🇺🇦 Alejancä

Surreal moments. Diving into the deep. Already troubled mind. 📍Borrowed place on borrowed time

[🇺🇦 Alejancä @alejanchan]

True leader, Ukrainian hero. #GloryToUkraine #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦💙💛

[CNN @CNN]

"We desire to see our children alive. I think it's a fair one."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was met with a standing ovation from the European Parliament after a powerful speech that caused the EU translator on the English language feed to choke up with emotion.

[Dr. Rainer Kraft, MdB 🇩🇪 @Dr_Rainer_Kraft]

Grüße aus der Republik China.

Taiwan produziert fast 70 % aller Halbleiter und über 90 % der modernsten Chips der Welt. Wer Taiwan kontrolliert, kontrolliert den technologischen Nerv der Weltwirtschaft.

Und Deutschland? Versteckt sich weiter hinter der „Ein-China-Politik“ genauso realitätsfern und dumm wie die infantile Zwei-Staaten-Romantik im Nahen Osten oder die Politik gegenüber den Randstaaten im Osten. Eine Außenpolitik der Wunschträume, der Schwäche und der Selbstverzwergung, die deutsche Interessen konsequent missachtet.

Taiwan ist eine echte Demokratie und Deutschlands fünftwichtigster Handelspartner in Asien. Natürlich werden deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete jederzeit nach Taiwan reisen ohne vorher in Peking um Erlaubnis zu bitten. Wer deutsche Mandatsträger einschüchtern oder außenpolitisch bevormunden will, wird auf entschiedenen Widerstand stoßen. Die ritualisierte Empörung der Kommunisten in Peking ist politisch genauso bedeutungslos wie die Peking-Pilgerfahrten deutscher Haltungspolitiker.

Besonders bemerkenswert: Taiwan steigt wieder in die Kernkraft ein, während Deutschland weiterhin seine industrielle Basis mutwillig demontiert.

China führt längst einen beinharten Wirtschaftskrieg gegen die alten Industrieländer bei Stahl, Chemie, Maschinenbau, KI, Robotik, E-Mobilität und Rohstoffen. Europa droht zum abhängigen Juniorpartner zu werden. Auch durch die blinde Gier deutscher Vorstandsetagen.

Höchste Zeit für eine ökonomische Gegenoffensive und eine Allianz der Demokratien gegen Pekings Dominanzpolitik.

[U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong & Macau @USAinHKMacau]

Statement by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the 37th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square: https://t.co/8Y65Tl32eA

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

The US consulate in Hong Kong displayed commemorative candles in its windows on the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown on Thursday, while other diplomatic missions paid tribute with social media posts.

🔗 In full: https://t.co/uwtxha43Rn

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

Hong Kong police are maintaining a heavy presence at and around Victoria Park, where Tiananmen vigils were once held, on Thursday, the 37th anniversary of the bloody crackdown.

Plainclothes police set up a roadblock at the intersection of East Point Road and Great George Road on Thursday afternoon. Police officers, both plainclothes and uniformed, can be seen patrolling Causeway Bay and the entrance to the park.

For the fourth consecutive year, a patriotic food carnival is being held in Victoria Park.

Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.

[Kevin Yam 任建峰 @kevinkfyam]

The Hong Kong Government just announced that it is following Singapore’s and Dubai’s lead by setting up its own International Commercial Court. Some preliminary observations:

1. This move is an attempt to deal with a number of problems facing the HK courts:

(a) The significant fall in the number of foreign judges on the HK Court of Final Appeal due to the post-2020 political crackdown is having an impact on the willingness of eminent jurists to sit on that Court. And while a few have stayed, in particular a number of Australians, the perception (which is unfair to Australian judges, but still) is that the HKCFA losing most of its British contingent means its commercial prowess has been weakened. This problem has been compounded by the fact that, at lower court levels, Hong Kong High Court’s judges (both first instance and first level of appeal) have been perceived as having poorer quality overall on the commercial cases front, compared with Singapore court judges and various local and regional arbitral centres’ panels of international arbitrators.

(b) However, as former Australian Chief Justice Robert French said when he resigned from the HKCFA, he could envisage foreign judges having an important role in any HKICC. One can see (NB: this is my point, not French’s) an argument where sitting on the HKICC is not seen as constituting an endorsement of HK’s increasingly repressive system overall, but is instead a sign of needing to ensure that international investors are protected in a system that is increasingly seen as less reliable on the rule of law front.

(c) The HKHC has been suffering from a lack of “business”, with new writs each year being well below pre-2020 crackdown days. The Commercial List of the HKHC has been as good as dead for a number of years now.

(d) Not all of it is due to the crackdown, however. HKHC has been losing to HK International Arbitration Centre, because a lot of China disputes parties like saving on the cost on HK solicitors by getting their PRC lawyers to instruct HK barristers directly for HKIAC arbitrations.

(e) HKHC also lost out to Singapore (for more complex disputes) and Chinese (for less complex disputes) courts and arbitral centres, after years of complaints about the exorbitant costs and slow progress of HKHC litigation have not been addresssed due to local legal profession vested interests.

2. In short, therefore, the decision to create a HKICC is not a sign of HK’s prowess, but rather an attempt to deal with HK judicial system’s waning reputation for commercial disputes. It is a move from a position of weakness - but better that they try and address weaknesses than not at all.

3. Will it work? Much will depend on (i) what rules and practice directions they implement for the HKICC; and (ii) what calibre of judges they can attract to sit on the court. Note, however, that HK itself does not seem too optimistic: they are only devoting one floor of the HKHC building (ie 2-3 courtrooms) to the HKICC!

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

Beyond Differences - His Holiness the Dalai Lama explains why he sees every person simply as another human being—beyond nationality, religion, or status. Reflecting on how divisions create conflict, His Holiness reminds us that our shared humanity is the foundation for peace, compassion, and a happier world. Video originally recorded on November 11, 2014.

[Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 @benedictrogers]

So @YvetteCooperMP: if you go to #China in early June, please raise all the human rights issues and individual cases which 19 NGOs asked @Keir_Starmer to raise in his visit in January, set out in our letter here:
https://t.co/CydJKCGiHH

And in particular, make it a priority to #FreeJimmyLai

[Frances Hui 許穎婷 @frances_hui]

#HongKong’s new national security rules now allow authorities to demand access to phones, laptops, and passwords. 28 organizations are calling on the US @StateDept @USTreasury @CommerceGov to update its Hong Kong Business Advisory to warn of these escalating risks.

[Priti Patel MP @pritipatel]

Keir Starmer isn’t leading, he’s dithering.

Nine months in and still no defence investment plan. At a time of global insecurity, Britain needs decisions not delay.

Our allies in the gulf expected leadership, instead they got Keir Starmer.

[Tom Grundy @tomgrundy]

BREAKING: A relentless activist, who embodied the idea of "fight to the end," Koo Sze-yiu has died aged 80... https://t.co/myUHEFKVzL Photos: AFP + Me/HKFP.

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

Is it true that "Taiwan has been a part of China since ancient times", as Beijing often claims?

No, not at all.

Here are some inconvenient facts which most people don't know. I invite the swarm of CCP trolls to try to unpick them.

✅ FACT: Before 1624, Taiwan was inhabited by indigenous Malay-Austronesian populations with no official Chinese administrative presence.

✅ FACT: The Dutch established formal administrative control over Taiwan in 1624, which was recognised by Ming Dynasty representatives as being "beyond [Chinese] territory." The Dutch found no evidence of Chinese administrative control.

✅ FACT: In 1662, the Ming loyalist Koxinga expelled the Dutch after himself being expelled from the mainland. He founded an independent kingdom, seeking to reestablish Ming rule. But the Ming Dynasty itself had already collapsed. This was not rule by "China".

✅ FACT: From 1683 to 1887, Taiwan was managed as a province of Fujien; but Emperor Kangxi considered Taiwan beyond his domain. Indeed, he said as much: ‘Taiwan is outside our empire and of no great consequence.’ There were popular revolts throughout this period.

✅ FACT: Taiwan was formally administered as a province of China for eight years, from 1887 until it was ceded to Japan in 1895. This is the only such period. Shorter than the Dutch.

✅ FACT: Following the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Qing Empire ceded Taiwan to Japan "in perpetuity".

✅ FACT: Local leaders briefly declared an independent Formosa Republic in 1895 to resist Japanese rule, but the Japanese shut this down within five months.

✅ FACT: Between 1926 and 1942, both the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT) supported independence for Taiwan, viewing it similarly to Korea (as an essential part of an anti-Japanese military strategy).

✅ FACT: The CCP changed its mind. After WW2, the party coalesced around an effort to reclaim "lost territories". In 1943 Cairo and 1945 Potsdam declarations were issued which, while not formal treaties, maintained that "all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa (Taiwan), and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China". The 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty left Taiwan’s legal status "undetermined."

✅ FACT: The People's Republic of China (established 1949) has never, in any capacity, exercised control over Taiwan.

As to the territorial claim of what constitutes "China", worthy of note is the highly variable claims to territory (not to mention autonomy and governance structures) over even the past 150 years. See below.

[Lord (David) Alton @DavidAltonHL]

Good Friday 2026 - Chinese Christians persecuted by the CCP, paying a heavy price for their faith- along with Uyghur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists and Falun Gong practitioners.

[Rick Scott @SenRickScott]

COMMUNIST CHINA wrongfully arrested my good friend Jimmy Lai and are trying to lock him away for LIFE.

Jimmy did NOTHING WRONG. His only “crime” was refusing to be silent while the CCP robbed the people of Hong Kong of their rights.

@POTUS and I are watching, and we won’t give up until he’s FREE.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

HK police can now demand phone passwords under new national security rules https://t.co/OD7kqtSGGI

[🇺🇦 Alejancä @alejanchan]

@Keir_Starmer Clearly the @POTUS says otherwise. Such a shame the UK claimed to be America’s most trusted ally.

[Ambassador Mike Waltz @USAmbUN]

This is a moment in history that requires moral clarity and @POTUS has met that moment. Watch my remarks at the UN Security Council:

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Thank you to Japan – our great supporter and a true leader in protecting life, both in its region and globally. From the very first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Japan has stood with Ukraine and provided meaningful support to our people.

It was a pleasure to speak with the Prime Minister @takaichi_sanae after her appointment. We highly value our partnership and look forward to welcoming the Prime Minister to Ukraine at a convenient time.