Tag: hongkong

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 ...)

Mass arrests of 50 pro-democracy activists, pollsters and politicians seem to all but criminalise opposition politics ... ( read original story ...)

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Wednesday called for the immediate release of dozens of pro-democracy politicians and advocates arrested in Hong Kong, adding that the U.S. is considering sanctions in ... ( read original story ...)

Mike Pompeo says the US will consider sanctions against officials involved in the arrest of 53 people in Hong Kong. ( read original story ...)