Seven years ago, the people of #HongKong showed the world their courage and resilience during the anti-extradition law protests. Today, as we mark the anniversary of the ‘612 incident’, we pay tribute to them and stand in solidarity with Hong Kongers worldwide in their ongoing fight for freedom.
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"Embrace the CCP. Taiwan will become the next Hong Kong."
At a June 8 Asia Society event in New York, a mainland Chinese dissident confronted KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun live during Q&A — asking why, after her April Beijing trip to see Xi Jinping, she told Taiwanese that drones would "deliver bubble tea, not missiles."
The questioner didn't stop there: he pressed her on what Xi reportedly told Trump about a potential Taiwan invasion, then answered his own second question unprompted — "I'm from mainland China, so I know: Xi wants Taiwan because dictatorships cannot allow democracies to exist next to them."
Then came the line that stopped the room: "Embrace the CCP. Taiwan will become the next Hong Kong."
1/ 🚨 BREAKING: #HongKong authorities are moving to further expand the national security legal apparatus.
Under the new proposed rule, the Chief Executive can certify that a ordinary criminal case “involves national security” and turn it into a national security case.
A 28yo's been found guilty of "riot" in #HongKong on 31 Aug 2019. Originally acquitted in 2021 but prosecution appealed & in a retrial she was convicted today based on circumstantial evidence: dressed in black, wearing gas mask, carrying umbrella & hiking stick, present at scene.
This week, many rallies are being held around the world to mark the 7th anniversary of the start of the 2019 mass protests in #HongKong.
Some cities are participating in the global "umbrella relay": London, Leeds, Nottingham, Sheffield.
In #HongKong today it’s a crime to gesture the numbers 6 and 4, or to light a candle, or to sit in silence.
Because the ridiculous Hong Kong #CCP regime is so fearful of its own people, so paranoid, so fragile that it’s scared of a gesture or shadows https://t.co/eVrlKVwVR4
"Democracy. Freedom. Dignity."
Workers, students, and ordinary people wanted three very simple things in China in 1989.
In a June 4 speech outside the Chinese embassy in London, @thecfhk advocacy manager, @Chloe_chc_25, remembers the massacre that the Chinese Communist Party has spent decades trying to erase.
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