London-based Hong Kong journalist covering UK/EU/US-China relations, Diplomacy, Greater China stories. Reports in @hkfp @VOANews @nikkeiasia
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Cheung Kim-hung, former publisher of Apple Daily, appeared on Phoenix TV as a “rehabilitated person”, praising China’s developments, during a trip organised by Correctional Services Dept to Shenzhen.
Cheung was supposed to be released in March 2028.
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Chinese state-owned Bauhinia Culture Holdings became the largest shareholder of Phoenix TV in June 2021
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#EXCLUSIVE: Washington has stopped recruitment for its professional exchange programs in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, in a move opposed by US Ambassador to China David Perdue, President Donald Trump’s long-time ally, insiders have told Kyodo News. english.kyodonews.net/articl…
Fatai Miao, one of the people who allegedly surveilled the son of the Taiwanese president, took a "one-way" flight to China two weeks ago, prosecutors said in court on Wednesday, referring to him as "Individual 1."
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Yesterday and today, Taiwan prosecuted perpetrators, or put them on wanted list if they are not in Taiwan, who executed transnational repression against critics of China. A common thread: using Hong Kong proxies who are not directly linked to Chinese or Hong Kong governments
Taiwan prosecutors have indicted a Hong Kong gang member for an attack on Yaita Akio, a Japanese-Taiwanese China expert and think tank founder. Yaita was punched in the face at a Taichung hotel in July after giving a talk on regional security. Authorities call it a case of Chinese transnational repression.
Case today
Four people have been charged after allegedly taking payment from Hong Kong residents to spy on a Taiwanese lawmaker and his family.
In full: hongkongfp.com/2026/10/07/ta…
Photo: Puma Shen, via Facebook.
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💥Boom - it's ready, the joint Franco-German paper / letter to VDL on China.
Berlin & Paris - previously at polar opposite ends of the scale on China policy - now want a kill switch to cut China out of the EU market. This would have been unfathomable a few short months ago 🤯
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US arrests Chinese agent for spying on Taiwan President Lai Ching-te’s son.
We just arrested a Chinese foreign agent at LAX attempting to depart for China.
Wanying Zhang, aka “Heather,” 34, of Irvine, was arrested today by @FBILosAngeles on a federal complaint charging her with acting as an unregistered agent of the People’s Republic of China.
According to the affidavit, Zhang traveled to Seattle in 2025 and, at the direction of PRC officials, surveilled a close relative of a Taiwanese government official, sending photos, videos, and license plate information to those officials.
She coordinated the trip with an associate and used tradecraft to avoid detection. She never notified the Attorney General she was acting for a foreign government, a federal offense.
She will appear in federal court in Los Angeles tomorrow for her initial appearance. Defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
MI5 alert: More than 100 UK-linked academics have contributed to research projects funded by the Chinese Ministry of State Security via the China General Technology Research Institute
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Hong Kong’s national security police have reportedly arrested an independent journalist behind an online news outlet on suspicion of publishing fake news.
In full: hongkongfp.com/2026/09/30/na…
Photo: Screenshot via Facebook.
Interesting choice of music at the US banquet for the Chinese delegation: One Day More from Les Misérables - a song about a coming uprising…
白宫晚宴上的这一幕，《悲惨世界》经典旋律。不能不联想到背后有安排曲目的意味深长……
《Do You Hear the People Sing?》中文常译“你听见人民在歌唱”或港版填词“问谁未发声”，在2014雨伞运动和2019反修例示威中被大量传唱，大陆主流流媒体一度下架英文原曲。
香港教育部门后来禁止学校演唱带政治信息的歌曲，更著名的《愿荣光归香港》后来被法院禁制。
所以这首曲在中方官员耳朵里，应该比普通百老汇名曲更刺耳。这次现场主唱的是同一部剧里的《One Day More》，只是掺进了前一首的旋律和歌词碎片，没有把整首“人民在歌唱”完整唱出来。
这首歌在剧情中的位置，恰恰是学生革命者准备起义前夕。
没文化很可怕，也许，在礼炮与红毯之下，也深埋着嘲讽与暗喻……
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Hill investigates after F-35 parts diverted to Hong Kong dlvr.it/TVXrgC
New for @IndexCensorship: Since late August, people in Hong Kong have found they were unable to access @thecfhk website. HK's Security Bureau said I should ask ISPs and not them - the same response given when I reported HK blocking a website in 2024.
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2024 report: nitter.cf/krislc/status/18428230…
See the Hong Kong police letter to Automattic, the service provider for @flowhk in my new report:
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An American citizen has been “lured to China by official government organizations and entrapped by Chinese security services,” the State Department says. So begins the tale of another wrongfully detained foreigner in China, Myanmar scholar Min Zin. 1/4
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Macau was to start its first national security trial behind closed doors on Wednesday, in a case against a former pro-democracy lawmaker charged with subversion.
🔗 In full: hongkongfp.com/2026/09/16/ma…
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Our newly released report reveals that Hong Kong prison staff rehearsed procedures for the possibility of Jimmy Lai dying in custody and examines deaths due to medical neglect, as overcrowding, isolation, and political control continue to worsen. More:
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Where is Hong Kong journalist Minnie Chan, who disappeared three years ago in China? | RSF rsf.org/en/where-hong-kong-j…
Macau to hold closed-door trial in first national security case | AFP.com afp.com/en/macau-hold-closed…