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One thing for sure, the Wuhan virus (Covid-19) is deadlier than WHO and China would admit

According to official data from Iran and Italy, the mortality rate of this virus seems to be much higher than data “presented” by Chinese officials would suggest. It is hard to explain why Iran and Italy have significantly higher number of COVID-19 death cases than China, other than believing that the strain in China is less contagious and less virulent. How likely is this?

May be the virus is thankful to China for its creation? Perhaps the virus is understanding and knows it has to give some time for the Communist Party of China to speed up its plan to resume economic activities. According to Caixin, local governments are presently creating the illusion that people have returned to work - offices with air-conditioning and lights on but no workers, and machinery running with no operators. All done so that they can fulfill the numbers on energy consumption reports by CCP’s Supreme Order.

According to the CCP, there are signs that the epidemic has slowed down in China but how? One possibility is perhaps local government officials and central government officials are colluding to conceal the truth. Consider the following:

"Thanksgiving Education"
According to People's Daily, when Sun Chunlan (Vice Premier of PRC) was visiting the Cuiyuan Community of Qingshan, Wuhan, some residents yelled at her from their windows saying, "Fake! Everything is fake!" and "Formalism". Shortly after, Wang Zhonglin (Communist Party Secretary of Wuhan) announced the promotion of "Thanksgiving Education" among citizens and party members, so that they learn how to "Thank the General Secretary. Thank the CCP. Obey and follow the CCP to create positive energy together. “

Xi’s Huoshenshan Hospital visit
An exclusive video taken by China Central TV during Xi’s inspection of the Huoshenshan Hospital (specifically built to handle Covid-19 patients) for the first time since the outbreak started in December of last year. In this 36-second footage, only the runway and the wing of the plane were seen, but Xi was not seen aboard the plane. From the plane, it jumped to the next scene where Xi was speaking with patients and medical staff through a screen.

What else was strange? Huoshenshan Hospital, which took only 8 days to build, is supposedly a simple structure with only cubicles inside. In the footage, however, the hospital is a four-storey brick building with carpeted floors, which is completely different from the actual Huoshenshan Hospital.

Zhang Lifan, an outspoken Chinese scholar and historian based in Beijing said, “The people of Wuhan will never accept it”. He was referring to the “Thanksgiving Education” proposed by Wang. Let us hope for Mr. Zhang’s good health and longevity, so that he can keep speaking out for the people.

Sources: The People’s Daily, World Journal, Caixin

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#EditorialColumn #CensorshipKills
From Ebola Virus to "CCP Virus"

"...Please leave behind your lament and together we will strive for a better future and pursue happiness for the human race. Hongkongers will continue to be the whistleblower to uncover CCP's doing and China authoritarianism, the root cause of this coronavirus pandemic."

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From Ebola Virus to "CCP Virus"

In reality as well as theory one should be politically correct. Expressions such as "people of color" might propagate stereotypes, just as racial bias still linger in judiciary in multicultural states (Bielen et al. 2019).

Certainly, one can reword "Wuhan Pneumonia" to avoid China's stark accusation of 'racism' in the terminology; however, this would be serving the 'political correctness' set by the Communist Part of China, for that Chinese government has been changing its narrative of what it once called the "Wuhan pneumomia". In the revised narrative put forward by the Chinese Communist Party in 2020, the origin of COVID-19 is no longer Wuhan in China, the first epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, but the U.S. or perhaps Italy. Although China's state media China Daily had used the term "Wuhan pneumonia" in December 2019, Chinese government now condemns the world (in particular, the U.S.) for using the 'racist' term.

Considering "Spanish flu", "Ebola virus", "Hong Kong flu", "German measles", "Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)" and "Japanese encephalitis", these are precedent examples of naming a disease after a place or site of its first outbreak. While more and more people including U.S. president Donald Trump called COVID-19 a "CCP virus", let us not forget what Prof. Ho-Fung Hung of Johns Hopkins University reminds us that criticizing the Chinese government should not be obscured as a racism.

When people around the world are combating this coronavirus, please do not forget every loss of life that has not been counted in reality but took place in the multiverse that the Chinese government could not cover up. We cannot time travel to undo the past, but we shall always remember the truths to avoid making more mistakes in the future.

Please leave behind your lament and together we will strive for a better future and pursue happiness for the human race. Hongkongers will continue to be the whistleblower to uncover CCP's doing and China authoritarianism, the root cause of this coronavirus pandemic.

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People in China Celebrate Coronavirus Calamities in the US and Japan
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#EditorialColumn #WHO #OneChinaPolicy #Apr21
WHO's One China Policy or No China Policy?

"If U.S. President Trump is politicizing the coronavirus, then Director-general of the World Trade Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom is putting the blame on racism for the mass number of coronavirus deaths caused by his misdirection...

Here comes the paradox: If Tedros is a follower of the 'one China' policy upheld by the WHO...does it mean that the Chinese government was behind it? Along the same line, should Tedros better lodge a complaint to the PRC's Foreign Ministry instead of directing it to Taiwan government and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen?"

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WHO's One China Policy or No China Policy?

If U.S. President Trump is politicizing the coronavirus, then Director-general of the World Trade Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom is putting the blame on racism for the mass number of coronavirus deaths caused by his misdirection.

By now, countries around the world have felt the consequences after the WHO had ignored the warning sent from Hong Kong and Taiwan in December 2019. When Trump criticizes China for covering up the coronavirus crisis, according to Trump's rhetoric and style it might be more accurate to call it a 'stereotype' rather than 'racism' as China has insisted. However, Tedros' accusation of Taiwan for its 'racist' attack seemed more of a distraction to sway people from his scientific failures and administrative misconducts.

In the case of Taiwan, Yvon Pierre Loufoua, a crosstalker performer of Congolese descent living in Taiwan, spoke from his life experience that the name-calling acts described by Tedros sounded unreal to Taiwan society and culture. Yvon also saw "China's fear of Taiwan's growing international power" through Tedros' agenda to suppress Taiwan in the game of global politics by marginalizing his own ethnicity and identity.

After all, over the past few months, Tedros has demonstrated what scientific positivism is: Even when experts from Hong Kong and Taiwan ceaselessly suggested ways to stop the epidemic, Tedros insisted that no countries should close their borders with China. Moreover, it was not until March that the WHO finally called the Wuhan pneumonia a pandemic and began considering Europe as the hardest hit area outside of China. Maybe Tedros simply attaches great importance to what he considers as empirical data, as he was only willing to react after a large number of coronavirus patients died outside China.

By inference, Tedros must have had evidence to support his claims of Taiwan attacking him with racist comments and death threats--although Tedros has yet to make any details public.

Let us hope that this health expert from the WHO knows about information and cyber security---especially when some 'great and powerful' nation has perhaps been supplying intelligence analysis.

At this point, we should always remind ourselves that we live in an era of information warfare, where there are Chinese reporters posing as Hong Kong and Taiwanese reporters and asking questions at White House press conferences.

Finally, here comes the paradox: If Tedros is a follower of the 'one China' policy upheld by the WHO, he would have handled the matter like his colleague did: WHO advisor Dr. Bruce Aylward rejected Radio Television Hong Kong's (RTHK) question on Taiwan by hanging up the phone during an interview--he demonstrated how Taiwan should not even be brought up outside the China framework according to this logic. Hypothetically, if Tedros was really attacked by Taiwan, by the same policy does it mean that the Chinese government was behind it? Along the same line, should Tedros better lodge a complaint to the PRC's Foreign Ministry instead of directing it to the Taiwan government and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen?

#Taiwan #PRC #NoChinaPolicy #Racism #Tedros

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#EditorialColumn #May17
Cultural Revolution 2.0: From Hong Kong Limited Edition to World Edition

"If Sense And Sensibility has represented the 18th-Century British society, 21st-Century China has its own adaptation: Censor and Hypersensitivity."

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Cultural Revolution 2.0: From Hong Kong Limited Edition to World Edition

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If Sense And Sensibility has represented the 18th-Century British society, 21st-Century China has its own adaptation: Censor and Hypersensitivity.

By monitoring the naming of the coronavirus, the reporting of the pandemic, and the mentioning of the ROC (Taiwan), the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims that censorship is needed to "protect the feelings of its 1.3 billion people" in the PRC (hereinafter referred to as China). Contrary to its "peaceful rise", PRC has demonstrated its hypersentivity and fragility in international situations especially during the coronavirus pandemic.

Hong Kong, by practising the "One Country Two Systems" policy, is supposed to steer clear of this path. However, the Education Bureau has adopted CCP's hypersensitivity and started to act as a censor in Hong Kong. Jonathan Spence's short excerpt regarding the Opium Wars in The Search for Modern China was deemed "toxic" by pro-Beijing media, which sought to portray such misinterpretations with misdirection. However, one short academic discussion regarding this topic would reveal the crux of the matter.

Two weeks later, a battle of historical ideologies ensued once more, this time regarding the topic of "whether Japan's positive influence on pre-CCP China outweigh the negatives between 1900 and 1945" addressed in this year's History Paper in the DSE public exam.

By convention, these kinds of open-ended questions only require the students to utilize the given sources, data, historical ideologies, or "the feelings of the Chinese people", to critique Japan's damage upon China, which indirectly legitimizes the opinion that Japan should continually pay reparations to China, meeting the Party's patriotic ideals. This also provides an opportunity for future patriots to train their critical thinking, for in theory, patriotism should be done with reason and logic, unlike the type of patriotism to which the chauvinistic Red Guards or the recent Wumaos and Little Pinks contribute.

For those who wish to establish further ties with China, be warned.

A redux version of the Chinese Boxer Rebellion and the Cultural Revolution is coming in the form of a populist authoritarianism with Chinese characteristics. This tsunami is awaiting for your allegiance and service for its 1.3 billion people. The destructive power of Cultural Revolution is still propagating in China, and this time the wave is extending to all around the world.

After Chinese netizens fanatically criticized "Wuhan Diary", it is clear that the Chinese people believe that they have won the battle against the Wuhan Pneumonia: everything has returned to normal in its chauvinistic glory, and now that national pride has returned to the Chinese people, they should once again begin the struggles that defined the Cultural Revolution. Let it be noted that CCP-styled Marxism is still a compulsory subject for Chinese university students.

For those who still believe they can establish tie with China, remember that for CCP, enough is not enough.

"Le vent se lève! ... il faut tenter de vivre!" (The wind rises ... One must try to live).

[Editor's note: Originally from Paul Valéry's poem "Le Cimetière Marin", the line has been adapted to become the title of the animated film The Wind Rises. The film explores the pain one experiences when reflecting upon history.]

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Is China Removing the Last Thin Line in "One Country Two Systems"?
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Sad or Angry? Do you Feel Blue Under the Chinese Communist Party?

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Sad or Angry? Do you Feel Blue Under the Chinese Communist Party?

If the handover in 1997 has pushed Hongkongers to a point of no return, Hongkongers do not even has a place to hide after Beijing's unilateral introduction of the national security law.

Whether you live in Hong Kong or not, the rupture between the open society and China's great wall has slipped into your life.

Populist authoritarianism is haunting the globe. An alien to the free world. This untamable alien has applied controlocracy though WeChat terrorism and censorship, spreading from the national to the international level.

Do you think this is unrelated to your country or your community? What is happening to Hong Kong proves the opposite.

Just before China's announcement of introducing the Nation Security Law in Hong Kong, two "coincidences" occured:

Google did not suggest any auto-complete results for the word "黃色" (yellow), the color of democracy in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, Facebook disallowed updates when netizens tried to access the pages of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists and groups.

Have we hit rock bottom? No one knows, but the future lies in your hand. The free world or China's great wall, which way do you want to avoid?

Don't you mind if the Internet blocks your favourite colour?

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#EditorialColumn #Jun15
National Security Law Turns Hong Kong Into a Launchpad for China's Legal Terrorism

"...As Hong Kong's Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng admitted on June 14 that the National Security Law is unlikely to be based on common law, China is inserting a Chinese-style statute into Hong Kong's common law system.

The question arises: Will Hong Kong's National Security Law cases be recognized by other common law countries?"

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Secretary for Justice Admits National Security Law to Deviate from Hong Kong's Common Law System
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National Security Law Turns Hong Kong Into a Launchpad for China's Legal Terrorism

China's decision to insert the National Security Law" as a so-called "nationwide" law into Hong Kong's legal system has far reaching ramifications - not only to Hong Kong, but also to the rest of the world.

The problematics stem from the very different nature of the two legal systems: Hong Kong's common law system inherited from Britain vis-a-vis China's own blend of civil law and socialist law.

Different Systems, Different Values

The strength of a common law system lies in the common legal basis and values agreed upon by countries and regions sharing the same system. International business is founded on this, especially for fast-paced decision makers who would not have time for the intricacies of a different local law - for example, China's.

The concept of judicial precedent, central to all common law systems, constrains judges to base their rulings on the principles laid down in past cases. These precedent cases may be cited from other common law countries. In fact, Commonwealth and former Commonwealth regions such as Australia, Canada, and Hong Kong recognize, and often cite, each other's cases.

However, in China's law system, judges base their decisions only on the text of the law (and from time to time, on the whims and fancies of the Party)--not on any previous cases, nor cases from other legal systems, and certainly not on the universally shared values underlying those courts' decisions. It is noteworthy that in China's court, the conviction rate is nearly 99%.

As Hong Kong's Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng admitted on June 14 that the National Security Law is unlikely to be based on common law, China is inserting a Chinese-style statute into Hong Kong's common law system.

The question arises: Will Hong Kong's National Security Law cases be recognized by other common law countries?

One Country, One (Messed Up) System?

This raises some worrying scenarios:

Scenario 1: After winning national security cases in Hong Kong, China sues governments and private enterprises in other common law countries, citing Hong Kong cases as precedents.

Scenario 2: To avoid scenario 1, other countries no longer recognize Hong Kong's case rulings as being made under common law. Then Hong Kong's legal system becomes a unique (thus isolated) "common law system with Chinese characteristics", losing the greatest advantage of common law - that is, individuals and companies can understand and execute contracts according to values common to the rest of the world.

In China, concerns of national security is all-encompassing; even the revenue of Huawei and other "national enterprises" are "national security" issues. If scenario 2 comes to pass, not only are small and medium businesses robbed of the legal protection they once enjoyed, even multinational companies are in danger of losing basic properties, including their trademarks (recall that Chinese courts ruled that even Michael Jordan doesn't own the rights to his own name within China).

Incoming: Legal Terrorism

China's forcing their national security law upon Hong Kong severely undermines the foundation of Hong Kong's legal system; this has been widely noted and criticized by the international community.

Although foreign countries can withdraw their capital and mitigate their losses, this does not stop China from launching legal terrorism attacks into the common law world, by exporting precedent cases under this "common law with Chinese characteristics".

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The truth of China’s sharp power in the gaming industry

Nintendo (HK) released a campaign on Super Smash Bros Ultimate on 4 June, in commemoration of the N64 console. The idea is that the gaming experience would multiply by 6.4 times. Interestingly, the day actually has little ties to the actual release day of N64. Netizens quickly concluded that this campaign is in fact giving a nod at another eventful 6.4, or what happened at China's Tiananmen Square back in 1989.

China has a huge market. However, with its current wolf diplomacy, participating in this market may come with unexpected costs. The theft of intellectual property, for one, is a risk many foreign entrants must take when working with a local proxy. Complying with local censorship laws is another.

Examples like Animal Crossing and Devotion show that the Chinese audience tends to react very poorly at the slightest amount of what they perceive to be negative content, or ones that "hurt the Chinese's feelings". It could result in a game being banned in China and the company boycotted by Chinese gamers. Normally, most foreign companies tiptoe around sensitive issues in China.

As time goes on, governments and companies realize that heavy reliance on the Chinese market would result in over dependence on the country and its industries. The recent pandemic is a perfect and very unfortunate example of how much the world relies on this global manufacturing conglomerate.

At the same time, companies realize Chinese boycott may merely be lip service, as amidst the uproar, many Chinese gamers still try to purchase parallel imported products, when the licensed alternative is banned.

In the current situation where the world is reconsidering their relationship and interaction with China, it is not surprising if some companies try to push the envelope of the communist regime, in an effort to show that they are not pawns of China.

Source: Simon Shen’s Youtube, Hitchcock Game news Youtube

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Judge from Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Resigned in Relation to the National Security Law Passed by Beijing in HK

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Is the National Security Law Turning Hong Kong Into a Launchpad for China's Legal Terrorism?

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Although foreign countries can withdraw their capital and mitigate their losses, this does not stop China from launching legal terrorism attacks into the common law world, by exporting precedent cases under this "common law with Chinese characteristics".//

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#EditorialColumn #Sept26 #MassSurveillance
Does Health Have a Price? Consequences of China's Paternalism

//Can you see that the made-in-China facemasks you pay to wear came from forced labour at the Concentration camps and sweatshop factories?//

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Does Health Have a Price? Consequences of China's Paternalism

From the recent Universal Testing Scheme to the impending plan for Heath Code, the Hong Kong Government has been assisting the Chinese Central Government to impose mass surveillance and collect private data of the Hong Kong population in the name of pandemic controls.

For almost one year, the coronavirus pandemic, spreading from Wuhan, China to countries around the world, has revealed China's network of influence. Hong Kong is certainly not the only place where China exports, while naturalizing, its paternalistic control.

Can you see how China jails the Uyghurs in Concentration Camps?

Can you see the surveillance cameras owned by the CCP-controlled HIKvision around the world?

Can you see the backdoors that China-owned Huawei, WeChat and Tiktok open?

Can you see that the made-in-China facemasks you pay to wear came from forced labour at the Concentration camps and sweatshop factories?

Now you can see the penetration of China's sharp power in the 21st century.

If you found it disturbing that your internet activities might be overseen by the PRISM program and your messages seen by Facebook, the black mirror is brought to you by TikTok, WeChat and mass surveillance methods that track your health, contacts, whereabouts and activities.

Welcome to a made-in-China 2020: with surveillance technology, anti-pandemic control and monitoring system.

Welcome to utopia.

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Reference:
New York Times, Wearing a Mask? It May Come From China’s Controversial Labor Program, 19 July 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000007226041/china-coronavirus-masks-uighur-labor-ppe.html

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/tiktok-china-strategy.html

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Pleading for the First #NationalSecurityLaw Conviction -- Hongkonger Raises Sign in Silence: "If there is no jury, does #CommonLaw still exist?"

The first National Security Law case against 24-year-old Tong Ying-Kit resulted in a conviction on "inciting secession" and "terrorism".

On Jul 29, 2021 is the day for mitigation, and the sentencing is scheduled on Jul 30.

Michael, in his 70s this year, raised a sign he handwrote: "If there is no jury, does Common Law still exist?" at Taikoo Plaza and stood in silence.

In response to the conviction of Tong, he bluntly replied, "It's already expected" and criticized that "under Common Law, large cases that go to the High court must have juries present- why isn't there one all of a sudden?"

"The three judges collude with each other, and it is no different from Mainland China." He lamented, "Now there is no law. Rule of law is dead."

Michael predicted that Tong, "even without life imprisonment, will face more than 20 years [of jail]."

He also described that currently, "NSL rules us all," so action does not change much and he fears arrest. However, he still came out and expressed his sentiments. "I'm a hardliner- if you don't shout they'd think you're dead."

Source: InMedia HK #Jul29

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