2020: China takes Hong Kong. The West does nothing.
2021: The Taliban are handed Afghanistan by the West.
2022: Russia takes Ukraine.
The West is in retreat.
And everyone with half a brain knows that Taiwan is next on the menu.
🧵Today we are launching an emoji for the #MilkTeaAlliance, an online solidarity alliance first started in April 2020 as a Twitter meme which has grown into a global pro-democracy movement led by activists and concerned citizens in 🇭🇰🇹🇭🇹🇼🇲🇲 and around the world.
😭 Lots of friends arrested today in #HK
Remember the international community (esp the UK) has legal obligations to prevent this from happening.
If we get another hand-wringing 5-eyes statement about “serious concern” I swear....
Bravo! Now @Twitter can be sued for suspending Twitter accounts for speeches it doesn't like. What I want the Senate Judiciary Committee to ask Twitter Jack Dorsey under oath is who authorized suspending those Twitter accounts because they've tweeted NYP Bidens' #PayToPlay story.
Takes a particular sort of scum to brutalise a pregnant woman.
Since July last 2019, the @hkpoliceforce have shown again and again that pregnancy is no defence against their disproportionate brutalising of democracy campaigners.
Really hope she is ok.
Extremely disturbing news from #HongKong - just been announced that under the new law there can be:
- search without warrant
- prevention of 'suspects' leaving HK
- freezing of assets
- communication interception
hhttps://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202007/06/P2020070600748.htm
English version of the law - the most absurd piece of authoritarian overreach I can remember. And surely the suicide note of Xi Jinping's administration. https://t.co/HtMsVN8jgs
Today, I reported to Congress that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China, given facts on the ground. The United States stands with the people of Hong Kong.
The United States condemns the PRC proposal to impose national security legislation on Hong Kong and strongly urges Beijing to reconsider. We stand with the people of Hong Kong.
HKers - today your struggle enters a new phase.
You are on the frontline, and it’s going to feel more like it.
Remember that so many around the world stand with you. And that it is always darkest before the dawn.
#NeverGiveUp
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