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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 09-Apr-2022 08:27:59 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   Regina Ip's talking points are so frustrating to read. She is wrong on everything except when she is 50% wrong, and they are all Beijing's talking points.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 09-Apr-2022 08:41:03 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Regina Ip: "UK government reports on Hong Kong are nothing but a self-deluding charade and must stop"
     
     www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/a…
     
     #hongkong #antiELAB
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 09-Apr-2022 08:44:12 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     > The actions taken by Beijing and the Hong Kong authorities were chronicled without the slightest reference to the threats to national security against which the new measures were introduced.
     
     There is no threat to national security. China is safe. Any Chinese revolution this century will not be staged inside Hong Kong. Hongkongers just want the rights they were promised.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 09-Apr-2022 08:45:36 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     > collusion with a foreign country to hurt China
     
     This is extremely broadly interpreted.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 09-Apr-2022 08:48:36 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     > Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared that “those who attack public property or the police – who injure the police officers who are trying to keep us all safe – those people will face the full force of the law”.
     
     You don't need the #HKNatSecLaw to prosecute battery and damage to property.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 09-Apr-2022 08:53:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     > Note also that the Johnson government introduced the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill into parliament in March 2021
     
     Yes, this is rightfully pointed out as hypocrisy. It is shameful.
     
     But it hasn't passed the House of Lords and Scottish nationalists would still be allowed to seek office even under this law, so it's not in the same order of magnitude.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 09-Apr-2022 08:55:28 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     > characterised as suppression by the same government that is moving to restrict civil liberties.
     
     This much is true.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 09-Apr-2022 09:03:20 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     > As for the politically stage-managed withdrawal of Lord Robert Reed and Lord Patrick Hodge from our Court of Final Appeal on the pretext that our courts are no longer independent, this allegation has been roundly rebutted by professional legal bodies and senior counsel in Hong Kong.
     
     And confirmed by others, so, meh.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 09-Apr-2022 09:03:37 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     > Despite the tremendous efforts of the British negotiators to secure the establishment of a final appellate court in Hong Kong with participation by distinguished overseas judges, the Johnson government decided to denigrate Hong Kong’s highest court.
     
     Really tells you how bad it must be, huh.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 09-Apr-2022 09:04:51 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     > At that time, Hong Kong was an autocracy – with a governor appointed by London and Legco comprising official or appointed members. As then financial secretary Philip Haddon-Cave pronounced, Hong Kong owed its success to a combination of the free market system and rule of law, with the prodigious industry and resourcefulness of the people.
     
     Yes. China threatened invasion if HK received the democracy other colonies did. And the rule of law is exactly what's in question now.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 09-Apr-2022 09:10:42 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     > Yet, the British government has now violated this memorandum with its announcement on February 24 that children of BN(O)s will be able to apply for visas to live in the United Kingdom independent of their parents.
     
     The memorandum limits what rights the UK promises to Hongkongers. It is not a promise to limit the rights of Hongkongers. The UK is a sovereign country that can grant entry to anyone it likes.
     
     This is the Putin argument: "but you promised not to protect them against me!"
     
     N/N
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 09-Apr-2022 09:12:34 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Arya K :archlinux: :emacs:
     @aryak She is wrong on so many things! Nothing of it is new, it's years-old Party line, but ughhhh.
   • Arya K :archlinux: :emacs: (aryak@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Apr-2022 09:12:35 UTC Arya K :archlinux: :emacs:

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     @clacke wow thats a long thread lol