Sing Tao Daily reported that some Chinese foreign policy officials published an article that said the anti-sanction law passed by #Beijing will be executable in #HongKong and it can be used to make the city's national security legal framework more complete.cna.com.tw/news/acn/20210…
The article was published under the Chinese Communist Party school's affiliated publication and the two authors are government officials with foreign policy expertise.
In the article, they wrote the anti-sanction law will become a useful tool for #China to counter sanctions imposed by foreign countries. They proposed that since the #NSL enacted in #HongKong last year was carried out by being included in Annex 3 of the Basic Law in #HK.
The article quoted Chinese scholar Tien Fei-long, suggesting #Beijing can also impose the anti-sanction law in #HongKong through the same method, by including the law into Annex 3 of the Basic Law.
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Latest for @dwnews with colleague Joyce: Yesterday, #HongKong bid farewell to #AppleDaily in the rain. Reporters at the publication shared their sentiments with us.
"I just want to be a competent journalist, why do I have to suffer like this?" dw.com/en/apple-daily…
"Hours before Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, announced Wednesday it would cease operations once and for all, dozens of its journalists arrived at the printing plant early Thursday morning to observe the last edition roll off the press."
Emily, who joined the paper in 2019, said she had been on the front lines of the 2019 pro-democracy protests that shook Hong Kong for months, and led to a crackdown from Beijing on the semi-autonomous city's civil liberties.
In his first visit to Germany as US Secretary of State, @SecBlinken said the United States had "no better friend" than Germany as the two nations pledged a common front on Russia and #China following a still raw row over the Nord Stream pipeline. channelnewsasia.com/news/world/us-…
"I think it's fair to say that the United States has no better partner, no better friend in the world than Germany," Blinken said with Merkel at his side.
In a dramatic reversal from her unapologetically frosty relationship with Trump, Merkel said she saw a "common basis not only for naming the geopolitical challenges in the world but also for agreeing on a common approach".
According to @WSJ, Chinese researchers directed the U.S. National Institutes of Health to delete gene sequences of early #COVID19 cases from a key scientific database, raising concerns that scientists may lack access to key information to study its origin. wsj.com/articles/covid…
The NIH confirmed that it deleted the sequences after receiving a request from a Chinese researcher who had submitted them three months earlier.
“Submitting investigators hold the rights to their data and can request withdrawal of the data,” the NIH said in a statement.
The removal of the sequencing data is described in a new paper posted online Tuesday by Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
An incredible investigation by @propublica and @nytimes about how #China spreads its #Xinjiang propaganda through "testimonial videos." "An analysis of more than 3,000 of the videos evidence of an influence campaign orchestrated by the Chinese government." nytimes.com/interactive/20…
"Most of the clips carry no logos or other signs that they are official propaganda.
But taken together, the videos begin to reveal clues of broader coordination — such as the English subtitles in clips posted to YouTube and other Western platforms."
"Beijing is trying to use savvier and more forceful methods to broadcast its political messages to a worldwide audience. And Western internet platforms like Twitter and YouTube are playing a key part."
"Less than a week after a dramatic raid of its newsroom and freezing of its assets, Hong Kong’s most famous pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily announced on Wednesday that they will publish the last edition of its physical paper on Thursday ...
... and cease operations and online news updates by midnight on the same day. The announcement comes two days before the original plan of publishing the paper’s last edition on Saturday, which was made by the board of directors of its parent company Next Digital."