Month: January 2021

It's no coincidence that China chose a volatile and sensitive time in America to round up pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. ( read original story ...)

More than 50 of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy activists and politicians have been arrested in the biggest crackdown since China imposed a draconian security law last year. About 1,000 ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing and Moscow, which have long faced criticism from American leaders for their democratic shortcomings, turn the tables on Washington. ( read original story ...)

An angry mob’s storming of the U.S. Capitol has been received as a gift in Beijing, where a senior Chinese diplomat cited the crisis to justify the communist regime’s repression of Hong Kong. ( read original story ...)

President-elect Biden's pick for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, had tweeted in support of Hong Kong, saying the new administration would stand up to Beijing. ( read original story ...)

China's foreign ministry further pushed the false equivalence on Thursday when its spokesperson accused the United States of double standards. ( read original story ...)

Club 71 — the preferred watering hole of Hong Kong’s artists, filmmakers, journalists and anyone else who liked a cheap beer — was about to close. Get there for last drinks. I rushed up the hill ... ( read original story ...)

Attorney John Clancey, one of 53 Hong Kong pro-democracy figures rounded up by authorities, was granted bail even as another activist was arrested. ( read original story ...)

Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been arrested on a new charge under the national security law while an American rights lawyer who was detained in a sweeping crackdown was grant ... ( read original story ...)

In response to the U.S. riots, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying compared the mobs on Capitol Hill with protests in Hong Kong in 2019. ( read original story ...)