(1) What are the chances of a private bill in the UK Parliment raised by a Liberal Democrat calling for the UK to grant automatic right of abode to BNO passport holders from Hong Kong - when the UK treated HK people as lowly non-citizens in a colony for 155 years? U figure
(2) 2nd Reading of the Hong Kong Bill (private member's bill - NOT a govt bill) in the UK Parliament on 25/2/2021
(3) Hey but this is good enough to motivate the delusional suckers with BNO toilet paper passports to dream of being upgraded from unwanted ex-colonial subjects or unwanted descendents of ex-colonial subjects to British citizens
(1) HK pro-independence advocate Tony Chung, founder of Studentlocalism, who is facing natiional security charges (conspiracy to publish seditious material, secession & money laundering), remained in custody in Hong Kong today after judge denied bail until the next hearing on
(2) 1 June (pre-trial on 16 August also scheduled)
Tony Chung & another youngster sought asylum at the US Consulate in Hong Kong in December 2020, yet the Consulate staffers just said "let's keep in touch" as they were rejected
(1) HK LegCo Rules of Procedure to be amended after motion has been passed to curb filibustering - a “red card” mechanism will be introduced, so that if a legislator commits any misconduct during a meeting, the LegCo President could mark down his/her name
(2) & allow the acting chairperson to propose a motion to suspend his/her duties without amendment or debate - if the motion is passed, then the relevant legislator’s duties would be suspended for 1 week for the 1st offence, with subsequent increase in duration for repeated
(3) offence - to improve the efficiency of deliberations, another motion was also proposed to amend the relevant rules so that the tenures of the chairpersons and vice-chairpersons would be extended until a successful election of the successor for the next council
(1) in Hong Kong, fomer Democratic Party legislator Lam Cheuk-ting appeared in court yesterday for a hearing on a rioting charge for his role in the violent clashes at Yuen Long MTR Station on 21 July 2019, as well as his alleged attempt to pervert the
(2) course of justice during the “Reclaim Tuen Mun Park” illegal protest on 6 July 2019 - that day Lam took part in this protrest to "restore" the park citing "nuisance caused by noiing dancing aunties from mainland China", & he was alleged to have been caught on video giving
(3) instructions to protesters to snatch a mobile phone of a man outside a police station in order to "delete pics on this phone, which can be used as evidence by police" after the march - Lam was originally released on bail in both cases, but yesterday
(1) a Hong Kong construction worker, aged 38, was jailed for 13 months for inciting an unlawful assembly, after the Court of Appeal ruled that a lower court imposed a “manifestly inadequate” order of 160 hours of community service - the first person to face criminal prosecution
(2) over posting provocative messages on social media since protests erupted in June 2019 - Poon Yung-wai published posts in a Facebook group under the pseudonym ‘Kim Jong-un’, claiming to have learned about alleged sexual assaults at remote holding centre in HK & inciting online
(3) users to besiege San Uk Ling Holding Centre by making false allegations against police, claiming officers had molested and raped female protesters detained at the facility - the chief judge of the High Court, said the offence warranted a jail sentence even for first-time
(1) 8 of the 12 HK people who were intercepted in mainland waters by the Chinese coastguard on 23/8/2020 after boarding a Taiwan-bound speedboat have been returned to HK today, after serving their sentences for crossing the border illegally
(2) among the 8 released from Shenzhen prison & returned to HK, Andy Li 李宇軒 was arrested last August on suspicion of money laundering & collusion with foreign forces, an offence under the national security law, but he fled (left- Li visited a US official in Washington)
(3) before charges were laid - now appropriate charges are expected to be laid soon - Andy Li is Founder of pro-secession organization "Hong Kong Story" & a member of “Fight for Freedom-Stand With HK,” an organization that seeks foreign assistance for the HK protests
Neither communism nor electoral democracy should be singularly spread throughout the world, as there exists more than one way to run a successful modern nation
2013 talk by Eric Xun Li 李世默, Venture capitalist, founder of Chengwei Capital & Guancha.cn 观察者网