Nil of protest is now a norm in HK but some still try to speak up for rights albeit it’s a 4 ppl vs a dozen plus police short petition. The League of Social Democrats demanded “living salary” for workers and called it a “shame” that the min hourly wage can’t buy a proper meal.

When some seeds were no longer wanted in HK, where could they go?

Who would take them back after half a century?

Can they grow again on home soil?

What defines “HK rice”, or more fundamentally, “Hong Kong”?

Story here:

uk.news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-team…

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous apnews.com/article/china-…

Extremely excited to share this piece I wrote about Mandarin hegemony and structural linguistic hierarchies in China for People's Map of Global China thepeoplesmap.net/globalchinapul…

Unbleached reefs this year are coloured blue.

This is the most widespread and most severe mass bleaching and mortality event ever recorded on the Great Barrier Reef.

Appalling comments on Chinese social media regarding a trafficked Vietnamese 'bride' who ran away. The CCP's total failure in addressing the issue is not a bug, but by design. It's a way of mitigating the 35 million more men than women problem resulted from its one-child policy.

Time to celebrate this MAGNIFICENT matryoshka character: fish-in-fish, 魚-in-魚, ⿳⺈⿴囗魚灬. It's supposed to be fish roes, commonly written as (魚)子. 🐟🐟
I've only ever seen it in Silsby's Mandarin and Shanghainese dict. - I'd be super curious to see an actual attestation!

NEW: The Australian Parliament just published the most comprehensive exploration yet of the CCP’s ties to TikTok.

The 113-page doc details the CCP’s controls and its surveillance and propaganda aims, which contradict TikTok’s public statements.

aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.…

China's ageing population: A demographic crisis is unfolding for Xi bbc.in/3PPfDKy

Mount Zero has lived through dramatic political change since founding six years ago and book lovers mourned that the liberal-minded bookstore had seemingly become a victim of political tide shifts.

Proud teamwork w Holmes Chan Selim Chtayti Justin Chan

sg.news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-book…

Scientist who gene-edited babies is back in lab and ‘proud’ of past work despite jailing theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

Two years ago, a ‘4 day’ hard lockdown began in Shanghai. It went on for two months (longer for some). Some people couldn’t get food or medical treatment as authorities tried to completely get rid of Covid-19 - which would turn out to be an impossible task. #covidzero #china

The #HongKong government claims that you're safe from the city's Article 23 security law if you have no 'seditious intentions'--which is whatever the government says they are. I'm sure everyone in Hong Kong are *tremendously reassured.*

Secret classes to counter Russian brainwashing in occupied Ukraine
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HKFP Live: Hong Kong lawmakers review bill of Article 23 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

China keeps publishing fewer and fewer economic statistics.

JPMorgan via Snippet Finance

Proposed procedures in #Article23 bill for police to apply before a magistrate extra detention/restrictions on nat sec suspects have it that

1. Persons not yet arrested but only under investigation can be affected in their future right to legal representation

One of #China 's top Russia experts discusses why Beijing should have distanced itself from Moscow over #Ukraine .

' #Russia does not have the capacity to shelter China from the wind and rain', he writes.

His views in 10 key points.

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Thorough but chilling summary of Hong Kong's proposed Article 23 legislation means in practice...