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Dec 31, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read Read on X
🔻 it’s gonna be 2022 in less than 45 minutes in Hong Kong... some people are still fighting on.

And they are playing Namewee’s 玻璃心... 💪
~20 cops lounging around earning extra pay at this corner
Happy New Year!
Fireworks in the distance and live on screen...
We are of course very “safe”...

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Jan 22, 2024
Another woman in the video is Adelina Zhang (张宁), who has been serving as hosts in various 🇨🇳 state events in the UK for years. She’s also worked with Newton Leng, the man who yelled at Brendan in the video.

h/t @samdunningo @ftiauto_ptdauto



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Adelina Zhang has clearly undergone plastic surgery (left pic: Zhang in 2017)

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The CCP moved fast: they’ve scrubbed the Sohu article in the first tweet in this thread already!

Luckily I’ve archived the same article on another website!!!



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Mar 26, 2023
Serbia, Mar 19: 🇨🇳 state-owned China Communications Construction Company demolished the monument to fallen soldiers of the First and Second World Wars in the village of Negrishori during the construction of the Pakovraće - Požega highway.

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The demolition sparked an outrage among veterans’ groups and local residents.

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👇🏻 the monument
In 2021 🇨🇳 China Communications Construction Company promised that the monument would be relocated and the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments in Kraljevo would be informed in advance. But the Chinese company simply demolished it…

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👇🏻 the monument in pieces
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Mar 24, 2023
🚨 Hong Kong department store Sogo removed LA-based artist Patrick Amadon’s digital artwork No Rioters, an Art Basel exhibit, that contained references to jailed dissidents such as Benny Tai, Joshua Wong and Gwyneth Ho, at the “request” of HK Police.

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Patrick Amadon: “It was too much watching Art Week in Hong Kong pretend the Chinese government didn’t crush a democracy and turn Hong Kong into a vassal surveillance state... because it’s a convenient location for a good market.”

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news.artnet.com/art-world/prot…
“I think it sends the message that money can buy absolution yet again.”

The international community is colluding with the CCP-backed administration to put on an “everything is fine” facade for the police state.

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apnews.com/article/hong-k…
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Feb 8, 2023
Tina Zhang (张), a 34-year-old 🇨🇳 woman from Qingdao, Shandong province, posted videos on Douyin of her hanging out on Yanaha Island (屋那霸岛) — the biggest uninhabited island in Okinawa — which she claimed she bought in 2020.

Yanaha is just ~60km from 🇺🇸 Kadena Air Base.

1/n twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The videos went viral on social media and 🇨🇳 news media 红星新闻 ran a story on it on Feb 3…

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🇯🇵 news site Sakisiru broke the news in Japan, causing an uproar and sparking national security concerns. I’m not sure if there’s any coverage in mainstream Japanese media though.

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sakisiru.jp/40825
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Nov 26, 2022
Shanghai, Nov 26: people gather on Urumqi Middle Road (乌鲁木齐中路) to commemorate those who died in the blaze in Urumqi on Nov 24 while repeatedly yelling “不要核酸要自由” ([we] don’t want PCR tests; [we] want freedom!)…

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People face up to the cops arriving at the scene…

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🔥 You won’t believe this: the people on Urumqi Middle Road in Shanghai are yelling “共产党、下台! 共产党、下台!” (Communist Party, step down! Communist Party, step down!)

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Nov 25, 2022
Xinjiang capital Urumqi tonight (Nov 25): residents are roaming the streets demanding 解封 (lift the lockdown restrictions)… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
White guards are reportedly blocking residents from going out in Urumqi’s Xishan residential district…
Residents waving 🇨🇳 and chanting the national anthem near a government building in a community in Urumqi’s #12 Division #104 Corps (第12师104团)…
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