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Australia’s Visa Extension for Hongkongers: Media Analyses the Possibility of Chinese Communist Party's Infiltration and Names Prominent Hong Kong Officials with Family Members Residing in Australia
 
Following Australia’s announcement in offering “safe haven” to Hongkongers, Australian security experts and Hongkongers living in Australia have expressed concerns over Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials and their supporters or family members obtaining residency through the policy, urging the Australian government to review applications stringently.
 
Hong Kong Pro-China Officials and Their Family Members Might Seize the Opportunity to Obtain Australian Residency
 
The Hong Kong National Security Law has sparked international concern.  Australia is expressly against the new law and has plans to offer “safe haven” to Hongkongers by extending their visas for a maximum of 5 years and offering opportunities to apply for permanent residency.  Some Australian nationals and immigrants from Hong Kong are worried that the new policy might give a pathway for families of CCP and HKSAR officials, the Hong Kong Police Force and their families or even CCP spies to obtain permanent residency.  The national newspaper The Australian has pointed out that Hong Kong’s Education Secretary Yeung Yun-hung, who has been leading efforts in censoring school textbooks, and Tam Yiu-chung, the only Hong Kong politician involved in the reviewing process of the national security law, both have family members residing in Australia.  Yeung’s son and daughter are both students in Australia, while Tam’s son is already an Australian citizen.
 
Hongkonger-Australians: We Don’t Want Oppressors to become Our Neighbours  
 
In an interview with the local media, Jane Poon, a spokesperson for an organisation of Hongkongers living in Australia called Australia-Hong Kong Link, talked about how it was a known fact that many Chinese nationals continue to serve the interest of China after obtaining permanent residency in Australia.  She stressed that many Hongkonger-Australians would like to urge the Australian government to consider conducting checks on political backgrounds, “A great number of Hongkonger-Australians still have family ties in Hong Kong.  They do not wish to see their oppressors making their way to Australia, or even becoming their neighbours.”
 
Source: Stand News #Jul14
 
Further reading:
Chinese Australians warn of sleeper agents
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/23508

Climate Change Is Not a Reason to Give China a Pass on Human Rights

In a widely-publicized July 8 letter, four dozen American advocacy groups—including the Sunrise Movement and the Union of Concerned Scientists—demanded that President Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats reverse their “antagonistic posture” in favor of a more cooperative relationship with Beijing to “combat the climate crisis.” The signatories also attempted to frame the current administration’s China approach as a surrender to pressure on the right that’s counterproductive to global governance as well as responsible for xenophobia against individuals of East and Southeast Asian descent, and therefore “doing nothing to actually support the wellbeing of everyday people in either China or the United States.”

Source: Slate Magazine #Jul14

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/07/china-climate-change-democracy-human-rights.html

#Climate #China #HumanRights #JoeBiden

The US Grants Funds to Help Companies Replacing Chinese Corporate Communications Equipment

The US Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved the allocation of US$1.9 billion to subsidize US companies to replace equipment provided by Chinese telecommunications companies.

The funding aims to subsidize the removal of related communication equipment in rural areas of the United States. The number of customers of eligible companies must be less than 10 million, and the replacement equipment must be purchased before the end of June last year to apply for funding.

Last year, the committee determined that Huawei and ZTE constitute a national security threat to the US communications network. American companies cannot use government funding to purchase equipment from Huawei or ZTE. It refers to the high risk of equipment being controlled by external parties and stipulates that companies must destroy and remove their equipment.

Source : i-Cable #Jul14

https://bit.ly/3x3ZMv8

#UnitedStates #US #China #Huawei #ZTE #Telecommunication #GovernmentSpending

One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps

On long car trips, we usually passed the time with conversation. But it was hard to talk about anything besides what was happening.

The Chinese government’s mass internment of Uyghurs was in full swing. This campaign had begun in Kashgar, Khotan, and other predominantly Uyghur parts of southern Xinjiang. Now it had reached Urumqi, the regional capital, where our acquaintances were regularly disappearing. Every day, hundreds of Uyghurs who had moved here over the decades—finding work, starting families, buying houses, coming to consider themselves locals—had been shipped out to concentration camps known as “study centers.” Nearly everyone I knew from the labor camp where I’d been imprisoned two decades earlier had already been rearrested. My turn would clearly come soon.

Source: The Atlantic #Jul14

https://t.co/Vr27Od8fHX

#China #Uyghur #Kashgar #Khotan