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Human Rights Watch @hrw @hrw_chinese is reporting that this girl detained at 14 by #Xinjiang authorities in 2017 has died in custody at age 23. Why?! What happened to her? PM Carney needs to ask & Xi needs to answer. @YalkunUluyol @Uyghuradvocacy
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Thank you, @emily4MK, for speaking up for #FreeJoshuaWong and asking whether the government will sanction the Hong Kong officials responsible for National Security Law prosecutions.
Almost 2,000 political prisoners jailed in Hong Kong, including British citizen #FreeJimmyLai, and not a single official sanctioned by the U.K. What gives?
Where are the consequences for spying on British parliamentarians and imprisoning pro-democracy Hong Kongers?
What will it take for the British government to summon the Chinese ambassador?
The British government promised to shield Hong Kongers' freedoms and quest for democracy when it signed the Sino-British Declaration; it’s let Hong Kongers down just as badly as Beijing.
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Today I secured an Urgent Question in the @HouseofCommons following deeply disturbing reports that China has obtained the personal phone records and financial information of MPs sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party. This is not simply a matter of national security: the Government seems to be missing the point. This is about individual MPs being targeted by a hostile foreign state for speaking out against its actions.
What does the Government know about the information China already holds on us? How much more are they trying to gather? And why on earth have we not been told? It isn't just us. Our families are sanctioned too. I have a family member living abroad, and I am deeply concerned about their safety.
Since these revelations emerged on Sunday, not one security official has contacted any of us. Why weren't we taken aside and warned? We have a right to speak freely in Parliament without fear of intimidation by Beijing. Frankly, this is not good enough and the Government needs to start answering these questions. @10DowningStreet @ukhomeoffice
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Although at this point there is no evidence that national security or proprietary information was compromised, Ministers shouldn’t wait for Washington to work through the fallout.
For the sake of our national security, they should be asking what has Nvidia lobbied for here, who had access, and whether those meetings were properly recorded and scrutinised.
This is not to lay blame, but a sensible, swift response is needed in the face of hostile actions.
The reality is that our country is overwhelmed with economic honeytraps.
The rise of social media has made it easier than ever, and those who have access to information and officials must take adequate precautions.
These conversations might be awkward, but they are necessary to protect our country.
Huang’s honey trap is a warning: China’s MSS will stop at nothing in gaining business and military supremacy.
Who is next?
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
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The Chinese Communist Party commissioned the collection of kompromat on MPs.
The Government decided not to tell MPs or even the Speaker.
Utterly unacceptable.
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Rahile Omer, a young woman who died in a Chinese prison this month following years of unjust imprisonment.
May her memory be a blessing but also a stark reminder of the extreme human rights abuses being inflicted on the Uyghur people.
Stunning artwork from @lumli_lumlong
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SCOOP: Footage obtained from the Nvidia board investigation
We just issued a press release from our board of directors. Read the release: nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/s…
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I really want Taipei to have a mayor named Puma.
But also, if he wins, Xi will lose his shit and increase the intensity of China’s grey zone warfare against Taiwan and Taiwanese people. Good opportunity for cybersecurity and defense startups to test their new stuff.
Beijing sanctioned him, opened a criminal case against him, and went after his father’s company. Now Puma Shen might win Taipei, a city that has been a stronghold of the China-friendly KMT (“blue”) for nearly 30 years.
Puma Shen, 44, is the DPP’s candidate for Taipei mayor. Before politics he was a criminology professor who studied Chinese information warfare. He co-founded Doublethink Lab, which tracks Chinese disinformation, and Kuma Academy, which trains ordinary people in civil defense. In other words, he built a career exposing exactly what Beijing does to Taiwan.
That is why China treats him as a target. He was named a “diehard Taiwan independence separatist” in 2024, and a Chongqing police bureau opened a “secession” investigation in 2025. His family has faced sanctions on their business, death threats, and doxxing. The message is aimed at everyone watching: this is what happens to those who study and expose us.
Here is what makes this race unusual. Taipei hasn’t elected a DPP mayor since Chen Shui-bian in the 1990s. Shen was seen as a long shot. Then came the “Ocean Wave” movement, with ship-themed campaign trucks, big rallies, and strong support among younger voters. He shifted the campaign toward housing, childcare, and transport, while keeping his China credentials. Polls swung from double-digit deficits to a lead or a tight race, depending on the survey.
Why Beijing should worry: Taipei’s mayor is a national stage. Winning the capital would make him the DPP’s first mayor there in almost three decades, and a figure with a national profile. Cross-strait policy is set by the central government, so he couldn’t rewrite it from city hall. But he’d be a symbol that a man Beijing tried to isolate can be rewarded by voters.
His own take, from a November 6 Reuters interview: “Even if Chiang Wan-an got elected, it’s also a slap to China. Because we proved that democracy works here in Taiwan and we’re not interfered with by China.”
The vote is November 28. The race is competitive, and the outcome is not settled.
The candidate Beijing tried hardest to silence is now the one making the most noise.
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So why are you allowing this?
“In recent months, at least a dozen Hong Kong citizens who are in the U.S. with the protected status have been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Several were arrested at airports while trying to board domestic flights. Other Hong Kong citizens with different statuses have also been detained. Some say they were coerced into signing statements promising to voluntarily leave the country. Most, if not all, have been released by immigration judges but have been forced to wear ankle monitoring bracelets and restricted from traveling.”
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Another angle on this whole Nvidia-Megaspeed thing is this - this case is yet another reason why, for all of Hong Kong’s relative decline, Singapore has not been able to take full advantage. Why choose Singapore when it turns out to be no better than Hong Kong as an espionage and sanctions busting hub? If anything, one might say Singapore is worse - at least with Hong Kong we now know what it is and thus be overtly cautious about it, but with Singapore’s political and financial class constantly wanting to play both sides, one never knows what one is going to get with Singapore.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to affair with China spy who ran Megaspeed, which diverted Nvidia chips to China.
Culper Research nailed it back in May:
“$NVDA vouches for Megaspeed - its largest SEA chip buyer, under U.S. and Singapore investigation - as having no Chinese ownership and free of diversion concerns.”
“$NVDA claims its China business went to "zero" after April 2025 U.S. trade restrictions. We believe that in reality, over 20% of Nvidia's FY 2026 compute revenues remained driven by China via illegal GPU diversion and Southeast Asian intermediaries.” nitter.gq/CulperResearch/status/…
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ICYMI: Joshua Wong is a hero of our times. His incarceration - now for an extra 10 years - is a sign of Beijing's brutal attack on free speech in this once free city.
@frances_hui wrote for Index about her friend.
indexoncensorship.org/2026/0…
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Minulý týden jsem se vrátil z pracovní cesty na Taiwan. A víte, co je pikantní? Že už během doby, kdy jsem tam byl, mi přišel email z mise Čínské lidové republiky při EU. V mailu se píše, že mám ctít "princip jedné Číny" - v podstatě šlo o výhrůžku, co mám jako jezdit na Taiwan.
Takové pokusy o nátlak zcela odmítám. Na Taiwan jsem jel proto, že kultivuju vztahy s těmi, a nimiž je to vzájemně výhodné. Z čínských investic v Česku zůstaly jen sliby.
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I am sure completely unrelated to the fact he was having an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, but do we all remember NVIDIA obtaining permission to sell chips to a shell company in China? Or heavy lobbying against any and all export restrictions?
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Policing 101, French edition:
The use of force must be necessary to the achievement of a legitimate aim, and proportionate to achievement of that aim (i.e. the least force required).
I don't think dislike of the flute qualifies.
@NaomiOhReally @Mediapart
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OHCHR don't work weekends. Newsflash: I, Miranda Brown, Anders Kompass and other #whistleblowers did. Because if someone is about to be executed for their politics, children are about to be raped or protestors about to be beaten, we cared.
We were fired. So OHCHR lacks capacity.
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Hong Kong is not far and the events of 2019 are not very distant, yet there are many in Taiwan who have already forgotten about Wong and other activists like him
"The Country That Has Forgotten Joshua Wong" by @brianhioe
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On the 7th anniversary of the death of #HongKong protester Chow Tsz-lok during the 2019 protests, 2 people went to the site of his fatal fall in Sheung Tak car park, Tseung Kwan O to mourn for him, under close observation by police.
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After January’s massacre in Iran, critics of the regime faced rejection in the West.
A Canadian editor told Iranian dissidents “speaking won’t help anyone”, while a US editor argued “the greater good” was “the defeat of Zionism and imperialism”.
🔗indexoncensorship.org/2026/1…
