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Jun 23, 2021 7 tweets 3 min read Read on X
1. Most of you may not understand how dreadful the closure of Apple Daily means to Hong Kong. Not only to its journalistic landscape, but also to the people and the city itself. This is their last day. They are going to print 1 million copies tomorrow to commerate the fight.
2. The parent company of Apple Daily, Next Digital Limited, is a listed company. The govt forced a listed company to close itself in a matter of days, though signs have been there for months.
3. By arresting executives, journalists and freezing the asserts, the companies cannot pay their staffers, and staffers are afraid of being arrested. The paper with a history of 26 years is gone. The companies and the arresstees are not even trialed yet.
4. Apple Daily is a popular newspaper. It ranked 3rd most credible newspaper in the latest poll by a university research institute. People supporting democracy support them as well. Apple daily is murdered by an authoritarian regime, with the latest weaponized legal state.
5. More than 1000 workers lost their jobs. A charity operated by Apple Daily that subsidizes underprivileged patients to pay for expensive patent drugs is also closed immediately. They lost all fundings. People lost more than a news channel that dares to speak differently.
6. Supporters vowed their support to the paper outside its building on its last day. It's a heartbreaking scene, and the govt singlehanded created this tragedy. CCP does not tolerate truth and independent journalism. They crush our civil society, our proud tradition.
7. We are saddened, but we won't give up. I will continue the work in the diasporic community, with supporting more on reporting on the ground and preserving its culture. Hope all of you are also supporting the struggles of Hong Kong people as well.
#StandWithHongKong
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Mar 13
Good move.
PRC-related company ByteDance has overwhelming control over TikTok, and the concern is beyond users’ private data. TikTok can be integrated into China’s information warfare easily so that the PRC can indirectly control what people see.
bbc.co.uk/news/live/worl…
Some more facts to be shared:
1. Details of the relationship between TikTok and ByteDance remain unclear to outsiders. Staff sometimes don’t know who to report to, and who to get directions from. It shows that ByteDance has the ability to affect TikTok’s decision-making.
2. China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law states that “any organization” must assist or cooperate with state intelligence work; 2014 Counter-Espionage Law says “relevant organizations ... may not refuse” to collect evidence for an investigation.
ByteDance is not an exception.
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Jul 3, 2023
1. For the past years, the National Security Bureau has been accusing me of violating the National Security Law. Today, the specifics of the were revealed: Incitement to secession, collusion with foreign forces to endanger national security.
One million HKD bounty is warranted.
2. I have previously been "wanted" for other cases, and obtained refugee status in the UK two years ago. These charges are classic examples of abusing the concept of "national security", pushing its definition to an extreme to suppress dissident voices.
3. In civilized countries, the right to peaceful political advocacy should be protected. That’s what all the “wanted” individuals do. I urge National Security Bureau to disclose any evidence of my alleged collusion with foreign forces.
Read 5 tweets
Nov 30, 2022
1/
「中國示威群眾在爭取些甚麼?」「他們清楚自己的目標嗎?」
非常重要,卻難以準確回答的問題,畢竟任何公正的群眾研究是幾乎不可能進行的。由要求解封到呼籲政制改革,示威群眾有寬闊的口號,也有個別參加者呼籲不要摻和挑戰大一統、政權的想法。 Image
2/
一張白紙,各種表述,是在這場運動中難以避免,皆因廣泛地凝聚群眾共識的條件(尤其是在牆內)並不存在。
那麼該如何團結不同聲音?
我沒有答案。或者說,我們感到很需要答案,但抱歉並不可能有答案,而且很可能不太需要答案。
3/
我們必須接納光譜的存在,呼聲的多元,接納有人比較溫和、激進,接納未來可以帶領談判的人並不完全覆蓋所有人的聲音。在這個前提下,大家必須海納百川地爭取更多人同意自己的路線。
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Nov 28, 2022
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Quick updates of #Chinaprotest:
- Police are stationed in many main protest sites
- Protestors started to be arrested by police
- Some of the early patches of protestors are released
- Citizens continue to pop up at street corners with blank papers
2/
Things that are worthwhile looking at:
- Attitude of the central govt. News showed that some of the city’s COVID control have been relaxed, but that’s not the whole country. I believe Beijing has not yet decided how to react.
3/
- Demands of people. Slogans range from “end COVID lockdown” to “Down with CCP/ Xi.” It would be interesting to see whether there’s a consolidation of what people want
- Overseas protests. Tens of overseas protests were organised in the past weekend ....
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Nov 27, 2022
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歷史總是幻變,潮流由意志捲動──它並非命定進程,而是由人創造的未來。
就像香港逃犯條例、突尼西亞水果商以及台灣煙販,體制暴力所引發的不公義,足可燃點人民內心對自由的渴望。烏魯木齊的大火如是。
反抗未必成功,但它彰顯人性光芒;光芒或會熄滅,但一切星火皆有印記。
我雖力弱,但不屈從。
2/
很多抗議浪潮的畫面,如教授挺身而出阻擋武警前進、學生在手機燈光下舉白紙示威、「重慶哥」的聲嘶力竭,這些都讓我回想起在2019年實時感受到的香港示威浪潮。
在牆內的朋友,很多都會以為香港示威是「外國煽動」、「暴徒亂港」,但或許你們現在已經感受到,那些只是為掙脫牢籠飛翔的渴望。
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近日我收到很多類似的「懺悔文」,我想跟你們說聲:It’s alright. 人生而在世,到處都是枷鎖,過去的你被政權蒙敝了,眼界開闊後,決心不要再回去就好。
容我再多說一次:沒有外部勢力能「煽動」一群又一群,明知會面對數以年計牢獄,甚至「被失蹤」風險的人上街。香港群眾如是,中國群眾如是。
Read 8 tweets
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1. This is a short thread about the infiltration of totalitarian CCP propaganda machines, their assaults on democratic traditions and an appeal to actions in UK.
The Chinese Communist Party tries to get a free pass on their appalling human rights atrocities. We must stop them.
2. Yesterday, a group of pro-Beijing organizations hosted an "anti-Asian hate" rally in Chinatown. Of course, it's indispensable to address the problems of racial-based hate crime. But the speakers kept equating criticism on China to stirring hate to Chinese people.
3. That's literally not true. In fact, CCP is the most racist country -- they lock millions of ethnic minorities in modern-day concentration camps just because of their religion. We criticize CCP for their suppression to minorities, so to the others.
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