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9 richest people in #HK express support for impending #CCP 'national security' law.
It was last in 2014 that CCP compelled HK tycoons to support its political aims, 'inviting' them to Beijing as a group to stand by Xi & endorse fake universal suffrage.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Not just #HK tycoons have endorsed this draconian, abusive step; companies have too- HSBC, Jardines, Standard Chartered. This is how HK, one of the most unequal places in the world, works: political & economic inequality are mutually reinforcing in an anti-democracy.
It wasn't enough for cowardly & craven HSBC to endorse the #CCP 'national security' law in #HK, it's now acting as the CCP's lobbyist, warning the UK not to exclude Huawei from its 5G network, claiming it could face reprisals in China. reuters.com/article/us-bri…
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The media's been full of images of police brutality in the US- George Floyd's murder & the treatment meted out to protesters. Some observers have been struck by their similarity to images from #HK over the past year, but the similarity's superficial...
nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/…
Compare the responses of US & #HK authorities & businesses: In Minnesota, where George Floyd was murdered by the police, the officers have been arrested, the governor & Dept of Human Rights have undertaken a civil rights investigation of Minneapolis police going back 10yrs....
& yesterday the Minneapolis City Council passed initial police reforms. Authorities in other states & cities are also enacting police reforms, & ideas of actually abolishing police forces as they now exist & repurposing policing have entered the mainstream nytimes.com/reuters/2020/0…
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A funny story from yesterday: A horde of police were trying to catch 2 youths they suspected of having thrown debris in the road. 1 cop dropped his baton. An old man picked it up, dropped it down a manhole cover, & sauntered away. When police came back for it, it was gone.
All of #HK's resisting tyranny, each as they can. This is an occupied city. It's not a free, or 'semi-free' city, any more than France was semi-free under Nazi occupation. #HK is occupied. Unless you apply this lens to the situation, it's hard to understand what's happening here.
Another story: Police are charging protesters on Canal Rd. Many scatter into Bowrington wet market. A protester asks a stall holder if he wants them to help move his wares indoors as police may charge through. The stall holder says, No, better to block them, may they all die.
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The queue’s 200 hundred meters long to get into the #LadyLiberty exhibit at openground in Sham Shui Po. Lady Liberty was destroyed by pro-CCPers on Lion Rock in Oct. A new Lady Liberty’s been made & the broken pieces of the old one, splattered in red paint, are also on display
In fact, the new #LadyLiberty is too big to fit in the 1st-floor exhibition space. She’s here only from the waist up. The artists wanted to display her on ground floor but ‘suddenly’ govt officials showed up, w police across the street, & said it was against some obscure code.
Many sculptures by #HK artists inspired by #LadyLiberty are being auctioned to raise funds for 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which helps protesters in need.
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