Violet Law

Having harped on #Hongkongprotests, #iingwen may need to deliver for the #antiELAB exiles in #Taiwan #台灣. But, damned if she does--or doesn't. Thanks to @JMichaelCole1 @lnachman32 for insights in my #taiwanelection2020 post-mortem @AJEnglish @AJENews: https://t.co/Pfl9rs8SgI

History (nearly) repeats itself 40 years later across the strait: #antiELABhk protesters used #HumanRightsDay to press their pro-#democracy cause, recalling #美麗島事件 #FormosaIncident in #taiwan Read https://t.co/Cw568m87YP https://t.co/lW2FP1YAPD

Polls for #HKDCElections just closed. Amidst #antiELAB storm, in #HongKong observers suggest politics can still remain local. Former #UmbrellaMovement #OccupyHK student leader @TommyCheungsy found how running a campaign is different from leading protests. https://t.co/z1XIwHxtM2 https://t.co/z4ztCtkFQy

“We need to let the world know Hong Kong people’s perseverance,” said @joshuawongcf at #UmbrellaMovement 5 years' mark. #antiELAB fight shows lessons learned: https://t.co/5egw8bcC5Q

The most relaxing #antiEALB #antiELABhk protests #HKWAY823 evokes the Baltics' fight against Soviet 30 years ago. “What we’re facing isn’t dissimilar from the former Soviet regime,” HK Baptist U's Eastern European history prof Kenneth Chan told me: https://t.co/NMOCOx5gv4

Who needs the #PLA given #HKPolice has been a paramilitary force since after 1957 riots? Also, problem with cops using excessive force in #antiELAB are symptoms of no accountability to the people it polices and little oversight. Experts told me: https://t.co/VV1eJEf0GU https://t.co/joMmR6regY

Having watched struggles across the world, globally-aware young #HongKongers take on #Beijing, prepared to be “playing the long game.” The #antiELAB movement has morphed into a now-or-never battle for their homeland. My #AlJazeera story https://t.co/inCErHuNQQ https://t.co/8oJuSmJKwl

#HongKong police fired tear gas on #noextraditiontoChina protesters -- from behind -- as they retreated along the harbor front promenade toward Central. Unlike during #OccupyHK in 2014, the tear gas this time tastes a bit sea-salty.

Record turnout aside, the pressure to forget #TiananmenMassacre30 in #HongKong is relenting. My debut in #ChinaFile https://t.co/a1hovnDMC1

Adieu to #cnecountrytwosystems? Once passed, #HongKong national anthem bill may set the precedent for more #China laws to “sooner or later be fully applicable" here, told #AssociatedPress https://t.co/0WqUbfJDPv

HK-Macau-Zhuhai #bridge as the world’s longest sea link leashes #HongKong to #China opens. #Xijinping present to show who’s boss. And where have the #Chinesewhitedolphins gone? https://t.co/i4AaSeXMFO https://t.co/32IQox28OF

#China's “Ig Nobel” (Confucius) Peace Prize counts #Duterte #HunSen among finalists; #Putin #Mugabe past winners. https://t.co/yaJtxACxjv https://t.co/1sahWA1Vti

Thai officials told #JoshuaWongch: "#Thailand is same as #China, different from #HongKong. So Thailand is a new Chinese province?

China's "spy museum" more interesting than it looks, and thoroughly schools its people on all that they should fear. https://t.co/Y2FyUZww3c

A peek at China's re-opened spy museum, where foreigners no longer forbidden, apparently; few locals were sighted. https://t.co/st6JG6K76K

Record turnout for #Hongkong #Legco elections vote in @Demosisto @Youngspiration lawmakers https://t.co/mCZGu95Gz0 https://t.co/QR9bzuiDsr

Found guilty of #HK #Umbrellamovement @joshuawongcf: "facing off [against] the CCP is a long battle for democracy."https://t.co/QxLXPHNFsn