Ex-UK consulate staffer in Hong Kong, Simon Cheng, has been detained, tortured, now he has to cut ties with his family to protect them. All that pain, just for supporting democracy. https://t.co/12jw6TkYZL
Across Hong Kong, a tight-knit band of student reporters has been tweeting, livestreaming and sending updates from the front lines of the historic pro-democracy demonstrations https://t.co/pgEzVmcbjO via @saitomri
“Who says I can’t sell an ice cream cone and add a gas mask on the side?” Chung Yiu-wa, the co-owner of Sogno Gelato and a supporter of the Hong Kong protesters, told Laurie Wen https://t.co/48o98bK14v
Almost 2 million people in Hong Kong are estimated to have experienced symptoms of PTSD during months of social unrest in the city, research says https://t.co/YdgAM1bhrq
Taiwan largely wants to avoid becoming another Hong Kong, which could tip Saturday's election in favor of reelecting President Tsai Ing-wen, whose Democratic Progressive Party calls China the "enemy of democracy."
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The Hong Kong Schools Debate Federation told Apple Daily that 17 secondary schools had withdrawn from its debating contest over suspected pressure from the Education Bureau, which contacted schools to advise them not to involve students in sensitive topics https://t.co/7W1EODde3X
"Six months of protests in Hong Kong have only amplified the significance of Taiwan as an autonomous political entity holding out in the face of China’s authoritarianism." | @natashaskassam and @mcgregorrichard https://t.co/wSqzFdK4yC
"We want to have elections like this": scores of Hong Kong tourists have travelled to Taiwan this week to witness something denied to them at home -- universal suffrage
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Russia & China must not again veto the @UN resolution to maintain cross border humanitarian assistance in Syria. Over 3M people rely on cross border aid for food and life-saving medicine that will come to a halt at midnight unless the UN Security Council can come to an agreement.
Time to level the cyber battlefield. Active cyber defense shld be a part of the solution set.
#Iran#CyberSecurity#ACDC#China too https://t.co/O5Ln3fuu1s
President Trump:
Chinese companies like Huawei cooperate with the Chinese Communist Party.
So why are you allowing American businesses to work with them?
This is about our national security.
https://t.co/J7qUbm5lbG
One of the oldest & most prestigious medical journals, @TheLancet, published a paper on how HK police has breached international humanitarian norms in handling medical volunteers. Conduct of "Asia's finest" preserved for history #HongKongProstest https://t.co/ONDgG0PGpe