On this day 7 years ago, >1 million marched in #HongKong against a gov't plan to allow extradition to China, setting off mass protests that lasted 8mo--one of the largest, longest protest movements in modern history. The regime's response: severe repression that's still ongoing.
One day after the HK gov't formally introduced a "national security" amendment granting the Chief Executive authority to certify any crime as "endangering national security," the CE today approved it & it was immediately gazetted, thus entering into force.
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In a university political ideology class on the Chinese mainland, a professor was criticizing the failures of China’s education system. He declared: “The biggest failure of Chinese education is that it has produced people with Chinese faces, who eat Chinese rice, but then turn around and smash Chinese bowls.”
This idiom basically means: It creates citizens who look and sound Chinese, benefit from China’s resources and opportunities — but ultimately betray or undermine their own country.
Suddenly, a student in the back shouted: “I am from the Republic of China!”
(The Republic of China is the official name of Taiwan. In mainland China, publicly identifying with Taiwan as a separate legitimate Chinese government is extremely taboo and often treated as a direct challenge to the Communist Party’s claim that Taiwan is part of the People’s Republic of China.)
The professor immediately exploded in rage. He announced on the spot that the student’s final exam eligibility was revoked, with no chance to retake it, and kicked him out of the classroom to “distance himself from the association.”