Kevin Lau - - - - - - - -

Media guy in Hong Kong

[Kevin Lau - - - - - - - - @tofufever]

That thing #June4

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Bill Ackman is part of the reason we're dealing with this nonsense. At this point, the only thing he should do is apologize for helping elect Trump and then be very quiet.

[Xinqi Su 蘇昕琪 @XinqiSu]

#NOW Selina Cheng @selina_cheng was fired this morning by @WSJ , weeks after she refused to withdraw from her newly-elected chairmanship and renewed ex-com membership of @HKJA_Official despite demands from the Journal’s senior editors and her supervisor in the UK.

[Timothy McLaughlin @TMclaughlin3]

That UCLA situation certainly had a 7.21 feel to it.

[Isaac Stone Fish @isaacstonefish]

Whenever anyone asks for proof that Beijing is directly supporting Russia's military invasion of Ukraine, show them this excellent New York Times article that demonstrates how a state-owned Chinese firm shipped powder for AT LEAST 80 MILLION ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION.
https://t.co/VpOSzIOA3Z

[Tom Grundy @tomgrundy]

Hong Kong plays wrong UK anthem.

Will await nationwide outrage across Britain, gov't statements, an investigation, calls for arrests, demands for apologies.

[Melissa Chan @melissakchan]

Just a reminder that TikTok parent company ByteDance literally pulled information and spied on reporters from The Financial Times and BuzzFeed, so anyone who paints TikTok as this blameless pawn that got caught up in US-China great power competition is gaslighting you.

[Tom Grundy @tomgrundy]

China outright bans TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Gmail, Spotify, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, YouTube, Snapchat, Quora, Slack, Netflix, Tumblr, Vimeo, NY Times, Guardian, Washington Post, Bloomberg, HKFP, the BBC, Reuters, TIME, NBC, CBC, ABC. Explain it!

[China Media Project @cnmediaproject]

Using "so-called" is a rhetorical tactic by PRC state media and the party-state to belittle ideas, concepts, or assertions that are at odds with the ideological values or positions of the CCP.

Read the latest CMP Dictionary entry on "so-called" (所谓的).
https://t.co/8audNp73al

[China Media Project @cnmediaproject]

Today we celebrate that rare creature: the People's Daily front page without any headline mentions of Xi Jinping.

[Timothy McLaughlin @TMclaughlin3]

“The wheels came off in 2019-20 when, under Carrie Lam, the Hong Kong leadership made the mistake of proposing an extradition arrangement with China…”

This is the correct history of ‘19. People should always remember who started it and who could have ended it but didn’t.

[WenHao @ThisIsWenhao]

An E-book titled "The Secret History of Tsai Ing-wen" (蔡英文秘史) are being spread by bots in the Chinese language social media circle. The book, mixing facts with political rumors, portrays the Taiwan President as a morally corrupt and promiscuous race traitor. 1/

[Isaac Stone Fish @isaacstonefish]

The phrase "friend of China" doesn't mean what you think it means. It's an official Party term that refers to a foreigner aligned with the Party. That's why Kissinger is an "old friend." It doesn't mean he's loved by or friendly to the people of China, but that he's a friend of the Communist Party of China. Big difference.

[Martin Sebena @MartinSebena]

SCMP published an article calling for truce in Ukraine, supposedly written by Peter Sojka of the Slovak Academy Sciences.

No such person seems to exist. A fake persona?

https://t.co/M2WFIzKFj1

[Isobel Yeung @IsobelYeung]

We’ve been investigating how UK institutions are influenced by the Chinese government.

This includes the University of Nottingham, where I used to study. Shocked to discover that my department was closed down, due to pressure from the Chinese embassy...

https://t.co/JAYZceZMRL

[Timothy McLaughlin @TMclaughlin3]

What role did COVID-19 play in stopping the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests? An interesting question and one that could do with far more reporting.

Prosecutors in the NSL47 trial, which begins final arguments today, give a hint. (1/2)

[Yaling Jiang @yaling_jiang]

The most well-rounded *analysis* I’ve seen about Chinese social mentality in terms of aspiration and state-of-being:

1. ‘Run’ 润: emigrate
2. ‘Involution’ 卷: work harder
3. Lie flat 躺: no explanation needed
4. ‘Chives’ 韭: exploited

Although I also want to add a 5th one: 苟 drift along, right in the middle
(same pronunciation as 🐶 gǒu in Chinese, derived from 苟且偷生, see common usage below)

[Aaron Busch @tripperhead]

🇭🇰🧑‍⚖️

The 'King of Judicial Reviews' Kwok Chuek-kin is back!

Kwok is filing a judicial review over the nomination system of District Council elections.

He argues Basic Law Art. 26 says "residents have the right to stand for election in accordance with law."

(📸: @mingpaocom)

[Desmond Shum @DesmondShum]

Influx of mainlanders can’t possibly replace exodus of Hong Kongers. A city is identified by its unique physical, cultural and social characteristics. This new influx is replacing Cantonese w their putonghua (“mandarin speaking”), sichuan food replacing Cantonese cuisine, speaking aloud vs discrete talking, sense of beauty (mainlanders like crew cut for men and heavier makeups for ladies), different apps to guide choices (mainlanders use WeChat / QQ vs WhatsApp, Dianping vs Openrice, WeChat Pay vs Payme), HK judicial system is cloning mainland preponderance of executive power (no separation of powers). The list goes on and is getting longer and longer. We Hong Kongers know we are losing our city https://t.co/endONMcIgH

[Galileo Cheng @galileocheng]

“Hong Kong offers a harsh lesson: that regimes can easily get away with crushing people’s aspirations and dismantling institutions, as long as it is done in a way that is palatable. Few in the international community will be willing – or able – to do anything.”