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Mar 15 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The equity markets open sharply lower in both Hong Kong and China today...
🔻 pretty brutal in the first few minutes
🔻 after the first 30 minutes
🔻another bloodbath in Hong Kong and China today!

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Mar 16
🚨 Lin Qiming, an agent with 🇨🇳 Ministry of State Security, asked a US-based private investigator to help manufacture a political scandal that would undermine an unidentified US congressional candidate — believed to be Xiong Yan (熊焱).

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In another case, Chinese government agents spied on employees of an unidentified human rights NGO based in Washington.

In a third case, Chinese government agents tried to intimidate Arthur Liu, a lawyer / political activist in San Francisco and the father of professional

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Mar 14
🚨 UK-based human rights group Hong Kong Watch has received a formal warning from the Hong Kong Police Force’s National Security Department — Hong Kong Gestapo — regarding its website possibly breaching the National Security Law. hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2022…
🚨 Hong Kong Gestapo says the national security law of Hong Kong applies worldwide.

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“Attempting to silence voices globally that speak up for freedom and democracy is unacceptable and will never succeed.”

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Jan 12
🔥 An email from Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, to Dr Anthony Fauci and Dr Francis Collins of the US NIH on Feb 2 2020 said that “a likely explanation” was that Covid had rapidly evolved from a Sars-like virus inside human tissue

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Professor Mike Farzan of Scripps Research, the expert who discovered how the original Sars virus binds to human cells, was bothered by the furin site

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Bob Garry of University of Texas was unconvinced that Covid-19 emerged naturally: “I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature.”

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In 2019, US-born Eileen Gu announced she would switch national affiliations and compete for China in 2022. 

Gu has signed with the IMG modeling agency, appeared in Vogue Hong Kong, and attended September’s Met Gala in New York. A Red Bull-sponsored

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lauded Gu’s skill in everything from piano and ballet to rock climbing. 🇨🇳 state media CCTV has called her “the perfect child next door.” 

Gu can significantly boost China’s typically modest Winter Games medal haul by herself.

Why does she still live in the US?

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🚨New security risks 🚨

🇨🇳 Yealink doesn’t have the name recognition of Huawei but its phones are widely installed across the US including in government agencies. Yealink phones exchange encrypted messages with Chinese-based Alibaba Cloud multiple

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Yealink’s service agreement requires users to accept China’s laws, while “a related set of service terms allows the active monitoring of users when required by the ‘national interest’ (of China).” 

🚨 Are Yealink phones installed in Five Eyes, Quad, NATO, etc?

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China is seeking opportunities for infrastructure, minerals and military bases in Eritrea, Kenya and Comoros.

Wang Yi will fly to the Maldives and Sri Lanka after Comoros. Can the US push back against China’s growing clout in the Indian Ocean?

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