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Sharp Power on Vatincan by China: Joseph HA Chi-shing, sympathist of the Anti-ELAB movement, is set aside; Holy See changes decision and appoints Peter CHOY Wai-man to be Hong Kong’s next bishop 2/2
(18 Jan) The position of Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong is still vacant since The Most Reverend Michael YEUNG Ming-cheung passed away in January last year. Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported yesterday that the Holy See had originally intended to appoint Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ha Chi-shing to be the new bishop, to which Pope Francis agreed. However, Ha’s public support of the Anti-ELAB movement placed political pressure on Vatican City. It finally changed its mind and appointed the more pro-China Peter Choy Wai-man.
CNA claimed that the new appointment was approved by the Holy See. Choy is one of the four vicars general of the Diocese of Hong Kong. He has a close relationship with His Eminence Cardinal John Tong Hon and good rapport with the Chinese government. Choy had met with Carrie Lam during the height of the protests. Fearing backlash, Tong suggested that the Holy See postpone the announcement of Choy’s appointment.
A senior priest in Hong Kong told CNA that Choy was a “pro-Beijing hawk” and an “enemy of the retired Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun SDB”. Another Hong Kong priest opined that the Holy See’s decision on the appointment reflects its betrayal of its faithful followers to please China.
Source: Stand News
https://bit.ly/38k1c8V
#Church #BowToChina #SharpPower #Vatican
Sharp Power on Vatincan by China: Joseph HA Chi-shing, sympathist of the Anti-ELAB movement, is set aside; Holy See changes decision and appoints Peter CHOY Wai-man to be Hong Kong’s next bishop 2/2
(18 Jan) The position of Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong is still vacant since The Most Reverend Michael YEUNG Ming-cheung passed away in January last year. Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported yesterday that the Holy See had originally intended to appoint Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ha Chi-shing to be the new bishop, to which Pope Francis agreed. However, Ha’s public support of the Anti-ELAB movement placed political pressure on Vatican City. It finally changed its mind and appointed the more pro-China Peter Choy Wai-man.
CNA claimed that the new appointment was approved by the Holy See. Choy is one of the four vicars general of the Diocese of Hong Kong. He has a close relationship with His Eminence Cardinal John Tong Hon and good rapport with the Chinese government. Choy had met with Carrie Lam during the height of the protests. Fearing backlash, Tong suggested that the Holy See postpone the announcement of Choy’s appointment.
A senior priest in Hong Kong told CNA that Choy was a “pro-Beijing hawk” and an “enemy of the retired Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun SDB”. Another Hong Kong priest opined that the Holy See’s decision on the appointment reflects its betrayal of its faithful followers to please China.
Source: Stand News
https://bit.ly/38k1c8V
#Church #BowToChina #SharpPower #Vatican
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Swedish Former Representative to European Parliament: China Should Apologize to the World for Coronavirus
In an opinion article published by a Swedish newspaper on 19
March, 2020, Gunnar Hökmark, Chairman of Stockholm Free World Forum and Former member of the European parliament, asks the Chinese Communist Party government and its leader to apologize to the world for withholding information of the coronavirus and "using its economic power, systematically threatens democratic countries in order to destabilize and silence criticism".
From China's imprisonment of Swedish citizen Gui Minhai (bookseller in Hong Kong) to Chinese tourists' behaviour, Hökmark wrote that:
"The aggressive Chinese attacks on Sweden for our handling of the Coronavirus should be seen against the fact that the Chinese Communist Party wants to escape all kind of responsibility for the spread of the epidemic.
Lousy animal husbandry and poor food standards, along with fear of the dictatorship and its culture of silence, are the main reasons why the world is presently wrestling with a terrible global pandemic. Its background lies in the inability of a totalitarian system to take people's perceptions, security and life into account. It is not Sweden or Europe that is the problem in all this. It's China.
And it is China that, using its economic power, systematically threatens democratic countries in order to destabilize and silence criticism.
On Radio Sweden, the Chinese propaganda attack was incomprehensibly described as something very sharp and because of that worth listening to. They neglected that this is how the Communist regime for a long time has acted against Sweden, among other democracies.
We saw the same pattern of denials and false accusations when Iran shot down the Ukrainian passenger plane and when Russian air defense units in Ukraine shot down the airplane MH17."
Source: Expressen, (19-Mar)
https://www.expressen.se/debatt/china-should-apologize-to-the-world-for-corona/
Independent Journalist Condemns China’s misinformation and manipulation of data, calling the pandemic a “Jin-ping Coronavirus”
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/19336
#Sweden #ChinesePropaganda #CCP #SharpPower #Censorship
Swedish Former Representative to European Parliament: China Should Apologize to the World for Coronavirus
In an opinion article published by a Swedish newspaper on 19
March, 2020, Gunnar Hökmark, Chairman of Stockholm Free World Forum and Former member of the European parliament, asks the Chinese Communist Party government and its leader to apologize to the world for withholding information of the coronavirus and "using its economic power, systematically threatens democratic countries in order to destabilize and silence criticism".
From China's imprisonment of Swedish citizen Gui Minhai (bookseller in Hong Kong) to Chinese tourists' behaviour, Hökmark wrote that:
"The aggressive Chinese attacks on Sweden for our handling of the Coronavirus should be seen against the fact that the Chinese Communist Party wants to escape all kind of responsibility for the spread of the epidemic.
Lousy animal husbandry and poor food standards, along with fear of the dictatorship and its culture of silence, are the main reasons why the world is presently wrestling with a terrible global pandemic. Its background lies in the inability of a totalitarian system to take people's perceptions, security and life into account. It is not Sweden or Europe that is the problem in all this. It's China.
And it is China that, using its economic power, systematically threatens democratic countries in order to destabilize and silence criticism.
On Radio Sweden, the Chinese propaganda attack was incomprehensibly described as something very sharp and because of that worth listening to. They neglected that this is how the Communist regime for a long time has acted against Sweden, among other democracies.
We saw the same pattern of denials and false accusations when Iran shot down the Ukrainian passenger plane and when Russian air defense units in Ukraine shot down the airplane MH17."
Source: Expressen, (19-Mar)
https://www.expressen.se/debatt/china-should-apologize-to-the-world-for-corona/
Independent Journalist Condemns China’s misinformation and manipulation of data, calling the pandemic a “Jin-ping Coronavirus”
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/19336
#Sweden #ChinesePropaganda #CCP #SharpPower #Censorship
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OPINION: China should apologize to the world for corona
China's leaders should apologize now. Apologize to the world for epidemics coming from China because of the dictatorship's failure to address food safety, animal standards, and because its repression of truth and the freedom of its own citizens, writes Gunnar…
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Rumors of actor Alex Mak was ordered by TVB to stop working due to participation of Hong Kong pro-democracy movement
(14 May)Hong Kong police have been accused of abusing its power and conducting indiscriminate arrests during the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong in 2019, also known as the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement.
So far, nearly 8,000 people have been arrested. Of the arrested, one of them is 26-year-old up-and-coming TV actor Hoi Ching (Alex) Mak, according to Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily. He was reportedly arrested at the end of 2019 after participating in one of the protests.
Mak is employed by local pro-establishment TV station TVB. It is said that TVB has stopped all of Mak’s work following the arrest. Mak was not seen in the promotion of a recently aired TVB show, in which he is one of the actors. Mak decided to return to his hometown in France after being suppressed by the company due to his political views.
Mak was one of the favorite actors of TVB’s top management team, headed by Yee Ling (Virginia) Lok and Wing Shan (Sandy) Yue. Following his arrest, Mak’s dense working schedule was quickly cancelled by TVB.
Mak’s colleagues at TVB were surprised by his sudden departure.
There are reports that TVB has issued a gag order to forbid the few people who are familiar with the matter to say much.
Mak was actively posting promo videos and photos relating to the latest TVB show he participated in before his employer took him out of all promotional work. He disappeared from Instagram for around three months.
Recently, Alex posted a selfie on his social media platform. In the photo, he wore sunglasses without expression. The caption was: "Take a break. Take a look."
Online comments from his fans included: "You left TVB?", " Why you been gone so long?"
Source: Apple Daily News
https://bit.ly/2T6KKUy
#AlexMak #TVB #WhiteTerror #Censorship #SharpPower #HumanRights #Freedom #AntiELAB
Rumors of actor Alex Mak was ordered by TVB to stop working due to participation of Hong Kong pro-democracy movement
(14 May)Hong Kong police have been accused of abusing its power and conducting indiscriminate arrests during the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong in 2019, also known as the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement.
So far, nearly 8,000 people have been arrested. Of the arrested, one of them is 26-year-old up-and-coming TV actor Hoi Ching (Alex) Mak, according to Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily. He was reportedly arrested at the end of 2019 after participating in one of the protests.
Mak is employed by local pro-establishment TV station TVB. It is said that TVB has stopped all of Mak’s work following the arrest. Mak was not seen in the promotion of a recently aired TVB show, in which he is one of the actors. Mak decided to return to his hometown in France after being suppressed by the company due to his political views.
Mak was one of the favorite actors of TVB’s top management team, headed by Yee Ling (Virginia) Lok and Wing Shan (Sandy) Yue. Following his arrest, Mak’s dense working schedule was quickly cancelled by TVB.
Mak’s colleagues at TVB were surprised by his sudden departure.
There are reports that TVB has issued a gag order to forbid the few people who are familiar with the matter to say much.
Mak was actively posting promo videos and photos relating to the latest TVB show he participated in before his employer took him out of all promotional work. He disappeared from Instagram for around three months.
Recently, Alex posted a selfie on his social media platform. In the photo, he wore sunglasses without expression. The caption was: "Take a break. Take a look."
Online comments from his fans included: "You left TVB?", " Why you been gone so long?"
Source: Apple Daily News
https://bit.ly/2T6KKUy
#AlexMak #TVB #WhiteTerror #Censorship #SharpPower #HumanRights #Freedom #AntiELAB