The EU submitted 3 papers on WTO reform in Geneva this week - much of the content aimed at China. Given that WTO reform is one of the 4 workstreams under new EU-China Trade and Investment Consultations mechanism, these seem effectively to be EU's opening negotiating position

Really useful factsheet on the EU's China shock 2.0 from my talented colleagues on our design desk and those running the SCMP Plus subscriber product www.scmp.com/plus/ec...

Watch the Global Dialogues session "Responding to Authoritarian Legality and Authoritarian Trauma via Social Resilience and Legal Resistance: the Case of Hong Kong", with Mandy Lee, Eric Yan-ho Lai (@ericyhlai.bsky.social) and Kinmen Chan. youtu.be/15R-smMegNQ?...

Concerning development for transnational repression. “But Zang wrote that she received a phone call from Zhang the next day saying that Thai police suddenly intervened and stopped her from leaving [to resettle in Canada].”

In Hong Kong, incompetents (or worse) gets accolades and awards; heroes and heroines jail time.

I etterkant av møtet med sin kinesiske kollega, møtte utenriksminister Espen Barth Eide norsk presse. Dette innlegget kritiserer såvel en tannløshet i pressens spørsmål, som Eides naive framstilling av Folkerepublikkens posisjon i internasjonal politikk. hongkongsettfranorge.org/2026/07/10/u...

1/2 Urovekkende ofte framstilles Kina som en potensiell leder for en regelstyrt verdensorden. Denne oppfatningen forutsetter manglende innsikt i hvordan Beijing undergraver denne ordenen. I dag publiserer Aftenposten et innlegg jeg har skrevet om dette. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

I forbindelse med Wang Yis Oslo-besøk diskuterte #dax18 loven om "etnisk enhet" i Kina. Norsk-kinesiske relasjoner ble også drøftet mer generelt. Mye mer kunne vært sagt om loven. Og én påstand i debatten svært lite veloverveid. Her er min kommentar. hongkongsettfranorge.org/2026/07/08/n...

Art for Lobga Rangzen 52-year-old Tibetan activist On July 2, 2026, he died after an act of self-immolation outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Lobga Rangzen's Final Statement： 「Long live the independence of the Tibetan nation!」

Expressen har publisert en viktig kommentar av Angela Gui som blottlegger hvilket skrekkregime den besøkende Wang Yi representerer. Hennes far Gui Minhai ble kidnappet i Thailand i 2016. Hverken hun eller svenske myndigheter har hatt kontakt med ham de siste 8 årene. www.expressen.se/kultur/var-a...

Kina innførte en ny lov på onsdag for å legalisere forfølgelse av etniske grupper, og åpner for global maktutøvelse. I går publiserte Klassekampen et innlegg jeg skrev med Uighurkomiteen og Tibetkomitéen. (KK legger leserinnlegg bak betalingsmur, åpent her.) hongkongsettfranorge.org/2026/07/03/k...

Not a great time to be a flower seller in HK, where flowers are sedition when the police decide they are sedition.

Record haul for HKFP at SOPA journalism awards 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/06/19/r...

Eye-opening findings in Bertelsmann Stiftung survey on the eve of EU leaders debate on China 77% in the EU feel their countries need to reduce dependency on China "even if it hurt your economy in the short term", including 80% in Germany, 84% in France, 72% in Spain

Seven years ago today, 16 June 2019, one day after CE Carrie Lam withdrew the extradition bill, the people of Hong Kong still went out on a peaceful march, demanding her resignation & protesting the totalitarian GovHK. It would be called “The 2 Million + 1 March”. #NeverForget #FuckGovHK

Today is the 7th anniversary for the death of Marco Leung. Plainclothes police officers have been visibly deployed at Pacific Place in Admiralty, Hong Kong near the spot where he fell to deter people open acts of remembrance.

Jeg har skrevet en bokomtale av Anders Hammers «I front». Kortversjonen: Dette er tre bøker i én. Alle svært informative og lesverdige. Anbefales! hongkongsettfranorge.org/2026/06/12/b...

7 years ago, the day that taught the city that peaceful protest will still be met with tear gas and police violence

A man has been found working in literal slave like conditions at a concrete store in Heibei, China. The now elderly man, who is also intellectually challenged was found working without safety equipment, hauling 20tonnes of concrete by hand; he has not been paid for the past 20+ years of work.

Important signal from Merz: He says in Bundestag speech that Europe can't stand idly by when other countries are not sticking to trade rules. He says Europe will protect its industry against distortive policies

He realizes that the HK government had effectively stomped out the major avenues for collective empathy, right.

Some China-related points from the just-published EU-South Korea joint statement: 1. "We reiterate our support for the freedom of navigation and overflight, including in the South China Sea, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea."

Jeg stikker innom NRK Nyhetsmorgen rundt 08.00 for å snakke om spliden mellom USA og Israel i Iran-krigen. Tiden er knapp der, men jeg har nettopp lagt ut en lang artikkel om temaet her: snoen.substack.com/p/amerikaner...

Alfred, a traveller from Hubei, China thanks those in Hong Kong who continue in remembering the Tiananmen anniversary, saying "Between remembering and forgetting, I will choose to remember…to resist those who revise and rewrite [history] and also remembering to preserve our humanity."

念念不忘，必有迴響，有燈就有人。 And of course, the light can never be snuffed out.

1/2 Hva setter dere på kjøreplanen i dag, @sigridsollund.bsky.social @groarne.bsky.social ? Menyen på fotballandslagets første middag i USA, eller at det er 37 år siden diktaturet sendte 300.000 soldater mot egen befolkning?

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Qatar gir seg faen ikke. Hvor mye skal Abdullah Ibhais lide for at han vil at sannheten skal fram?! Qatar-varsler fratatt passet etter besøk i Bergen – hindres fra å dra til Oslo Freedom Forum idrettspolitikk.no/2026/05/26/q...

#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