#ChowHangtung, #LeeCheukyan, #AlbertHoChunyan Just finished the interview w/ @news.abc.net.au. After finishing the interview & on the way back to @tsukikagecoffee.bsky.social, I couldn’t hold back my tears. Hope that you are fine despite detained. Many people remember you. Keep you in my prayers.🙏

Marco Rubio’s State Department fast-tracked a journalist visa for a fugitive former Polish minister accused by Warsaw of misusing public funds. He was set to be extradited to Poland from Hungary following Orban’s defeat. Now he has found safe haven in Trump’s America www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Final arguments in a Hong Kong national security trial involving Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan, two organizers of vigils remembering the Tiananmen Square massacre, concluded today, with a verdict expected in July @kanisleung.bsky.social apnews.com/article/hong...

Blogg-varsel: Jeg kommer til å skrive en artikkel i etterkant av Xi-Trump-møtet. Forventninger: ...overordnet: Ingen ting vil tilsi at Trump er forberedt Ett hensyn vil trumfe alle andre for Trump: han selv Evt. endringer i forholdet til Xi og Kina vil bli dreininger vekk fra vårt verdigrunnlag

Extraordinary op ed by Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal www.thaienquirer.com/70052/opinio...

In light of Trump-Xi summit, I wrote a piece for @wpr.bsky.social on the issue the two leaders will NOT discuss: discontent in China. I argue it's a mistake for the West to focus only on economic and technological issues while ignoring the Chinese society. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/china-west-d...

Veldig bra. Klima- og miljøbevegelsen må klare å si ja til noe, ikke bare nei til alt. Dette er en lissepasning til AP og Høyre. www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Okyw...

Reading the flurry of articles on the upcoming Trump-Xi summit, it pains me to see the absence of human rights -- although it would be comical for Trump to raise the issue. What a sign of the times we are in.

In a widely publicized spy case, two men linked to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London have been found guilty of assisting a foreign intelligence service www.bbc.com/news/article...

PRESS RELEASE: Bill Yuen, office manager at London's Hong Kong Trade Office, and his accomplice Peter Wai, have been found guilty of "assisting a foreign intelligence service" under National Security Act. 👇 thecfhk.org/hong-kong-tr...

I fjor kom Iver B. Neumann (direktør ved @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social) med boka "Hva skjer med verden?" Selv om jeg mener teksten på noen få punkter burde hvert mer detaljert, mener jeg den er verdifull og oversiktlig. Les min omtale her. hongkongsettfranorge.org/2026/05/01/b...

Local reporting now suggests that China pressured the cancelation of @rightscon.org. If true, this is the latest example of the CCP successfully exporting censorship far beyond its borders. 1/4

AUF starter i dag en serie for å minnes de som ble drept for snart 15 år siden. Vi skal ikke glemme, og jeg har skrevet en sak om det her. snoen.substack.com/p/glem-ikke

In case I’m too cryptic - it’s Xinjiang. A lot of Chinese solar panels come from Xinjiang and are likely made by slavery www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hong Kong's remaining pro-democracy businesses continue to come under harassment by the government. #YellowEconomicCircle restaurant Hopers' Base recieves multiple visits from gov inspectors in 1 day, twice by health authorities, once by the fire department and immigration.

RSF: A French journalist working on a documentary about Beijing’s grip on Hong Kong was stopped at the airport, held for three hours and denied entry rsf.org/en/hong-kong...

Jeg er sjeleglad for at jeg var 25 da sosiale medier kom for fullt. Dette forslaget fremstår radikalt for mange, men det virkelig radikale er at denne teknologien bare har blitt sluppet løs på barn og unge uten noen sperrer i årevis, på tross av åpenbare negative effekter. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Gx...

As expected, Hong Kong Government's solution to fixing everything is tougher penalties, rather than what has been evidently needed based on the Tai Po fire inquiry hearings: competent enforcement www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

Verden er ikke binær. Vi er ikke nødt til å velge mellom Trump og Xi. Det er deprimenrende å bevitne førstnevntes nedsabling av den regelstyrte verdensordenen. Men det er i vår interesse å styre langt vekk fra Xis foretrukne verdensorden også. hongkongsettfranorge.org/2026/04/19/x...

Robbery in broad daylight.

Breaking: Chinese rail giant CRRC's Portuguese subsidiary withdrew from a consortium to provide trams to metro project in Lisbon after EU foreign subsidies regulation probe - replaced by a Polish company Story to follow with Xiaofei Xu

Five banks, including HSBC & Standard Chartered, were ordered by a US judge to submit records for inspection, due to allegations they were involved in schemes to launder money to Iran • JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, and BNY Mellon are the three others www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04...

Why I don't expect liberal democracy to go away any time soon: My article on the resilience of liberal democracy, published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social. Perfectly timed to the day after Orbáns defeat and a small spike in "democracy-optimism". There are, I argue, good reasons for such optimism.

«Alt lenge før Epstein-saken ble kjent, stilte hun grunnleggende spørsmål» «Har møtt ulike grader av motstand i 30 år, men stått fast ved at bedre innsyn er avgjørende» @bardvegard.bsky.social om Fritt Ords pris til Hilde Henriksen Waage. Gratulerer og hurra! frittord.no/nb/aktuelt/h...

Only in Hong Kong … • So-called restaurant licences must include a promise to uphold national security • Concerts by so-called Japanese bands are forbidden until Sanae Takaichi apologises or resigns • So-called flowers are seditious on certain dates 1/2

Only in Hong Kong - where a language conversation club inside a bookshop is called an unlicensed school - where the peaceful marches of more than 2 million people are called riots - where the promises made by China in 1984 were never meant to be kept - where its colonial past is rewritten nonstop

The PLA really has no idea what it's doing, hm? Air incursions have basically increased from Day 1 of Cheng's trip until now and are at the highest immediately after Cheng's meeting with Xi. Really throws water onto the KMT narrative of being able to dial back tensions

Another one for the Tourism Board's "Only in Hong Kong" campaign: Literally every aspect of your life is a matter of national security, and shall be policed as such. Enjoy your stay!

FLAME OF FREEDOM: @kongtsunggan.bsky.social reflects on the passing of Koo Sze-yiu, the stalwart #HongKong activist arrested more than a dozen times for protesting injustice and standing up for labor rights. 🔥https://thecfhk.org/koo-sze-yiu-hong-kongs-longest-standing-protester-has-died-aged-80/

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

En av våre helter døde i dag. Vi skrev om hans protest mot diktaturet i @vg.no, i forbindelse med vinter-OL i Beijing i 2022. Vi minnes Koo Sze-yiu men den største respekt og takknemlighet.

I en artikkel på nrk.no skriver @hakonben.bsky.social at Kharg er under angrep fra Israel. Men på forsiden er overskriften "USA angriper Kharg-øya". Retorikken til Trump er alarmerende, men overskriften er likevel kraftig misvisende på nåværende tidspunkt. Dette er dårlig arbeid på "desken".

Just outrageous. Not even allowing access to her lawyer after she’s imprisoned. #ZhangZhan That’s CCP #China. Crazy and shameless. x.com/changchengwa...

I dag signerte EU og Australia en frihandelsavtale. EU har hatt en frihandelsavtale med Japan siden 2019. Kina misbruker handelsmakt for å fremme diktaturets interesser. Likevel står Norge uten avtale med Japan og Australia, og prioriterer arbeidet med en avtale med Kina. www.dn.no/utenriks/aus...

V-Dem v.16 is now released, w. updated scores for 2025. Most countries remain stable from 2024, but some clear improvements (on diff’t democracy indices), incl. S. Korea, Sri Lanka & Mauritius. Largest declines came, by far, in the US. This figure shows 10-yr changes on the Liberal Dem. index.

The defense is 100% right, of course. No need to look further than to Taiwan. There, the one party (KMT) rule ended without the government being overthrown. And KMT has remained a factor in Taiwanese politics ever since. @hongkongfp.com hongkongfp.com/2026/03/11/c...

This is what China does, though with far greater precision and scale www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...

Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded… The new Private Eye is out now.

«Utestengelsen av Russland har ødelagt Putins image – innlemmelse igjen er en krigserklæring» idrettspolitikk.no/2026/03/03/u...

A man has been fined HK$3000 (US$383) for leaving a lone flower near Prince Edward MTR Station tonight. The last day of the month has been a "politically sensitive" day for the Hong Kong authorities since the August 31st Incident in 2019.

Klassekampen publiserte nylig en kronikk som tok til orde for å bytte USA med Kina som norsk partner. Begrunnelsen avslørte en fornektelse av hvor Kina vil styre verden. Mitt motinnlegg ble trykket i går; bak betalingsmur. Her er en åpen utgave av teksten. hongkongsettfranorge.org/2026/02/28/e...

Eight months in jail for the unthinkable speechcrime of criticising the govt on social media. My word.

Bare nevner det www.aftenposten.no/amagasinet/i...

UK Green Party knuser valgprojeksjonen fra @gryblekastadalmas.bsky.social !

From woe to go the Chinese and Hong Kong govts’ persecution/persecution of publisher Jimmy Lai has been profoundly politicized. A small win to see acknowledgment that a judge “erred,” but let’s be clear: they all have. Lai should be freed immediately and unconditionally. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wrote this piece last week. On #JimmyLai #ChowHangtung #HongKong #criminalinjustice

I know it’s been weird for a while. But it’s getting weirder.