haritho

All are bananas, only skin differs

[YTSL @FY4Chan]

The SCMP front page on June 10th, 2019. Really a different time, and SCMP.

[Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal]

Folks. Have been getting DMs from accounts - including @kbssidhu1961 about voting for you in some influencer contest. Almost clicked- fortunately held back. Please do not click !!!

[Bethany 貝書穎 @BethanyAllenEbr]

I increasingly find that my primary role in the "China influence" space these days is to debunk a lot of very, very poor quality "China influence" research reports that have been coming out.

I don't think it would be an overreach to call this slate of reports "China influence slop." But such a term is too kind, because it fails to indicate that these reports are primarily motivated by the desire to delegitimize grassroots American organizating by attempting to associate them with "hostile foreign forces" — a tactic widely used by the CCP to delegitimize grassroots Chinese civil society whenever it finds such movements inconvenient.

Let me start with a couple recent ones:
— The reports from Bitcoin Policy Institute and Power the Future which have led House reps to call for an investigation into anti-data center organizing
— And this latest one about how China is supposedly bankrolling climate activism at the University of California system and thereby acting to "shape California’s climate and energy policies."

I can demonstrate, very easily, that these reports are
1) exceedingly poor quality as China influence reports go

and

2) primarily and overwhelmingly motivated not by a desire to uncover China's influence (and thus to preserve the integrity of US civil society), but rather to delegitimize what are very obviously organic US movements (and thus to compromise the integrity of US civil society)

Reports like these represent an anti-democratic abuse of the concept of China influence research, which denies agency to real Americans.

These reports, given both their methods and their political goal, are also a form of disinformation and propaganda, very similar to how China paints Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters as stooges of America.

And finally, these reports make a mockery of actual, high-quality China influence research.

This must stop now — and journalists reporting on this style of report should do so with the highest degree of journalistic professionalism and scrutiny.

[Ashish Joshi @bismil_prasad]

India has also become a Land of Hypocrites .
Do listen !
What is the rationale behind holding a badminton tournament in London when the Govt expected citizens to follow austerity measures?

[Poonam Agarwal @poonamjourno]

‘Tired of fighting alone’: Doctor, who campaigned against fake ORS, goes off Instagram
https://t.co/ETT0AFIJIy

[Joel Chan @kjoules]

Hong Kong’s new subsidiary legislation, which came into effect on Tuesday, will allow the Chief Executive to classify criminal cases as national security cases, even if the offenses occurred before the 2020 National Security Law was enacted

https://t.co/NmKefmclmq

[haritho @haritho]

@CindyWan19 @kitakitsune_sp So was WTO. There is a pattern

[きたきつね☂ @kitakitsune_sp]

香港「一国二制度」どうなった？　崩れた国際的な約束事 - 日本経済新聞 https://t.co/S63pI30zk1

[haritho @haritho]

Anyone who goes to protest with a mobile phone taping their action is doing it just fot social media.

[BrownMan 🦹🏽 ബ്രൗൺമാൻ @v_brownman]

ഒരു അധ്യാപികയെ അതായത് ഒരു സ്ത്രീയെ, നിയമപ്രകാരം യൂണിഫോം ധരിച്ചു വരാനും , സ്കൂൾ ദിവസങ്ങളിൽ ഹാജരാകാനും സാധിക്കാത്ത ഒരു കൂട്ടം വിദ്യാർത്ഥികൾക്ക് പ്രാവേശനം കൊടുത്തില്ല എന്ന പേരിൽ ഭരണഘടനാ ഉറപ്പുനൽകുന്ന സഞ്ചാരസ്വാതന്ത്ര്യം നിഷേധിച്ചു മുറിയിൽ തടഞ്ഞുവെച്ചു, അതിനു ശേഷം കൊറേ പുരുഷന്മാർ വട്ടം കൂടി നിന്ന് മാനസികമായി പീഡിപ്പിക്കുന്നതിന്റെ ദൃശ്യം .

ഈ നാട്ടിലെ ഏതെങ്കിലും സാംസ്‌കാരിക നായകളോ, വട്ട പൊട്ടു ഫെമിനിചികളോ ഏതെങ്കിലും വനിതാ ജനപ്രധിനിതികളോ, മന്ത്രിമാരോ പ്രതികരിച്ചോ ?

അത് പോട്ടെ , ഓർത്തഡോൿസ് സഭയുടെ കീഴിലുള്ള സ്കൂളിൽ നടന്ന ഈ മൗലിവകാശ ലംഘനത്തെ സഭ അപലപിച്ചോ ?

വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ മന്ത്രി അപലപിച്ചോ ?

എന്തിനു ടീച്ചർ ഭാഗമായിട്ടുള്ള യൂണിയനുകൾ എതിർത്തോ ?

ഇല്ല!!!!!

ഇതാണ് പൊളിറ്റിക്കൽ ഇസ്ലാമിന് ഈ നാട്ടിൽ കിട്ടുന്ന പ്രോത്സാഹനം.

നിങ്ങൾ ധൈര്യസമേതം എതിർത്താൽ നിങ്ങളെ അവർ ഇത്പോലെ ഒറ്റപെടുത്തും . ആരും ഉണ്ടാകില്ല നിങ്ങളുടെ കൂടെ .

ആകെ കുറച്ചു വർഗീയ ഫാസിസിസ്റ് ജനാധിപത്യ മതേതരവിരുദ്ധ സംഘികൾ മാത്രം കാണും.😇

[Bangkok Post @BangkokPostNews]

A Thai consumer watchdog has launched civil lawsuits against Meta Platforms, Line Corporation, Apple and local banks, accusing them of allowing scammers to exploit their systems to defraud Thai consumers, resulting in losses exceeding 230 million baht.

Listen to the story or get the full story in the 1st comment.

[haritho @haritho]

Hong Kong gets a new colonial governor

[euronews @euronews]

Hong Kong has proposed legislation allowing its leader to designate certain criminal acts as national security offences.

Critics say the move further weakens civil liberties following years of tightening security laws.

[香港/中國新聞-小豬 @hk2019freehk]

2019年反送中運動，蒙面警察的暴行

[SouthAsia Solidarity @SAsiaSolidarity]

#Cockroaches in London!
The Chief Justice of India is currently in London. At his first public appearance (Univ of London) he faced a question on hostility to dissent in India & his remarks describing Indian youth, journos & RTI activists as cockroaches & parasites. #CJP #NEET

[James Joseph @Pro_Bharati]

High BP & Sugar? Turn to green jackfruit , says independent clinical study by Kerala Medical College.
@xpresskerala
Can Keralam now show how to use its abundant resource of Jackfruits to reverse trend on Diabetes, BP & Triglycerides #NFHS6
@ShashiTharoor @vdsatheesan @kris_sg

[Reuters @Reuters]

Explainer: An Indian gold firm allegedly inflated revenue by $159 billion using its Swiss unit https://t.co/UjOVZVqyel https://t.co/UjOVZVqyel

[Hong Kong Watch @hk_watch]

🚨 Police stopped and searched two performance artists in Causeway Bay: one carrying a golden question mark balloon, another a 6.4-metre red string.

Before the NSL, #HongKong was the one place under 🇨🇳’s administration where you could publicly commemorate #JuneFourth. Now, the police crush the slightest hint of dissent.

https://t.co/ZGsRGk8d6c

[Kris Cheng @krislc]

This Tiananmen Massacre commemoration video was removed by Weibo within minutes

[Byron Wan @Byron_Wan]

June 4: this woman was arrested for gesturing 6 and 4 in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.

[Byron Wan @Byron_Wan]

A courageous young man who commemorated June 4 by blindfolding himself was immediately surrounded by cops and taken away in a police car…

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Hong Kong was long the main place where large-scale, open remembrance of the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989 was possible. It drew hundreds of thousands.

In mainland China, it is snuffed out to a degree that is shocking.

Steadily, this has been eroded by the authorities.

In 2020, under the premise of covid19 restrictions, there was a clamp down. Many defied it; arrests followed for unlawful assembly. This coincided with Beijing imposing the National Security Law (NSL) in June 2020, which broadly targeted secession, subversion.

In 2021, Tiananmen memorials, museums, and statues (like the "Pillar of Shame") were removed from universities.

Arrests and detentions continued throughout the years for the mere crime of bringing flowers, wearing black clothing, or even just social media posts in commemoration of the Tiananmen massacre.

Just a few weeks ago, the trial of the former organizers of the yearly Tiananmen vigil concluded. They await the verdict, which is almost certain to be a jail sentence.

This year, the authorities have banned family and relatives of the victims from visiting their graves in Beijing.

The ruthless efforts of intensifying censorship by the CCP has swallowed the truth in the land where it happened and now, Hong Kong which was the keeper of its memory.

But this role is no longer, even if it still exists in the hearts and minds of Hong Kongers.

To those of us overseas, this is a duty. We are the keepers of a memory the powerful wish to bury. In our living rooms, across time zones, through late-night conversations and quiet tears, we hold the history to which there are no more monuments, to which there are blank pages in the history books.

We remember the students with their hunger strikes and hopeful banners. We remember the ordinary citizens who stood beside them. We remember Tank Man. We remember the mothers who lost children and were told their grief was unpatriotic.

We remember because forgetting would betray not just history, but the very humanity we share. We honor the courage of those who stood in the square and the quiet strength of those who still mourn in private. We keep alive the dream that was crushed but never fully extinguished.

I hope those of us overseas will post the images, share the news and tell the stories. In this act of fidelity, we become a bridge between what was lost and what may yet be reclaimed.

The CCP may control the narrative within its borders, and now increasingly, well beyond them, but we in the West with an open information ecosystem have a duty to not let this memory die.

As long as we remember, they have not won.

June 4th, 2026
37th Anniversary