HONG KONG—July has been a month of constant struggle for this city in recent years, but especially since the protests last summer, which raised the stakes in the quest for universal suffrage. This year is even more chaotic: A third wave of COVID-19 infections has revived worries that Hong Kong, […]
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unloaded on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning. The Trump Secretary of State discussed the Chinese app TikTok, the Chinese human rights abuses and the postponed election […]
The Bank of China says the country should prepare for potential US sanctions by increasing use of its own financial messaging network for cross-border transactions on the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau. According to the report, greater use of the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) instead of the Belgium-based SWIFT […]
Health Editor’s Note: While it appeared that Hong Kong may have contained COVID-19, the pandemic is now progressing again and that country is shutting down, yet again…..Carol Hong Kong was a pandemic poster child. Now it’s a cautionary tale. by Shibani Mahtani/The Washington Post HONG KONG — At the start […]
Relations between the United Kingdom and the People’s Republic of China are turning increasingly sour, as London has introduced new eased routes to citizenship for nearly three million residents of Hong Kong. The Chinese foreign ministry threatened to end its recognition of British National Overseas (BNO) passports held by residents […]
(Author Joe Hoft lived in Hong Kong for nearly a decade and provides this first hand perspective) China took control of Hong Kong, the former British colony, in 1997. Ever since that time, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the small group that runs China, has attempted to control the tiny […]
Anti-racism uprisings: HK youth’s lessons on the West By: Andre Vltchek for VT Three years ago, I visited Old Supreme Court Building in Hong Kong, also known as The Court of Final Appeal, together with my friend, an Afghan-British lawyer, who was on a personal mission of ‘re-discovering Asia.’ Coming […]
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump signed legislations that suspended the US preferential treatment for Hong Kong and envisaged sanctions over Chinese officials responsible for implementation of Hong Kong national security law. China strongly opposed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act signed earlier by Donald Trump and expressed intentions to respond with sanctions […]
TORONTO (Sputnik) – More than 60 Canadian lawmakers called for Magnitsky law sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for alleged human rights abuses in Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang in an open letter addressed to the government. “We, the signatories, call on the Government of Canada to invoke Justice for Victims […]
Schools were shut when the novel coronavirus first became a concern. Here’s how Hong Kong handled re-opening — and now, a second closing due to a spike in cases. (Image credit: Laurel Chor for NPR) Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0a/1079850296_0:208:3071:1935_1200x675_80_0_0_19b63357ab986c1a3d1e5b6440e6d0c6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202007101079850343-german-foreign-office-summons-chinese-ambassador-to-discuss-hong-kong-situation/ BERLIN (Sputnik) – The German Foreign Office summoned the Chinese ambassador earlier on Friday to discuss the situation around Hong Kong. “The Chinese ambassador was invited today to the Federal Foreign Office for a conversation. State Secretary [Miguel] Berger presented the stand of […]
Australia’s top security official sharply criticised comments from a barrister from the Law Council amid increased scrutiny from numerous human rights groups, who stated a new security bill could violate child rights and international law. Tempers have flared after Australia’s national spy chief said he was “offended” by comparisons between […]
U.S. sanctions in response to Hong Kong’s national security law – and Beijing’s tighter grip over the city’s financial system – could pose challenges for local crypto brokerage firms. The U.S. Senate passed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act on Thursday to penalize China for eroding Hong Kong’s autonomy. The bill […]
The Trump administration’s anti-China policies, including tariffs and attacks on telecoms giant Huawei, have forced the Chinese government to tighten its grip over Hong Kong, an analyst tells RT. Speaking to RT’s Boom Bust on the developments in the Chinese territory after Beijing imposed its national security law, Jeffrey Tucker […]
US video conferencing platform Zoom has joined Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Telegram in suspending data requests from Hong Kong authorities following the enactment of the new national security law. Like its tech industry contemporaries, a Zoom spokesperson said the company “supports the free and open exchange of thoughts and ideas,” […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused China’s authorities of “Orwellian” censorship on Hong Kong. Earlier in the day, the Hong Kong Education Bureau has recommended that schools review their book collections and remove materials that might violate the new security law introduced by the Chinese central […]
by Press TV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: We knew this new security law would be coming, and so did the Cold War crowd in the West, that after the failed US and British attempt at a color revolution in Hong Kong, the days of letting them infiltrate and trigger secession […]
On Tuesday, Beijing’s top legislative body, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), passed a new national security law for Hong Kong that is seen by residents of the Special Administrative Region as a violation of their liberties. The legislation was signed by Chinese President Xi Jinping later […]
US Exposed For Funding Last Year’s Hong Kong Protests By Alex Lo, South China Morning Post. July 3, 2020 US Exposed For Funding Last Year’s Hong Kong Protests2020-07-032020-07-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/09/hong-kong-protests-carrying-us-flags-and-trump-liberate-hong-kong-banner-9-8-19-photo-by-simone-mccarthy-1-e1593784592813.jpg200px200px Above photo: Hong Kong protests carrying US flags and Trump Liberate Hong Kong banner September 18, 2019. Simone McCarthy. The little-known but powerful US […]
The announcement follows statements from Hong Kong’s chief executive, who accused opponents of China’s national security law of being “the enemy of the people” following pro-secessionist violence. Mr Zheng Yanxiong has been appointed National Security Advisor, chief executive Carrie Lam announced on Friday ahead of the launch of a new national […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007021079778672-us-senate-passes-bill-to-sanction-banks-over-hong-kong-security-law/ The new national security bill that penalises secession, subversion and terrorism in the special administrative region was adopted by Chinese lawmakers and signed by President Xi Jinping on 30 June. The US Senate passed a bill on Tuesday sanctioning banks that do business […]
On Wednesday, the UK Foreign Office summoned Chinese Ambassador to Britain Liu Xiaoming to express “deep concerns” over the new national security law for Hong Kong passed by China’s top legislative body and signed by President Xi Jinping on Tuesday. China’s Ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming has slammed Britain’s “accusations” […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107919/17/1079191708_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_6d60462159b904abeda55a74fde54046.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006301079762411-us-pompeo-denounces-chinas-draconian-security-law-pledges-to-defend-hong-kongs-freedoms/ US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday denounced China’s national security law and pledged to defend Hong Kong’s freedoms. “The CCP’s [Communist Party of China’s] draconian national security law ends free Hong Kong and exposes the Party’s greatest fear: the free will […]
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, … with PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: The US has exposed its hidden hand quite openly now with the Hong Kong issue. Any country that opposes US ‘color revolutions’, which many would consider an interference in the internal affairs of another country’, will find […]