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alojapan.com/1248364/more-hong More Hongkongers choosing Easter breaks in mainland China over Japan #australia #beijing #chaoshan #chengdu #China #ChinaTravelServiceHongKong #EastAfrica #Easter(Holiday) #GreaterBayArea #HongKong #Japan #JapanTours #Qingyuan #SocietyOfIATAPassengerAgents #tibet #tours #UnitedArabEmirates #xinjiang Hongkongers are choosing destinations in mainland China including Greater Bay Area cities and western regions such as Xinjiang and Tibet for East…

The shutdown of Voice of America and Radio Free Asia will mean US policy makers are less well informed about what is happening in China

"VOA and RFA (especially its Uyghur and Tibetan services) have been a vital source of information for America’s own decision-makers about what is happening on the ground in some of the world’s most authoritarian and closed societies."

open.substack.com/pub/underrep

UnderReported China · How Shutting Down VOA and RFA Also Leaves U.S. Policymakers in the Dark on ChinaBy Sarah Cook

📻 NGOs supporting human rights in China have signed an open letter in support of Radio Free Asia

"RFA serves as a critical source of information on the situation in the PRC and is an effective counter to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggression and malign influence in the Indo-Pacific region."

nchrd.org/2025/04/joint-statem

www.nchrd.orgJoint Statement in Support of Radio Free Asia | Chinese Human Rights Defenders
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World's democracies condemned the crackdown in Hong Kong, but did nothing to impose costs on the CCP dictatorship. Instead business (read: Chinese exports) only grew and grew. Gotta empower them despots! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hong Kong's pro-democracy struggle presented an opportunity for democracies to stand up against dictatorship, but we failed miserably.

Giving the #CCP yet another free pass (after its repressive occupation of Tibet in 1950-1951 and the 1989 Tiananmen massacre) surely emboldened #putin to invade #Ukraine in 2022.

Repression of Tibetans, Uighurs, South-Mongolians, Hongkongers... or a billion+ voiceless Chinese brought no consequences, but at least the invasion of *European* Ukraine gave us Europeans a limited wakeup.

It's not enough. We could have aided developing democracies when the Soviet empire fell in 1989-1991 and *not aided* repressive regimes. Instead we doubled down on doing business without limits and empowered the likes of Chinese dictatorship.

There are things I love about Europe, and things I am deeply ashamed of. Talking about human rights while empowering despots belongs in the latter category.

Some foreign individuals did "Stand with Hong Kong" though. At least one here in Mastodon is, as always, still busy fighting authoritarian takeover. Now in her homeland of the USA.

“Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.“
— Nelson Mandela

alojapan.com/1236397/japan-iss Japan issues megaquake warning, but many travellers from Hong Kong undeterred #DominicKwok #Japan #JapanTrips #JapaneseCabinetOffice #JapaneseMeteorologicalAuthorities #Korea #Malaysia #Megaquake #myanmar #NankaiTrough #Okinawa #PaulLawSiuHung #ShakotanEarthquake #SunflowerTravelServices #tibet #Tokyo #trips Some Hongkongers have cancelled their trips to Japan following a new megaquake warning issued by the country’s authorities, while others…