What value & risks for you feel solidarity from different international contexts can hold?
1/ The support for freedoms can be found in many countries. The authoritarian threat from China is real to all of them.
1/ The support for freedoms can be found in many countries. The authoritarian threat from China is real to all of them.
2/ Soon after President Xi came to power, China became increasingly hostile on an international level. Xi leverages economic shares for overseas political influence, tramples upon our human-rights standards and institutions.
3/ Also, Xi praises the superiority of the authoritarian regimes over democracies through propaganda programmes, and bends international communities to his political will. In other words, the authoritarian threat is at their doorstep, which is why they stand with Hong Kong.
4/ Standing with Hong Kong: An Interview with Joshua Wong, authors of #UnfreeSpeech, discuss free speech in Hong Kong, coronavirus, and the role of literature in campaigning for global democracy: pentransmissions.com/2020/03/31/sta…
More about my book: hyperurl.co/unfreespeech
More about my book: hyperurl.co/unfreespeech
