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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 20h

But hey, it’s all ok because Xi must have a cardiac age of someone 14 years younger 😬

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 20h

The question of age limit is tricky for Lee because Xi is 72…

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 22h

Hong Kong leader John Lee has dodged questions about an age limit for running in the "patriots-only" legislative elections, after several septuagenarian lawmakers announced they would not seek another term. In full: buff.ly/lHsjeBK

HK leader dodges questions on age limit for running in 'patriots-only' LegCo race

Hong Kong leader John Lee has dodged questions about an age limit for running in the "patriots-only" legislative elections, after several septuagenarian lawmakers announced they would not seek another...

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 20h

At this point where ‘China’ is interchangeable with ‘US’ in tariff-related headlines

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

The White Terror is over in Taiwan, but the age of banned books, banned art, banned speech elsewhere is not. To be able to freely look back at a painful past as history and learn from it - wouldn't that be nice?

人，不是應該生而自由嗎？

"Aren't people supposed to be born free?"

Source : Telegram (Apr 2020)

Calligraphy of the words from a line on the Taiwanese movie Detention -
人，不是應該生而自由嗎？

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

The horror in 返校 resonated, not so much the supernatural but the *human* horror of authoritarianism, and the price that needs to be paid to come out the other side...

總得有人活下去，記得這一切有多得來不易

"Someone has to survive this, and remember how none of it was easy."

Source: Insta - everyblue99 (Apr 2020)

Image of two people sitting on the floor of a prison, one with an arm on the other person as if speaking to them and assuring them. Above them are the words "總得有人活下去，記得這一切有多得來不易"

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

The idea comes up again in the below from late 2020, when it was clear NSL has eroded academic freedom in HK. Schools are now a shade of bloody red, nothing but a theatre for "love your country, love your Party", a graveyard of free thought.

Source: Telegram/ Insta - sei3.zeoi6 (Sep 2020)

A school assembly hall drenched in red, with empty seats and a noose hanging on the stage. On top of the stage are the words "love your country, love your party" in simplified chinese

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

Here we have Xi - as a malevolent spirit haunting our education institutions - dismantling HKU with an axe. Instead of 返校, it says 党校 - School of the Party. When education becomes reeducation...something has gone terribly wrong.

Source: Telegram

A silhouette of Xi Jiping standing in a darkened corridor holding an axe, with the school crest of the HK University broken at his feet.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

The one below hints at the horrors at San Uk Ling Holding Centre, the notorious detention centre where the police allegedly assaulted protesters. There are rumours some met their deaths here.

你是忘記了，還是害怕想起來? - "Have you forgotten? Or are you afraid to remember?"

Source: Telegram (Sep/ Oct 2019)

Image that's based on a poster for the Taiwanese film 'Detention'. with a woman in a mask holding a candle in the middle, a woman in a mask splattered in blood, all in a dimly lit corridor with a ghostly aura. It's spooky, and Chinese text all over it which is also all spooky. The main gist from the image is that whoever made it thinks the HK government sucks.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

返校 (Detention) is a 2017 horror game from the Taiwanese studio Red Candle Games, and a movie adaptation was released in September 2019. The timing, and the subject matter of the White Terror, meant Detention featured quite a bit in HK protest art.

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gail 💖 🔜 GATEway FATE 🌱✨ @notgodzilla.bsky.social · 3d

oh btw if you guys liked Silent Hill f may I suggest Detention. It's by the same studio that made Devotion. It takes place during White Terror in Taiwan and has some really great horror elements from Taiwanese mythology.

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Gabriel Corsetti @gabrielcorsetti.bsky.social · 1d

Chinese authorities detain the leaders of the underground Christian "Zion Church", and idiot shills and Chinese ultranationalists on Twitter celebrate China cracking down on Zionism because the church had the word Zion in its name. Couldn't make it up.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been spending more time than I’d like to admit thinking about what other manga/anime series Thiel is into

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

You sometimes get the feeling HKers are just ATMs for the UK...

Screenshot of a Guardian article with text "Immigration and asylum
Permanent residency for Hongkongers may be worth £4bn to UK economy, says thinktank

Analysis finds value of moved pensions savings could raise similar revenue by 2029 as a year’s air passenger duty"

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

This: bsky.app/profile/samu...

samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 1d

Still, good thing we've deftly navigated history without accruing moral duties toward anyone but Hong Kongers! Right, Anakin?

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

It also means the welcome is conditional and can be taken away at any time. If the UK wants to kick HKers out, they can also just as easily and suddenly decide we are not productive or educated enough, and what then?

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

One the one hand - thanks? On the other hand, seeing Brits do mental arithmetic on 'desirables vs undesirables' doesn't feel right. It seems like we're in the 'desirables' bucket simply because they think HKers are productive and not because they are actually deserving of some dignity as *people*

Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 1d

“If Britain has no space for a group like the Hongkongers, then our national panic over immigration will surely have gone too far. This country needs some immigration, and if it is not the productive & educated exiles from Hong Kong, to whom we also have a moral duty, then who will we let in?”

Hong Kong’s migrants are the ones we need

Tightening the rules makes life harder for 160,000 highly educated and employable refugees

www.thetimes.com

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

I may be overthinking things, but you do have to wonder how much of this is because the way China wants to engage with the world has changed since the 1990s

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 1d

An 89 year old man. Arrested for threatening national security. The national there being the People's Republic of China. A very large and supposedly very powerful country.

Matthew Bradford @matthewbradford.bsky.social · 2d

Police confirmed with HKFP on Thursday that an 89-year-old man was apprehended on October 1 for a sedition offence under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, more commonly known as Article 23. The force did not say what led to the arrest.

Elderly man granted bail after sedition arrest on China's National Day

An elderly man has been released on police bail after he was arrested on China's National Day for allegedly acting with seditious intent.

hongkongfp.com

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 1d

"The streets are bustling, and the vibrancy is unmistakable." Really now?

Also, how "World City" is Hong Kong when 80% of the tabulated "tourism footfall" between January to August has been from just one country -- and, in fact, being domestic tourists (since Hong Kong is, ahem, part of China)?

Matthew Bradford @matthewbradford.bsky.social · 1d

‘Beneath this uneven recovery looms a larger, strategic question: Is Hong Kong rebounding to reclaim its cherished mantle as Asia’s World City – a cosmopolitan powerhouse akin to New York or London – or is it morphing into China’s World City, a specialised outpost serving the mainland’s ambitions?’

Commentary: Is Hong Kong still ‘Asia's World City’?

As China prepares for a key meeting to discuss its next five-year plan, repositioning Hong Kong must take focus, says former SCMP editor-in-chief Wang Xiangwei.

www.channelnewsasia.com

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Matthew Bradford @matthewbradford.bsky.social · 1d

Relabelling it ‘China’s World City’ is absolutely spot on 👌🏼

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

Ah finally, someone who knows how to tell good HK stories the way Beijing likes it

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 1d

Sun Shangwu, former deputy editor-in-chief at the state-run news outlet China Daily, has been appointed deputy director of Beijing's Liaison Office in Hong Kong. In full: buff.ly/iEEF2s5

Beijing appoints ex-China Daily senior editor as Liaison Office deputy chief

Sun Shangwu, former deputy editor-in-chief at the state-run news outlet China Daily, has been appointed deputy director of Beijing's Liaison Office in Hong Kong.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

I was joking, I’m pretty sure not

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

This sounds like the European Parliament is ten years late, which… ok, plausible.

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 1d

The European Parliament has called on China to release Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, ten years after he went missing in Thailand. In full: buff.ly/UDWB6Cy

EU parliament urges China to release Swedish bookseller, 10 years on

The European Parliament has called on China to release Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, ten years after he went missing in Thailand.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

And the slightly effed up/darkly funny part where HKers for a while were like 'why are you tear gassing us with the second rate stuff made in China, if you're gonna do it, give us the good stuff'. I mean, yes. But also, no.

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lando kardashian @adamsideas.bsky.social · 1d

a journalist who covered the protests told me just the other day they could tell when the police had run out of stock from a u.s. manufacturer and started using canisters from a different supplier

Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 2d

A few years ago The Lancet picked up an estimate from Bloomberg that ~90% of the HK population tasted tear gas during the 2019 pro-democracy protests. The article was filed under oncology because no one knows what happens when a city gets persistently tear gassed over a long stretch of time.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2d

The deployment of tear gas throughout the Chicago area is a growing health concern. ICE is deploying tear gas in residential neighborhoods, near children, playgrounds, stores, etc. What are the health implications on our communities?

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