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[Response to US's visa ban on CCP officials]
1. When #Beijing insists on ramming through an unpopular & sweeping #nationalsecuritylaw that imperils HK’s autonomy, @SecPompeo just announced visa bans on #CCP officials responsible for undermining #HK’s autonomy and human rights.
1. When #Beijing insists on ramming through an unpopular & sweeping #nationalsecuritylaw that imperils HK’s autonomy, @SecPompeo just announced visa bans on #CCP officials responsible for undermining #HK’s autonomy and human rights.
2. Since the draconian law is directly imposed by Beijing, without any respect for #hongkongers' will, #Beijing should be held accountable for the swift erosion of HK’s autonomy & freedoms, from #policebrutality, vanishing judicial independence and prevalent political censorship.
3. This is the first sanction using #HongKongHumanRightsAndDemocracyAct that was passed last year. I believe today’s visa restriction should be just the beginning.
This video has been deleted by Facebook several times. Is it really necessary for around ten policemen to gather to subdue only one armless protestor who had already been lain on the ground? Is it necessary to hit him when he had already been under control?
#HongKongProtests #HongkongPoliceTerrorists #HongKongHumanRightsAndDemocracyAct #StandWithHongKong #HongKongers #hongkongpolicebrutality #HongKongProtesters
@arcanum_17 Here comes a better version (without the unrelated background music)🙏🏻🙏🏻
Professor Julian Ku’s analysis of the #HongKongHumanRightsandDemocracyAct is on the spot. As many of us have stressed, we live by symbols, and Julian spells out the symbolic, political significance of this largely “redundant” law.
What he does not deal with here, but is well-qualified to do, is the very recent ludicrous PRC claim that the #HongKongHumanRightsandDemocracyAct will be a violation of public international law.
On the contrary, it should be seen as an important measure of support for the democratic political and civil rights that many treaties and customary international law have long guaranteed but that the PRC has often blatantly violated.
The Chinese government and its proxies in #HongKong hold nor more legitimacy in Hong Kong than did King George's troops in the American colonies. Those holding the guns on the streets of Hong Kong are protecting and advancing the authoritarian-collectivist-nationalist regime ...
in Beijing, serving the slow but inexorable march to the complete rule of Hong Kong by Beijing. Those holding the guns are not protecting the individual rights or property of #HongKongers. Every Hongkonger is in the moral right to use any and all force in retaliation ...
against the agents of a government that subjugates the individual, throttles the freedom of the individual, takes the life of the individual -- all in the name of the collective. The students have drawn their line in the sand.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell failed to support the #HongKongHumanRightsAndDemocracyAct, after it was passed by the House. To understand why, research and tweet more on his and his wife Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao's many links to Chinese money. #DrainTheSwamp. 
My latest. Hong Kong, China and the United States: A Major International Issue jeromecohen.net/jerrys-blog/ho…
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The currently contemplated Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act in the United States is immediately of symbolic importance but will also add to American leverage over Beijing in practical terms because of its threat to eliminate Hong Kong’s special status under American law.
The so called “nuclear option” the Act authorizes would add to HK’s protection against the PRC’s use of military force to govern HK, but, as the “nuclear” name suggests, actual resort to this deterrent would substantially harm HK economically in order to “save” it politically.
Central MTR station is rather crowded and full of black-clad people as thousands head to Chater Garden for today’s police-sanctioned rally and march.
Inside the station: two women with US flags and spare to hand out
It’s like the 4th of July here or something. (Taken about an hour ago.) #HongKongProtests
