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China’s effort to impose Communist ideology on the formerly free island of Hong Kong accelerated this week with the introduction of new textbooks that will teach “citizenship” — and edited Communist history — to students. 

Messaging and social networking app Telegram, which has built a reputation for guarding users from invasive government surveillance and censorship, appears to be buckling under official pressure, shutting down two dissident channels in Hong Kong following threats from regulators.

China’s top English-language government propaganda outlets completely ignored the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre this weekend, a return to a standard Beijing disposed of in 2019 when it began celebrating the mass murder following the rise of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement.

The Pillar of Shame, a haunting memorial to the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, stood proudly in Hong Kong for over twenty years until Communist goons finally managed to tear it down last December. The original statue has been buried in storage by the Chinese Communists, who are desperately trying to erase the Tiananmen massacre from history, but replicas are rising around the world with the blessing of the artist.

Hong Kong police warned the public Thursday not to “test” police officers with “unauthorized assemblies” on the upcoming anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported.

Outgoing Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that vigils for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre could violate not only coronavirus safety protocols, but also the draconian “national security law” imposed on the island by Beijing in 2020.

The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) told Chinese state media on Thursday it will replace its traditional British-style foot drills with the marching style favored by Communist China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) beginning on July 1, which marks the 25th anniversary of the United Kingdom handing control of Hong Kong to Beijing. 

Hong Kong’s security minister has defended the arrest of 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, insisting that everyone is equal under the law and exceptions should not be made.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday complained that the free world does not understand the genocidal, oppressive, slave-taking Chinese Communist Party’s unique “concept” of human rights – a failure of understanding that might be corrected with more propaganda to “promote mutual learning between China and the West.”

A new report finds that the NBA and its various owners have more than $10 billion invested in genocidal, Red China.

An anti-racist organisation given taxpayer funding by Sadiq Khan is under investigation after one of its directors reportedly denied the communist genocide of Uyghurs in China.

The president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences has condemned the arrest of Cardinal Joseph Zen, accusing Hong Kong of having become a “police state.”

Condemnations poured in from around the world on Wednesday as Hong Kong’s newly “elected” chief executive John Lee invoked China’s authoritarian “national security law” to arrest 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen and two other prominent opposition figures.

ROME — Hong Kong police arrested 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen on Wednesday evening, then released him on bail hours later.

China’s communist regime cemented its stranglehold over Hong Kong on Sunday with an election to replace Chief Executive Carrie Lam that featured one candidate, John Lee, who allegedly received over 99 percent of the vote.

The city of Shanghai is in danger of losing its status as a financial hub, as international bankers and traders consider fleeing the city to escape its brutal coronavirus lockdown – and the perpetual threat of further lockdowns imposed without notice under China’s “dynamic zero-Covid” policies.

Kenneth Tsang, a stalwart of the “Golden Age” of Cantonese cinema, was found dead in a Hong Kong hotel room on Wednesday while undergoing mandatory quarantine after returning from overseas, local media reported.

Despite Conservative Party talk of securing the border, 2022 is likely to see record immigration when compared to pre-Brexit Britain.

Hong Kong health officials confirmed this week that 1,100 cadavers remained in municipal cold storage facilities unclaimed because local funeral parlors have failed to keep up with the surging demand for funerals caused by Hong Kong’s latest epidemic of the Chinese coronavirus, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Friday.

The future of Florida’s Disney World is the subject of much speculation this week after its parent corporation decided to meddle in politics and met unexpectedly stiff resistance, but Disney can take some solace in knowing its Hong Kong park reopened on Thursday after three months of coronavirus shutdown, and the response from Hong Kong patrons was very enthusiastic.

Prominent Chinese neurologist Rao Yi, president of Capital Medical University in Beijing, on Wednesday criticized the government’s decision to ship millions of doses of a traditional Chinese herbal cure to Shanghai, even as the city’s captive population struggles to find food and medicine during a grueling coronavirus lockdown.

Two Hong Kong pro-democracy activists arrested for opposing communism told Voice of America in a report published Tuesday that they faced extreme indoctrination while in prison consisting of Chinese communist propaganda films meant to encourage them to abandon their identity as Hongkongers.

According to a report, the Brooklyn Nets tried to ban former Rockets GM Daryl Morey after his support of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy groups

Carrie Lam, the massively unpopular chief executive for the Beijing-controlled government of Hong Kong, announced on Monday morning she will not run for a second five-year term in May.

China Central Television (CCTV) on Wednesday night aired the first National Basketball Association (NBA) game in 17 months, seemingly concluding a blackout that began soon after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey shared an image supportive of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement. 

After days of touting the multi-stage quarantine and testing strategy deployed in Shanghai as a pioneering experiment in soft-touch pandemic control techniques, Chinese state media abruptly reversed itself on Wednesday and hailed dictator Xi Jinping for demanding nothing less than total lockdowns in response to every outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Britain said Wednesday that it is withdrawing its judges from Hong Kong’s top court because keeping them there would “legitimize oppression”.

Hong Kong’s government announced Thursday it had asked China’s ruling Communist Party to send “experts” in “Traditional Chinese Medicine” (TCM) to Hong Kong in an effort to help treat certain symptoms of the Chinese coronavirus in elderly Hong Kong patients, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) reported.

The Singapore government announced Thursday from April 1st it will no longer require mandatory quarantines for vaccinated travellers – providing they have a negative coronavirus test – on arrival.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) stated that he thinks China “believes that we need to respect the sovereignty of its own country and of other countries.” And maintained that China’s actions towards Tibet, Hong

Just 300 coffins remained in Hong Kong as of March 17 due to a recent surge in coronavirus deaths, a funeral industry spokesman said.

Chinese state media on Monday celebrated dictator Xi Jinping’s allegedly brilliant “insights” for guiding China through the coronavirus crisis – but Xi has been conspicuously invisible during the massive coronavirus wave sweeping across China for the past few months, just as he disappeared during the initial outbreak in early 2020.

Senior Chinese Politburo member Yang Jiechi berated U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan over America’s support for Taiwan and opposition to genocide in an “intense” meeting on Monday that lasted seven hours, according to Chinese state media.

Iranian authorities said Monday they have arrested several operatives allegedly linked to Israel who attempted to sabotage an Iranian nuclear facility.

UK activist Benedict Rogers told Breitbart News he will “not be silenced” after the Hong Kong government threatened him with life in prison.

China’s southern economic hub of Shenzhen was placed into coronavirus lockdown on Monday, jeopardizing major foreign business operations and trapping some 24 million residents inside the surrounding province. The industrial hub city of Changchun was locked down on Friday, trapping 9 million citizens inside their homes and halting most corporate activity.