Kris Cheng

London-based Hong Kong journalist covering UK/EU/US-China relations, Diplomacy, Greater China stories. Reports in @hkfp @VOANews @nikkeiasia

[Kris Cheng @krislc]

UK's ITN posted this video on YouTube two weeks ago: After the Tiananmen Square Massacre (1989) | Secretly Filmed News Rushes Days after Mass Deaths

https://t.co/QKM7cJxvLj

[Kris Cheng @krislc]

This Tiananmen Massacre commemoration video was removed by Weibo within minutes

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

NEW: MI5 and Five Eyes partner agencies have just issued what they say is an unprecedented joint warning about attempts by Chinese spies to use LinkedIn to recruit Western assets

[Kris Cheng @krislc]

New: Sentencing of HKETO spy case has moved from tomorrow to June 18 at Old Bailey, Hong Kong diaspora news outlets Pulse HK and Green Bean reported.

Bill Yuen (L), office manager of London HKETO accused of being one of the ringleaders, just spent his 66th birthday in prison.

[Kris Cheng @krislc]

@MsMelChen His second asylum interview was January 2022, this has been an issue for many years. I interviewed him in June 2023, fortunately he finally got his refugee status approved two days after the report was published — quite a coincidence (I think it was coincidence)

[Kris Cheng @krislc]

This is not an isolated case at all.

When I interviewed several Hong Kong asylum seekers 3 years ago, one said he didn’t need an interpreter for his asylum interview, but he was given one, who has opposite political views and mistranslated his answers.

https://t.co/ThcjLy5LRi

[Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @Yaqiu]

A Chinese dissident’s worst nightmare: You escape China, only to find the CCP still making your life hell — and the interpreter for the police in your new country, the person who is supposed to help you, turns out to be a CCP shill. https://t.co/i9YJv5JrC4

[Lucy Fisher @LOS_Fisher]

EXCL: A maker of electronic parts used in UK and other European biometric passports is owned by an investor group led by two Chinese companies that are on a US export restrictions list

w/ Rachel Rees

https://t.co/zPuGE4ex77

[Kanis Leung @kanis_leung]

Hong Kong journalist Ronson Chan began serving a five-day prison sentence after losing an appeal against his conviction for obstructing a police officer in a case that sparked concerns about the city’s declining press freedom.
https://t.co/tRvqSJxtqi

[Sheena Chestnut Greitens @SheenaGreitens]

Sharing a new paper on an understudied tool used by China's Ministry of Public Security to expand its global reach: formal law enforcement & security cooperation agreements. China has signed at least 205 of these since 2006: 170 bilateral, 35 multilateral. 1/n

[Samuel Bickett @SamuelBickett]

In an internal memo today, Hong Kong Justice Secretary Paul Lam threatened to root out and prosecute DoJ staff who disclosed DPP Anthony Chau's abuses of office and affair. It seems there will be no investigation of Chau--just a witch hunt against whistleblowers.

[Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng]

When the Assad regime crumbled and I went to Syria for the first time, I immediately noticed some Uyghur fighters among the rebels. I wanted to know more.
https://t.co/X9gSZgrftc

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: The Telegraph can reveal a secret Chinese surveillance platform used to track foreigners, journalists and individuals deemed “of interest” to the state

@sophia_yan explains how the platform's records label her as "trackable" ⤵️
https://t.co/TzrG4Jh1DM

[Kris Cheng @krislc]

@eliotcxchen @thewirechina Congrats!

[Kris Cheng @krislc]

Just in: Sentencing for Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office spy case defendants Bill Yuen and Peter Wai set on June 4.

What a coincidence -- June 4 is the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing in 1989.

[Kris Cheng @krislc]

In Parliament, @DanJarvisMBE said Foreign Secretary will make clear to Hong Kong Chief Executive that shadow policing is not acceptable in the UK; Foreign Office has made clear that employment of Bill Yuen at HKETO London - convicted by jury - "must be terminated immediately."

[Kris Cheng @krislc]

Just in: Following HKETO spy case, security minister Dan Jarvis issued a video to a HK diaspora media in the UK, speaking directly to the community: "Be alert, but not afraid"

"The safety and security of Hongkongers in the UK is of the utmost importance"

https://t.co/acl7uR84gB

[Kris Cheng @krislc]

It’s ancient Chinese philosophy: a “white horse” is not a “horse”, as it’s just a subset, not the entire set. Senator Rubio, a subset, is not Secretary Rubio, another subset, or Marco Rubio, the entire set.

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

🥴 Asked if the fact that Rubio is sanctioned by China will affect his visit, spokesperson answers that Senate Rubio was being targeted by China’s sanctions, not Secretary Rubio.

Is Senate Rubio staying at home? 🙃

[Kris Cheng @krislc]

hmmm

[Reuters @Reuters]

Lin Heung Lau, a historic Hong Kong teahouse dating to the 1920s, hosted a 'dim sum rave' to attract Gen-Z diners, where around 300 partygoers danced under a disco ball while eating shrimp dumplings and siu mai as a DJ played electronic and Cantonese music

[Clement Ngu @clement_ngu]

Korea-born Joshua Kim from Reform has been elected to the Senedd. He secured the final seat in the multi-member constituency of Blaenau Gwent Caerphilly Rhymney with 7,985 votes. Kim is quite possibly the most senior elected Reform politician of East Asian heritage.