CHINA PLAYBOOK:
1. Your population gets plague from eating filthy, exotic animals
2. Cover-up plague
3. Let infected population travel the world infecting other nations
4. Watch as thousands of innocents die around planet
5. Sell them shit that does not work
6. Profit
7. Repeat
Just did this for @BBCWorld - @BorisJohnson@DominicRaab need to put pressure on Carrie Lam to appoint a mediator and come to the table.
#PolyU is their home and represents everything they are fighting for. Leave them alone.
#StandWithHongKong
TIME IS RUNNING OUT. #SOSHK Listen to urgent cry of protestors in #PolyU! Running out of food & medical supply, starving & injured protestors counting down to confront #hkpolice bullets with bare hands. Is the world going to witness bloody crackdown w/o stopping ruthless regime?
Many young activists who answered the call to support the occupation of Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University now need rescuing themselves, writes @dicklp https://t.co/R0YcV7NpTB
Doctors have a responsibility to speak out about the dire health impacts of climate change, an expert says, as bushfires burning across NSW create hazardous air pollution in Sydney. https://t.co/Dc01hGV7QN
NOT GOOD ENOUGH! @hkpoliceforce must unconditionally release all🇭🇰protesters arrested because of the anti-mask law. The entire Commissar Lam's Executive Council must be sanctioned for violating 🇭🇰ers' civil liberties by passing this unconstitutional law.
@iainmarlow@cliffordstott@business@BlakeSchmidt Indeed. Another example how they fuel the protests by stomping the back of a non-resistant, probably just for the sake of it
https://t.co/NnSjDjkZiw
“What we can see is a pattern of escalation whereby police tactics have functioned to radicalize the population,” @cliffordstott tells @business for our story: ‘Everyone Is Angry’: How police aggression fuels Hong Kong protests, by @BlakeSchmidt and I:
https://t.co/heKlCbEAEM
It's very hard to negotiate with leaderless movement in HK. It's also hard to negotiate with leaderless govt, with chief executive absent at crucial moments, a number two who doesn't know why people are angry & justice secretary promoting dispute resolution abroad while HK burns.
A photo of what I just mentioned. Clear violation of international standards on use of teargas. The cops were peaking their heads up & shooting so fast, they didn’t even see what they were shooting, right down on heads, most here don’t have helmets.