HOME IN THE #US FOR FIRST TIME IN 2.5 YEARS 🙌 Yes, I will return to #Beijing, but for now I’m gonna relish being in the land of the free, home of the brave 🇺🇸🤣 This thread will be occasional musings about re-entry into my own country which has changed dramatically in this time
First: Dunkin’ Donuts now serves #avocado toast. When did this happen??? 🤷🏻♀️
Aside: I flew thru #HongKong which was mostly all closed (except the Cathay lounge which was as usual amazing 💁🏻♀️). Dust on shop counters, socially distanced seating, etc
(And 当然, leaving Beijing was full of random mafans but that’s a Twitter thread for another day)
But more imptly, back to @dunkindonuts! Pleased to see slogan remains “#America runs on Dunkin’” but why are chocolate kreme donuts now w the puff on flat side not the rim?? Accident perhaps?? (My fave, next to Krispy Kreme original). 🥃 on me if you guess which DD I’m at!
Biscoff cookies are like twice the size than they are anywhere else in the world. 😹 My Kindle, for scale:
OVERWHELMED BY CHOICE 🍷🙀
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Lots has happened in the 2 yrs since a controversial extradition proposal brought millions of #HongKong people to the streets. Explore how much has changed & what next with @Telegraph@TelegraphWorld's series, "Future of Hong Kong"
1 | #HongKong’s vigorous legal profession is finding itself increasingly forced to adapt to a communist concept of governance and justice under increasing mainland Chinese control. By @niccijsmithtelegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/0…
Decline in barristers practising in #HongKong, partly bc younger professionals moving to work elsewhere, incl UK. One young barrister, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said she wanted to stay, but “I don’t know when it will get to the point where it is unbearable for me.”
Ancestors of those in #China claiming Jewish heritage – prob merchants from Persia – settled >1,000 yrs ago in Kaifeng, then a bustling imperial capital during Northern Song Dynasty. Through dynasties, wars, natural disasters, Cultural Revolution, they kept their history alive
Pressure now renewed under Chinese leader Xi Jinping's campaign against foreign influence, unsanctioned religions - all part of push to 'Sinicise' faith in #China. But the Kaifeng #Jews are a resilient bunch - as I discovered on a recent visit
.@AzizIsaElkun, a British Uighur who has campaigned from the UK about #China’s internment camps for Muslim minorities, revealed he had been sent msgs from his mother, apparently under duress via WhatsApp from Turkey & Hong Kong numbers. He believes it’s a warning to silence him
.@SimonCh15198572, a former British consulate employee in Hong Kong who was tortured by Chinese secret police, said he had been followed at least three times in the last two weeks
#China has occupied 60+ sqkm of Indian territory in eastern Ladakh, acc to senior Indian Army source. @Telegraph can reveal up to 12,000 Chinese troops pushed over #India border last month amid violent clashes as Beijing squeezes Modi for closer ties w US telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/1…
3 Indian soldiers killed in Galwan Valley in Ladakh last night by Chinese troops, 1st casualties along 3,488km border since 1975, as threat of war intensifies. #India says there were also Chinese deaths though #Beijing has yet to confirm telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/1…#China@joerwallen
Maps showing the disputed #India-#China border region. @Telegraph scoop last week revealed at least 12,000 Chinese troops had occupied 60 sq km of Indian-administered Ladakh
More #Wuhan postcards: Entrance to Carrefour; makeshift takeout window through metal barrier; makeshift barrier, period - everything plus the kitchen sink; #Communist Party disaster relief tent (these are still everywhere)
The #Yangtze River lit up at night; view from the Hankou side. A sealed path due to #coronavirus. And 2 signs letting everyone know there are no #COVID19 illnesses, fevers etc in this #epidemic-free compound for 30 consecutive days #Wuhan
#Wuhan resident Chen Min, 65, died within 10 days of developing fever, cough. Docs never tested her for #coronavirus. She's not incl in official govt count of 56 dead & suggests scale of problem is *far* greater than #China has acknowledged telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/2…@Telegraph
@Telegraph To be clear: Her symptoms were consistent w the new virus infection though docs at 3 hospitals in #Wuhan kept sending her home w basic cold meds, even when a CT scan showed shadows in her lungs – not enough beds. She was finally placed in isolation Jan 15 & died 6 hours later