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[Seeking justice amid stalking by unknown agents]
1. Under #nationalsecuritylaw, the world may be wondering how it affects the daily life of ordinary #Hongkongers, especially #Hongkongprotestors. Chinese-style surveillance and stalking is one thing.
1. Under #nationalsecuritylaw, the world may be wondering how it affects the daily life of ordinary #Hongkongers, especially #Hongkongprotestors. Chinese-style surveillance and stalking is one thing.
2. Wonderful story by @BBC on how I was tailed by 3 unknown cars and 1 motorbike on the day that I applied to run for #HK legislature. bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-…
It's #TaiwanElection day here in #Taiwan, the last bastion of democracy in the Chinese speaking world. Long queues since 8am at the voting stations in #taipei 
Looks like the polling station I was at isn't a representative enough sample. Thanks goodness.
Are you curious whether NBA fans will stand up for Hong Kong at tonight’s season opener between the Lakers & the Clips? Me too! That’s why I’ll be outside @STAPLESCenter. laist.com/2019/10/22/hon…
My interest was piqued when I talked to the NBA fan from the Bay Area raised $43,000 in under two days to make pro-HK democracy T-shirts for other fans to wear at tonight’s season opener. This is him:
So he’s still going by the pseudonym Sun Lared. All he’ll tell me is he works in tech, is Taiwanese American, in his 30’s and hates that China has gotten US businesses to self-censor.
He’s had 13,000 shirts made to give away. Dozens are here to help him.
He’s had 13,000 shirts made to give away. Dozens are here to help him.
For those wondering why there are increasing conflicts between pro-nation state China and pro-HK folks, it is due to different understandings and beliefs of what the #HongKongProtests are about:
1. Belief in ethnic and cultural unity as a collective supersedes individualism.
1. Belief in ethnic and cultural unity as a collective supersedes individualism.
Geopolitical reasons aside, this belief by mainland nationalists is also one of the key reasoning why they lay “claim” to Taiwan. Sorry, let alone how Taiwan is culturally and ethnically diverse, along with active reconciliation efforts toward aboriginal peoples on the island,
1. This is the moment when we must look at the Chinese state and ask is this what we intended when we liberalized relations? First, I am one of the few folks you will ever encounter in the US who like Xi Jinping had a copy of Mao's little Red Book at 15.
2. When others didn't even know China as more than a place on a map, I was studying its politics and language. My professor had to write his own text books for written Chinese because they didn't exist in US. My teaching associates were children of party officials because they
3. were the only people being let out of PRC. When the #HongKong lease expired and the deal was struck, most folks thought China would liberalize. But I knew better. China's CCP is never going to relinquish its Leninist authoritarian grip on power. Not without bloodshed.
