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Britain promised to protect Hongkongers from China. Why does it now seem ready to sacrifice us? | Nathan Law
Britain promised to protect Hongkongers from China. Why does it now seem ready to sacrifice us? | Nathan Law
Activists under threat from Beijing are facing strange difficulties with UK immigration. Our safety must not be traded for warmer relations with China, says pro-democracy activist Nathan Law
theguardian.com
The UK has failed HK people again and again and again. While BN(O) immigration has been granted on 'humanitarian' basis, it's on a temporary basis albeit ability to extend to ILR and citizenship. But it *is* temporary. So... were we ever part of UK territory or not?
ANDY BURNHAM YOU HAD ONE JOB
Kanis Leung@kanisleung.bsky.social · last wk.After spending more than five years in Hong Kong’s prison, former pro-democracy lawmaker Wu Chi-wai finally got to embrace his wife and son in London last week. But he could be sent back to the Chinese territory in days. His story: apnews.com/article/hong...
UPDATE: Wu said he was eventually allowed to enter, with authorities granting him a seven-day immigration bail. That means he will be removed from the U.K. on Wednesday, he said, cutting short family plans to spend months together. apnews.com/article/hong...
A Hong Kong democracy activist's long-awaited London reunion may be cut short
Former pro-democracy lawmaker Wu Chi-wai has reunited with his family in London after more than five years in a Hong Kong prison.
apnews.com
Technically, HKers *would* call themselves anti-leftists. But only because “the left” actually maps to conservative, even reactionary politics in the city because CCP is “the left”. Tycoon-friendly policies, social conservatism, nationalism, anti-LGBTQA+ all represent “the left” …
A thing that’s often hard for anyone outside of HK (and Taiwan?) to wrap their head around is that no opposition would be caught dead calling themselves “the left”, even if the policies pursued are “leftist” in any other place. The reason should be obvious if you think about it for even 2 seconds
Your Friend Temporary Michigander@trt311.bsky.social · 2w agoAlso Taiwan is economically progressive and has universal healthcare! It’s not some right wing anti-lefty island lol
To any BNO'ers flirting with supporting Reform, the Tories or indeed the Marshall family.
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Spectator going full on ethnonationalist
@mariaressa.bsky.social has been speaking about SM and democracy for some time now, probably the most preeminent voice these days, one of many indeed, one of the few with the weight of state molding her life to this day, she still has dozens of lawsuits against here from the Philippine government
I am proud to share my latest peer-reviewed work with Nathan Kar Ming Chan and John Mok, "Desperate Acts of Democracy: Identity Threat, Autocratization and Voter Turnout in Hong Kong" out now at @chinaquarterly.bsky.social. This piece is very special to us, and likely our last survey study in HK🧵
Old guy using a tissue on the elevator button to deny someone entry 3 metres away and approaching fast #HeĺloHongKong
Commentary: China's new supply-chain regulations could force multinational companies to choose between complying with foreign laws and avoiding legal liability in China, creating major risks for global business operations.
Nobody noticed, but China just rewrote the rules of global business
At first glance, the two regulations feel like one more step in the steady escalation of trade sanctions between China and the United States.
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European businesses are seriously spooked by China's new supply chain law EU Chamber in China statement says companies will struggle to comply with both EU rules and Chinese ones. Absolutely caught in a bind
His whole speech pointing out Western governments’ breaches of human rights was a *defence* of China breaching human rights and the fact that so many on here thought is was amazing is extremely puzzling
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP@hongkongfp.com · 4mo agoFact-checking pro-Beijing lawmaker Dominic Lee after he slams West, defends security law in viral UN speech 🔗 buff.ly/fCESpaq
Then there's the enduring #胸口畫框 《 》 aka gesturing to what's blatantly missing in front of our baseball jerseys — hint: our country's name is not Chinese Taipei — in a polite, pointed reminder of Taiwan's erasure by global sports bodies like the WBSC, IOC. wordsfromtaiwan.medium.com/team-taiwan-...
We traveled to Nike’s second-largest hub and interviewed 100 workers, none of whom said they earned anywhere near 1.9 times the local minimum wage, the pay rate the company has cited as its global average over the years. With @oregonian.com
Nike Says Its Factory Workers Make Nearly Double the Minimum Wage. In Indonesia, Workers Say, “It’s Not True.”
An average worker at the foreign factories that make Nike’s goods earns 1.9 times the local minimum wage, the company says. None of the workers The Oregonian/OregonLive spoke with in Nike’s second-lar...
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In Starmer’s Beijing trip, Hong Kong is only mentioned by him as a financial hub and a bridge for cooperation. Not once as a city where opposition has been criminalised, protesters imprisoned or murdered, free media eliminated & civil society dismantled. Full betrayal.
The Labubu factory is as much of a nightmare as you would expect
Workers at Chinese factory that produces Labubu toys are being exploited, says NGO
Exclusive: China Labor Watch says people aged 16-18 employed without required special protections
theguardian.com
There were no fireworks from the villagers in the new territories this year for the first time ever. Very strange..
RazvenHK@razvenhk.bsky.social · 7mo agoMultiple locations in China cancel New Year's fireworks, "force majeure" cited as reasons for cancelations. Online reactions mixed, as some declare that Chinese should only celebrate "Chinese" New Year instead of tonight.
‘They want to destroy my career’: Kiwi Chow on life as a dissenting director in Hong Kong
‘They want to destroy my career’: Kiwi Chow on life as a dissenting director in Hong Kong
With his new film rejected by official censors, the award-winning film-maker says he is being punished for his outspoken views
theguardian.com
China is exporting a surveillance empire built on U.S. technology. An AP investigation found Tibetans in Nepal are trapped under constant watch.
US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price
Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya.
bit.ly
Let’s start the week with style, about Hong Kong style (🎁 Free to read!) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/s...
A Multitude of Fashion in Hong Kong
nytimes.com
Post noods, but only high quality noods
YTSL@ytsl.bsky.social · 11mo agoPost noods, but only high quality noods
Andor would want you to cancel your Disney+ subscription. It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.