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Nury Vittachi
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Nury Vittachi is a writer based in Hong Kong, editor of https://t.co/5u0t4uUW4M, news of Asia without the Western lens
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Aug 23, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A thread: Image 2. US government secretly told TikTok that it would not be banned in the country—if it allowed American agents access to the records of TikTok users, Forbes reported. TikTok has a billion users worldwide, with 150 million in the United States.
Jun 23, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
OOPS. THIS WAS AWKWARD. In 2012, US defense planners made an embarrassing discovery. Lots of US military gear came from China. This included bits of their jetfighters, the glass in their nightvision goggles, the chemicals in their hellfire missiles, and so on. This was terribly problematic—you see, there were already advanced plans identifying China as a potential target for a future war. In effect the US had outsourced key elements of the coming war against China … to China.
Apr 13, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Here are 10 (or more) amazing statistics about the west, that wonderfully creative, dazzling, colorful thirteen per cent chunk of humanity—and which appears to be in decline.
Life expectancy in the United States has fallen from almost 79 four years ago to about 76 now. In poorer parts of the UK, life expectancy has fallen below 75 for women, while men die in their 60s. Image
Nov 7, 2022 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
The present U.S. administration’s determination to stop the world selling vital semiconductors to China “is an act of economic warfare”, top Financial Times columnist Martin Wolfe wrote on Friday. 2/ The move “is far more threatening to Beijing than anything Donald Trump did,” he added. “The aim is clearly to slow China’s economic development. That is an act of economic warfare.”
Jun 30, 2022 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
1/ MOVE OVER, New York and London. Hong Kong is celebrating its 25th birthday having reached world-class heights in a number of fields, as one of the healthiest, wealthiest, safest places on earth. Here are 12 statistics, a thread: 2/ Blue skies, which became rare in Hong Kong in the 1990s, are now common again: Major air pollutants have dropped between 34 and 80 percent in the past couple of decades years.
Aug 20, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Report from yesterday's court hearing #HongKong 1) Andy Li was one of the official leaders of the “Stand With Hong Kong” group, along with Finn Lau, while Chan Tsz-wah liaised behind the scenes with the de facto leaders, Jimmy Lai and Mark Simon, prosecutors said.