Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reportedly reconsidered allowing Chinese tech giant Huawei access to the British 5G network, amidst increasing tensions with China over the coronavirus pandemic and the Chinese Communist Party’s infringement of freedoms in Hong Kong.
HONG KONG (AP) — The last British governor of Hong Kong said China has betrayed the semi-autonomous territory by tightening control over the city it had promised could keep freedoms not found on the mainland.
The National People’s Congress (NPC), the rubber-stamp legislature of the Chinese Communist Party, received a draft copy on Friday of the security law Beijing is planning to impose on Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong stock market was rocked by a massive sell-off on Friday after the Chinese Communist government in Beijing declared its intention to bypass the Hong Kong legislature and impose a draconian security law to shut down the protest movement. That single act effectively ended the island’s limited autonomy in the eyes of many residents and concerned international observers.
Lee Cheuk-yan of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democrat Movements of China, organizer of an annual June 4 vigil to remember the victims of Communist China’s murderous crackdown on Tiananmen Square in 1989, said on Wednesday that this year’s event will be held in a socially distant manner due to extended coronavirus bans on large public gatherings. Lee said the coronavirus restrictions are “disproportionate” to the state of the pandemic in Hong Kong and accused the Beijing-controlled government of using the emergency to suppress dissent.
The Chinese Communist Party’s sham legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), is reportedly preparing to bypass the Hong Kong legislature (which is looking more than a little shamtastic these days itself) and impose a set of national security laws that could crush the Hong Kong protest movement and hollow out what remains of the island’s limited autonomy.
Hong Kong television broadcaster RTHK announced on Tuesday that it would indefinitely suspend production of Headliner, a comedy show that has aired since 1989, after the government began harassing the channel over a law enforcement parody in February.
The government of Hong Kong announced on Tuesday a 14-day extension of bans on large public gatherings in the city, resulting in the prevention of any mass public events until June 5. June 4 is the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, an event Hong Kong typically marks with a candlelight vigil.
A brawl erupted in the Hong Kong legislature, commonly known as LegCo, on Monday when pro-Beijing lawmakers installed one of their own as House Committee chair.
Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong took to several shopping malls on Wednesday for protest events marking the birthday of Chief Executive Carrie Lam, complete with a fake birthday cake and celebratory singing modified to “happy birthday, fuck you.”
Police threatened an 18-year-old woman with arrest, reportedly for lying, after she accused Hong Kong police officers of raping her at the height of last year’s protests.
The government of Hong Kong announced on Tuesday that it has urged the city’s Legislative Council to adopt a law criminalizing insults against the national anthem of China, the “March of the Volunteers,” as soon as possible.
A violent crackdown featuring dozens of riot police resulted in the arrest of 230 people, including a lawmaker and several teen journalists, in Hong Kong on Sunday. Hong Kong protesters had organized peaceful Mother’s Day themed events to demand more stringent protections for their democracy.
The Hong Kong government stated that a local textile company with ties to Vietnam will produce its new reusable coronavirus masks, rejecting the option of masks made in China, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Friday.
Demonstrators held a sing-along at Hong Kong’s Admiralty Mall on Friday, defying a heavy police presence to call for independence and fly their banner of “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Time.”
On Monday, Hong Kong’s former health minister said face masks are largely ineffective in preventing transmission of the Chinese coronavirus, adding that he only wears them in public to be “polite,” Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Tuesday.
China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO), the top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) political office in Hong Kong, on Wednesday condemned pro-democracy demonstrators as a “political virus” that “must be eliminated” before Hong Kong can return to prosperity.
Hong Kong will relax limits on gatherings in public places starting Friday, as the city’s number of new Chinese coronavirus cases has not increased since April, Hong Kong news broadcaster RTHK reported on Tuesday.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used its Global Times state newspaper to lash out at Canada on Monday, insulting Canada as a “giant baby” throwing a temper tantrum because it dared to join the United States in “bashing” the World Health Organization (W.H.O.).
What began as a disarmingly calm day in Hong Kong after online chatter urging pro-democracy protests on Friday turned chaotic at Sha Tin’s New Town Plaza, where police attacked protesters with pepper spray and forced them out of the facility despite merely singing and chanting anti-government slogans.
Hundreds of people filled the inside of Cityplaza mall in Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong, on Sunday for a pro-democracy sing-along, the first major act of protest against the increasingly autocratic local government since the Chinese coronavirus limited public gatherings.
Nick Timothy, the former Chief of Staff to Theresa May, has called on the British government to reverse its policy of grovelling to the Chinese Communist Party.
Hong Kong police arrested 14 pro-democracy activists in a coordinated raid on Saturday for “illegal assembly” in connection with peaceful protests last year, Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Monday.
HONG KONG (AP) – The United States condemned the arrests of at least 14 veteran pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong on charges of joining massive anti-government protests last year, saying the police action jeopardizes a high degree of autonomy guaranteed the southern Chinese city.
Ousted pro-democracy legislator “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung was stabbed as he protested outside Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong on Thursday, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
Hong Kong’s new fire chief Joseph Leung on Wednesday dismissed criticism that he referred to pro-democracy protesters as “cockroaches” during a lecture at the Fire and Ambulance Services Academy in October.
The Chinese Communist Party bans and censors video games to keep Chinese players from discussing forbidden topics with foreigners.
China wants to ban the popular online video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons, due to it becoming a hub for dissidents to criticize Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and authorities in Hong Kong.
A court of appeal has ruled that Hong Kong’s ban on wearing masks at “unlawful” assemblies is constitutional, overturning a lower court decision, Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Thursday.
The issue was raised after a reporter for Phoenix TV questioned President Donald Trump on Monday at the White House press briefing, using talking points from Chinese propaganda.
Trump challenged a Hong Kong reporter after she asked the president about working with China to help fight the coronavirus. “Sounds like a statement more than a question,” Trump replied.
A brutal assault by Hong Kong police against protesters and bystanders at the Prince Edward station of Hong Kong’s MTR rail system on August 31, 2019, was one of the milestone events of the protest movement.
The government of Hong Kong officially reprimanded Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) reporter Yvonne Tong on Thursday, accusing her of violating the “One China” doctrine by asking World Health Organization (WHO) Assistant Director Bruce Aylward about Taiwan in an interview that became a viral sensation, and a global outrage, when Aylward refused to answer the question.
The eating of cats and dogs was officially claimed to be banned in the Chinese city of Shenzhen on Wednesday as part of a wider clampdown on the wildlife trade since the Wuhan coronavirus spread into a global pandemic.
Reuters on Friday reported on a poll that showed support growing for the pro-democracy protest movement in Hong Kong, even as the coronavirus epidemic makes it extremely difficult for them to hold protest rallies.
Hundreds of Hong Kong residents attended an event on Sunday to commemorate the death of Chan Yin-lam, a 15-year-old student who died under mysterious circumstances in September.
A few countries were still reporting zero infections from the Wuhan coronavirus this week – and some of those reports are viewed with extreme skepticism by outsiders – but at this point, the disease has reached most of the world’s large nations.
As the commercial airline industry grounds itself and travel restrictions bite in the face of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the private jet alternative is thriving thanks to the insatiable demands of the wealthy and the well-connected.
As nations across the world struggle to contain the Wuhan coronavirus, they should realize it is also long past time to quarantine the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
China censured the U.S. Wednesday for its “incorrect” characterization of the global coronavirus pandemic as Chinese in origin as it re-asserted the “right” to expel three American newspaper journalists and bar them even from working in nearby Hong Kong.
