Stefani Kuo, a 24-year-old New York-based playwright, poet, and actress, is a Hong Kong native and is developing her career in the United States after graduating from Yale University. Recently, Kuo delivered a 6-minute video expressing support for the pro-democracy Hong Kong protesters. The video went viral on social media after it was posted online. ...
China seems to be in no mood for allowing even people outside the country to have an opinion of their own. A Hong Kong protester recently reported that he was attacked and chased by some masked pro-Beijing men in Australia. The attack “They were nearby my house and waiting for me… They knew my address, ...
Thousands of people waved American flags and lights in Hong Kong’s business district on the evening of November 28 as a mass expression of gratitude to the U.S. government following the passage of two bills the previous day. The event organizers had arranged the rally to coincide with Thanksgiving as celebrated in the United States, so ...
Over the past six months, the people of Hong Kong have suffered heavy casualties, with some of the worst taking place during the clashes between police and students on a university campus on November 12. This situation is comparable to that of the June 4, 1989 brutality in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. It has made the ...
Though the protests in Hong Kong aim at limiting Beijing’s influence in the city, there is a possibility that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) might actually use them as a tool to increase its hold over the region. At the recently concluded Central Committee plenum, the Party proposed plans to set up a “sound” legal ...
From June 12 to November 13, Hong Kong police fired at least 9,362 rounds of tear gas to try to control the protesters. On November 19, the numbers released by Jiang Yongxiang, Senior Superintendent of the Police Public Relations Branch of the Hong Kong Police, showed that the police had only used 1,458 rounds of ...
A 12-year-old boy has become the youngest person to be convicted in the ongoing Hong Kong protests. Charged with vandalizing a police station and a railway interchange in October, the defendant pleaded guilty. The name of the boy has been withheld for legal reasons. Crime and conviction “A police officer in plain clothing saw the ...
For more than a decade now, 15 years to be precise, Time magazine has been regularly nominating influential people to its top 100 list of the most influential people in the world. This year, one of Hong Kong’s most prominent young politicians and activists, Edward Leung Tin-Kei, has made it onto the renowned Time list. The so-called ...
In a bid to protect Hong Kong’s democracy, the U.S. Congress has passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019. The U.S. House of Representatives approved the measure that aims to protect human rights in Hong Kong by a 417-1 margin amid efforts to crack down on months of anti-government protests. The House ...
The Chinese government bullies its citizens to submit to communist ideologies. Beijing seems to be exporting the attitude overseas, especially to Canada where Chinese Canadians are now being harassed for having a mind of their own. Chinese bullying There are about 2 million Chinese Canadians. While they have been living in peace for much of ...
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