Catrina Ko🦁🇺🇦🇹🇼🇭🇰

International communicator writing/speaking/translating/sciencing fiercely for #humanrights + #democracy. RTs = 💎; (mis)takes = mine. #HongKong #WomanInSTEM

[Catrina Ko🦁🇺🇦🇹🇼🇭🇰 @dr_CatKo]

Because the only way to end that fear is to walk out on Communist China. You’re not caged birds. Live like the free nations that you are; live up to what your constitutions endow you with; live the privileges that many others are denied; live like these are worth their sacrifice.

[Samuel Bickett @SamuelBickett]

Utter nonsense.

If ending the Hong Kong national emergency were just "streamlining," the Administration would have simply reissued sanctions against the remaining nine officials using the HKAA and HKHRDA as the basis. And they wouldn't have moved the other 39 off the SDN list and onto a list with fewer restrictions.

Stop lying, @USTreasury, and own up to the deal you made with China.

[Tom Grundy @tomgrundy]

A woman is escorted away from 'Have a Nice Stay' independent bookstore by Hong Kong police on July 15, 2026. Her t-shirt reads: "I am staff of a bookstore." Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.

Full story: https://t.co/Y5KX2oNUd2

[Michael Sobolik @michaelsobolik]

We are solving technical problems for the Chinese Communist Party that it cannot solve itself.

Huawei can’t make enough chips to meet domestic demand, and the chips they can make aren’t as good as U.S. chips.

By licensing Nvidia chips, Washington is equipping the People’s Liberation Army. That’s a choice we may come to deeply regret.

[Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 @benedictrogers]

The vindictiveness and outrageous injustice of the Chinese Communist Party and their #HongKong puppets against good, bright, brave, honest, remarkable people like Joshua Wong seemingly knows no bounds.

It's time to #FreeJoshuaWong

Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong set for September sentencing in second national security case https://t.co/rXfnAGvzs7

[The Free Press @TheFP]

The victories of anti-Israel democratic socialists aren’t a break from Democratic politics. They’re the culmination of a 40-year ideological shift that party leaders tolerated—and often encouraged.

[Tom Grundy @tomgrundy]

1/ #HongKong national security police have arrested a former pro-democracy district councillor and raided her Sham Shui Po bookstore for alleged sedition, according to local media reports.

In full: https://t.co/BXVBZkxwQh Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.

[Taiwan News @TaiwanNewsEN]

EVA Air launches Taiwan's 1st nonstop flights to Washington
https://t.co/Mr57zlGOaq

[Terry Glavin 格立文 @TerryGlavin]

How about "Beijing should be banned from buying private schools" period.

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

❗️BREAKING: sentences handed down in 🇨🇳 interference (HKETO) case:

Bill Yuen 8 years and Peter Wai 10 years in jail (Wai’s sentence includes misconduct in public office).

Almost in tears with relief, on behalf of so many who live under threat of intimidation from Beijing. This is a landmark moment for the UK. For years, dissidents and experts have warned that Beijing’s interference operations are running amok in Britain. Today, the courts have drawn a hard line: run hostile intelligence operations against people on British soil, you’re not going home to a heroic welcome, you're going to a UK prison cell.

The Chinese have a saying 不作不死 (no doing, no dying). In crude English: FAFO. Beyond happy that this is the future Beijing’s proxies can look forward to if they behave in this way, thanks to the National Security Act.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Kaja Kallas:

❗️"We have also now verified reports that the Chinese military has been training Russian military personnel to fight in Ukraine. We are carefully assessing the implications."

[Tom Grundy @tomgrundy]

BREAKING: #HongKong’s top court has rejected an appeal by a former student leader against a law which criminalises calls to boycott local elections by casting a blank vote.
https://t.co/2IDgSRpS5X

Although casting a blank ballot or not voting is legal, encouraging others to do either remains unlawful.

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

This is huge.

@kajakallas says **China has been training Russian soldiers for war in Ukraine.***

The axis in action. Beijing must be wondering what they have to do for us to see them for the obvious adversary that they are.

[Peter Mattis @PLMattis]

Min Zin went to the PRC because he was invited. He was arrested for engaging in "espionage activities." He was not a spy, and as a US citizen obviously without access to classified PRC info. So, basically, for Beijing, espionage is "analysis we don't like" wherever it is done. Min Zin thought it was important to engage, and this is what it got him: a wrongful detention that @StateDept won't declare.

"Research is Not a Crime" https://t.co/olcw5sCkJN

[Peter Mattis @PLMattis]

This is really quite striking. The CCP has long said that they would cooperate with Triads as long as they were "patriotic," i.e. willing to support the party's efforts when called upon. The CCP has never really had a problem with criminality. The Comintern reported that the CCP sold opium to Chinese people from Yan'an to fund itself. Plus ça change...

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

🇨🇳 mega-embassy latest:

Beijing refuses to participate in judicial review, showing “contempt” for the UK’s legal processes.

[Catrina Ko🦁🇺🇦🇹🇼🇭🇰 @dr_CatKo]

@finnlau_cd @ukhomeoffice At long last!

[Finn Lau 劉祖廸 @finnlau_cd]

9 June marks the 7th anniversary of the 2019 Hong Kong movement.

By coincidence, I finally received my @ukhomeoffice approval letter for British citizenship today, after a 12-month ordeal.

This brings some peace of mind amid Beijing’s ongoing transnational …/

[Yalkun Uluyol @YalkunUluyol]

Photos from Tiananmen protests in 1989 continue to inspire hundreds and thousands of people. Read @amyhawk_'s latest for the Guardian: "‘Every year I get new pictures’: the fight to preserve the memory of Tiananmen"

Also adding one of my favorites.

https://t.co/n3urxq7t5E

[Terry Glavin 格立文 @TerryGlavin]

Four essays, any one of which would have featured prominently yesterday in a healthier media landscape, anywhere or everywhere across Canada. Some samizdat in today’s Real Story special edition.
https://t.co/gF1Nmy5OYQ

[Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee]

How young Chinese are learning the truth about Tiananmen Square, despite censorship.

Important read from @huiiiiiyee (gift link):

https://t.co/94WC3qzQyc