Feature: Weaving their web: how the national security police recruits informants
Activists flee Hong Kong to escape the clutches of the police, who press them and their families into providing information
by Kris Cheng

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Alarmed by the potential for cheating, many schools around the world are greeting AI in the classroom with apprehension & skepticism. Not so in China, which has emerged as a global leader in edtech.

A pleasure working on this story with Matt Dagher-Margosian thewirechina.com/2024/06/09/tea…

At today's Hong Kong vs. Iran World Cup qualifiers game, police filmed the crowd during the National Anthem. Three men were subsequently escorted from the stands for allegedly disrespecting the National Anthem. Sources confirm two have since been released.
Via: The Collective HK

At Hong Kong's Victoria Park, once the venue for annual candlelight vigils marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, police today detained a young man in a Che Guevara t-shirt.

Umbrellas were used to shield the man from view, and he was later taken away on a police van.

The moment when Artist Sanmu was being stopped and searched by the police.

Earlier tonight, Hong Kong performance artist Sanmu Chen appeared to sign the words '8964' in the air—referring to the date of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown—before being surrounded and taken away by police.

Sources tell AFP News Agency that Chen has been released.

Rachel Cheung wrote about the Chinese approach to building a Starlink-like capability in this very insightful piece for The Wire China

Featuring some comments from Benjamin Silverstein and myself!

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It’s no surprise China is desperate for its own version of Starlink, SpaceX’s constellation of satellites in low earth orbit. But how Beijing is going about building its own constellation is a bit unexpected, as our cover story this week from Rachel Cheung explores.

“Xi Jinping has sent the message that the internal debate needs to be focused more on what he calls the good stories of China,” said Roach. “It’s up to him to define what the word good is.”

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'WeChat is not targeting user expansion, and it is very cautious about the potential risks of growing too big.'

Top prosecutor Maggie Yang said the government 'intends to appeal against the acquittal' of two defendants.

Judge Andrew Chan ruled that, despite the acquittals, Lee and Lau still have to report to the police once a month and cannot leave Hong Kong, pending the appeal.

Hong Kong's High Court will soon deliver verdicts for 16 pro-democracy figures who pleaded not guilty to subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law.

AFP News Agency story on what we can expect today: yhoo.it/3VvqPzj

Xinqi Su 蘇昕琪 and I are on the scene. More to follow🧵

Protest regular Alexandra Wong, nicknamed 'Grandma Wong', was kept around 50 metres away from the court entrance and surrounded by police.

'Release all political prisoners, support the 47,' she yelled. Police presence has ramped up in the past two hours.

#BREAKING HK nat sec police have made first arrests under the #Article23 security law.

Six people including jailed Tiananmen activist #ChowHangTung have been arrested for “publishing posts with seditions intend, taking advantage of an upcoming sensitive day”.

#BREAKING : Scotland-based digital music distributor EmuBands confirmed that it removed the protest song 'Glory to Hong Kong' from platforms globally.

Managing director Ally Gray told AFP News Agency it was his decision and it was due to the court order.

Story: bit.ly/3WVnHh5

ICYMI: Govt chief information officer Tony Wong has written to music streaming platform and online forums, reminding them to observe court injunction against protest anthem Glory to Hong Kong, 明報即時新聞 reports.

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HK leader John Lee confirmed just now one of the three men charged by the UK ystd for surveilling overseas activists for HK intelligence service is an old classmate as shown in the photo. “All my impression on this person is this photo,” Lee told reporters.

#BREAKING : Hong Kong's appeal court has granted the government's request to ban 'Glory to Hong Kong', an anthem popularised during the city's massive democracy protests in 2019.

The ban is the first of its kind since Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1997. More to follow🧵

New: The Inflation Reduction Act was seen as a generational opportunity for American miners as well as US free trade partners.

But two years later, the industry is in crisis, and no closer to chipping away at China's dominance. I looked into why:

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Chinese-owned media are distancing themselves from Asia's highest-profile journalism prize amid rising domestic pressure on those seen to be 'colluding with foreign forces.' #SOPA

asia.nikkei.com/Business/Media… via Nikkei Asia