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Arne Melsom

@melsom.bsky.social
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Menneskerettigheter, mosjon, bridge. Nestleder i Hongkongkomiteen i Norge (‪ @hkc-no.bsky.social ‬). Blogger på hongkongsettfranorge.org

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Arne Melsom @melsom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I Hongkong utvider myndighetene stadig omfanget av markeringer som blir slått ned av politiet. "Kampen mot myk motstand" er det nye mantraet i Hongkongs dystopiske politistat. hongkongsettfranorge.org/2026/09/29/r...
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Regimets store frykt: Myk motstand
På lignende vis som sentralmakten undertrykker ethvert forsøk på å holde minnet om Tiananmen-massakren i live, prøver deres marionetter i Hongkong å undertrykke minnet om et politivesen som ble bru…
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Hong Kong Committee in Norway @hkc-no.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I dag møtes Trump og Xi i Washington. En rekke organisasjoner og enkeltpersoner legger ned mye arbeid for å sette Jimmy Lais grusomme situasjon på agendaen. Vi har skrevet om dette i Journalisten (@journalisten-norge.bsky.social) for et norsk publikum. www.journalisten.no/jimmy-lai-of...
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Are we human?
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Jan Arild Snoen @snoen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Olje- og dieselprisene er høye på grunn av at Putin og Trump har startet hver sin krig. Trump skylder på Ukraina som forsvarer seg.
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Patrick Poon🎐 潘嘉偉 パトリック.プーン pp@hrmi.ngo ppoon@asianlawyers.net @ppoon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
They should have never been detained. According to @rightstracker.bsky.social’s data, the expert respondents of our survey commented that Hong Kong’s empowerment rights, including freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly, are only 3.3 out of 10. rightstracker.org/country/HKG?...
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Arne Melsom @melsom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
1/2 Som eneste sted i Folkerepublikken organiserte Hongkongalliansen årlige markeringer til minne om etter protestene på Den himmelske freds plass 4. juni 1989. På fastlandet blir enhver antydning til at det skjedde noe eksepsjonelt denne dagen slått ned av sensuren.
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Badiucao巴丢草 @badiucao.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My cartoon on Far-right AfD wins key German state election The zombie of Nazi is back…
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I accidentally made a thread of videos and clips from Revolution of Our Times. Whoops.
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RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trustees of the 612 Humanitarian Fund: Cardinal Joseph Zen, barrister Margaret Ng, scholar Hui Po-keung, former lawmaker Cyd Ho, and singer-activist Denise Ho will appear in court to the verdict to their appeal announced at the HK High Court tomorrow.
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The fact this is his second NSL trial could really only be read as “we just want to lock the guy up for life”
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The HK government was so chicken shit it only dared to remove the statue at the dead of night, under the cover of darkness, just a few days before Christmas all hoping no one would notice. Pillar of Shame indeed
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Badiucao巴丢草 @badiucao.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
LAKE AMERICA My cartoon with @theage today
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RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
At least 3 activists have been detained by police outside Hong Kong's Prince Edward MTR station tonight on the anniversary of the "831 Incident", where police indiscriminately attacked passengers and activists returning from protesting on HK Island.
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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Chow Hang-tung defended herself in court, asking if shouting the slogan "end one party rule" is now a criminal offence in Hong Kong. The court’s verdict answered Yes to her question. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...
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Free Lee, Chow and all HK political prisoners!
Two former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung, were found guilty by the Hong Kong High Court on 21 August of…
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Jan Arild Snoen @snoen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Med umiddelbar effekt skal nå denne mannen omtales i alle medier og offisielle sammenhenger som Sjefsklovnen for enkelte nordamerikanske stater. TAKK FOR OPPMERKSOMHETEN I DENNE SAKEN!
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RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Good morning Hong Kong. We once again return to the West Kowloon Courts this morning for the mitigation hearing for the HK Alliance subversion trial. Court proceedings should begin shortly.
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Arne Melsom @melsom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Siste uke har det vært en debatt i Panorama Nyheter (@panoramanyheter.bsky.social) om Kinas økonomiske bånd til afrikanske land, og mulige politiske konsekvenser. Jeg savnet et viktig aspekt: menneskerettigheter. Les mitt innlegg om temaet, publisert i dag. www.panoramanyheter.no/asle-toje-de...
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Kinas innflytelse i Afrika har en pris
Debatten om Kina i Afrika i Panorama handler om gjeld og investeringer. Men hva med menneskerettighetene?
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Arne Melsom @melsom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Forslag: Norge øker bidraget til Ukraina med 1 milliard kr for hver dag cyber-angrepet pågår. www.nrk.no/artikkel/rus...
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Russisk hackergruppe hevder å stå bak dataangrep mot Norge
Digitaliseringsdirektoratet sliter med å få bukt på det pågående dataangrepet mot offentlige tjenester, som nå har pågått i tre døgn.
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Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Great context and background from @kanisleung.bsky.social on the two people convicted in Hong Kong for organising peaceful vigils over 30 years marking the massacre of protesters in Tiananmen Square, Beijing in 1989 2/2 apnews.com/article/lee-...
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What to know about the former Tiananmen vigil organizers convicted of inciting sedition in Hong Kong
Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s massive vigils to remember the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been convicted under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
To get a measure of Chow Hang-tung, read this 2022 (but still relevant) piece. "Yiu-Leung Cheung, a barrister at Harcourt Chambers, where Chow was working when she was arrested, says jail time doesn't scare her. "Her real fear is the whole world becoming indifferent to this increasing abuse"."
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SPECIAL REPORT-A jailed Hong Kong lawyer defies Beijing's campaign to subjugate the city
It was just after sunrise when the police came for Chow Hang-tung.
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Hong Kong Committee in Norway @hkc-no.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Pressemelding: Dommen mot Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan og Hongkongalliansen hongkongkomiteen.org/press-releas...
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Pressemelding fra Hongkongkomiteen i Norge: Dommen mot Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan og Hongkongalliansen — Hong Kong Committee in Norway
Pressemelding fra Hongkongkomiteen i Norge
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 21/08/2026
#HongKong Tiananmen vigil activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan have been convicted of incitement to subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law. In full: buff.ly/nljNaot Photo: Todd Darling/HKFP.
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RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The circular reasoning of the CCP writes the law, therefore the law says the CCP must stay in power; only the ones in power gets to change the law but trying to seize power away from the CCP is illegal because the law says so.
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Arne Melsom @melsom.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
For en drøy uke siden skrev en forsker fra Fridtjof Nansens Institutt (@fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social) om et kinesisk FN-initiativ. Innlegget ble publisert i DN (@dagensnaeringsliv.bsky.social). Jeg savnet forskerens kritiske blikk. Mitt svar er nå tilgjengelig. www.dn.no/innlegg/kina...
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Hva vil Kina?
Iselin Stensdal, seniorforsker i geopolitikk ved Fridtjof Nansens Institutt, skriver i DN at «Kina vil ha FN som kjernen for en regelstyrt orden, og (.) Norge er tjent med mellomstatlige ordninger som...
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Seven years ago today, 1.7 million Hongkongers tried to get onto Victoria Park's football pitches for an "authorised (by the police) assembly" and ended up going on a long, circular protest march/trudge/walk, much of it in heavy rain, to try to get in and out of the obviously too small venue. 🥹
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Patrick Poon🎐 潘嘉偉 パトリック.プーン pp@hrmi.ngo ppoon@asianlawyers.net @ppoon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Thanks The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation for publishing my blog piece on #JoshuaWong and a bit on #BennyTai thecfhk.org/defiance-and...
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Defiance and Disobedience: Joshua Wong as the Icon of Young Hong Kong Activists - The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation
This blog is authored by Patrick Poon, a former China researcher of Amnesty International and a former journalist with the
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Hong Kong Committee in Norway @hkc-no.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Vi har skrevet en artikkel på nettsidene om sommerens angrep fra myndighetene mot uavengige bokhandlere i Hongkong. hongkongkomiteen.org/we-voice-out...
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Bøker har blitt en regimetrussel i Hongkong — Hong Kong Committee in Norway
‍Før en uke hadde gått etter innføringen av Beijings sikkerhetslov for Hongkong i 2020 var jakten i gang. Bøker skrevet av opposisjonspolitikere ble fjernet fra hyllene i offentlige biblioteker. Åre...
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Anyway, HKPF’s freakout over laser pointers led to one of the most joyful silly nights of the HK pro-democracy protests 7 years ago, and gave birth to all that Star Wars iconography. Now imagine what could have been if the cops screamed boobs were weapons in 2019 too
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Jan Arild Snoen @snoen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Litt moro skal vi da ha det med Sleepy Don.
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
When you think the livelihood of your profession depends so much on backing the authoritarian govt's untrue narrative of events that you'll cheerfully throw any and all colleagues who contradict that narrative under the bus, even after they've been vindicated ...
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Arne Melsom @melsom.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
1/2 Dagens dobbel! Jeg har skrevet en bokomtale av "Når stormen kommer". Boka er skrevet av Yale-professor Odd Arne Westad, og handler om faren for en ny stormaktskrig i vår tid. En velskrevet, viktig bok som jeg kan anbefale. Les gjerne min omtale av boka! hongkongsettfranorge.org/2026/08/10/b...
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Bokomtale: Når stormen kommer
Odd Arne Westad, professor i historie ved Yale, har skrevet en viktig bok: «Når stormen kommer». Den er skrevet til alle som vil forstå verden bedre. Temaet er svært dystert, og derfor …
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Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
When I asked DeepSeek and ChatGPT in English, “Is the right to development a human right?” DeepSeek cited more Chinese official sources in its response. And while ChatGPT noted that “governments cannot invoke development to override other rights,” DeepSeek omitted that crucial point.
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The Global Danger of China’s State-Controlled AI Models
The spread of Chinese AI models with built-in censorship mechanisms could quietly shape the global information environment for the worse.
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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim of Taiwan kicked off this year's China in the World Summit in Taipei! With over 350 attendees from 75 countries, nearly 100 speakers, and more than 60 sessions over two days — the event has grown a lot over five years. Will miss being an advisory board member!
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Arne Melsom @melsom.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Norge ble ilagt USA-toll grunnet manglende regler og oppfølging mot tvangsarbeid. Utenriksministerens svar: Norge har et godt lovverk, på linje med EU, som har fått en lavere tollsats. Så enkelt er det ikke. I denne artikkelen skriver jeg om forskjellene. hongkongsettfranorge.org/2026/07/28/r...
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Regjeringens mulighetsrom
Da Norge ble ilagt USA-toll grunnet manglende regler og oppfølging mot tvangsarbeid, var utenriksministeren klar i sitt svar: Norge har et godt lovverk, på linje med EU, som har fått en lavere toll…
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Ingeborg Senneset @ingeborgsenneset.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Olaf Tufte er død, åpning av det nye 22. juli-senteret med Birgit, og et lappeteppe av bøker om terrorangrepet ingeborgsenneset.no/blogg/729660... @birgitskarstein.bsky.social #22juli #blogg
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Ooft Germany has deported a Uyghur man to China where there are concerns he could be detained as a member of an ethnic group that has been targeted by the Chinese government, his mother told The Associated Press on Wednesday
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Germany has deported a Uyghur man to China, his mother says - WTOP News
Germany has deported a Uyghur man to China where there are concerns he could be detained as a member of an ethnic group that has been targeted by the Chinese government, his mother told The Associated…
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Elmbook and Luck Win, two independent bookstores, were reportedly disqualified from taking part in this year’s book fair." Elmbook is also shutting down ops. We went there yesterday. Place was packed. We bought some books. Are they seditious books? We have no way of knowing. Don't care anyway.
Front door of Elmbook book store in Mong Kok, which will close next month after 29 years and is having a clearance sale. Photo taken July 18, 2026.

I met one of the founders when I first came to HK, so this one is personal for me.
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The EU submitted 3 papers on WTO reform in Geneva this week - much of the content aimed at China. Given that WTO reform is one of the 4 workstreams under new EU-China Trade and Investment Consultations mechanism, these seem effectively to be EU's opening negotiating position
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Really useful factsheet on the EU's China shock 2.0 from my talented colleagues on our design desk and those running the SCMP Plus subscriber product www.scmp.com/plus/ec...
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Hong Kong Committee in Norway @hkc-no.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Watch the Global Dialogues session "Responding to Authoritarian Legality and Authoritarian Trauma via Social Resilience and Legal Resistance: the Case of Hong Kong", with Mandy Lee, Eric Yan-ho Lai (@ericyhlai.bsky.social) and Kinmen Chan. youtu.be/15R-smMegNQ?...
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Eleventh Session ISA RC48 Global Conversations Series
YouTube video by ISARC48
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Ai-Men Lau 劉羿雯 @aimenlau.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Concerning development for transnational repression. “But Zang wrote that she received a phone call from Zhang the next day saying that Thai police suddenly intervened and stopped her from leaving [to resettle in Canada].”
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Activist wanted by HK reportedly blocked by Thailand from boarding Canada-bound flight
An activist wanted by Hong Kong's national security police has reportedly been blocked by Thai authorities from flying to Canada for resettlement, media has reported.
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
In Hong Kong, incompetents (or worse) gets accolades and awards; heroes and heroines jail time.
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Arne Melsom @melsom.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I etterkant av møtet med sin kinesiske kollega, møtte utenriksminister Espen Barth Eide norsk presse. Dette innlegget kritiserer såvel en tannløshet i pressens spørsmål, som Eides naive framstilling av Folkerepublikkens posisjon i internasjonal politikk. hongkongsettfranorge.org/2026/07/10/u...
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Utenriksministerens tåkelegging av Kinas ambisjoner
I etterkant av møtet med sin kinesiske kollega, møtte utenriksminister Espen Barth Eide norsk presse. Dette innlegget kritiserer såvel en tannløshet i pressens spørsmål, som Eides naive framstillin…
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Arne Melsom @melsom.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
1/2 Urovekkende ofte framstilles Kina som en potensiell leder for en regelstyrt verdensorden. Denne oppfatningen forutsetter manglende innsikt i hvordan Beijing undergraver denne ordenen. I dag publiserer Aftenposten et innlegg jeg har skrevet om dette. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
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Feier realitetene om Kina under teppet
Kina bryter folkeretten, presser kritikere økonomisk og støtter Russlands krigføring. Da blir det feil at Aftenposten omtaler landet som en forsvarer av en regelbasert verdensorden.
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Arne Melsom @melsom.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I forbindelse med Wang Yis Oslo-besøk diskuterte #dax18 loven om "etnisk enhet" i Kina. Norsk-kinesiske relasjoner ble også drøftet mer generelt. Mye mer kunne vært sagt om loven. Og én påstand i debatten svært lite veloverveid. Her er min kommentar. hongkongsettfranorge.org/2026/07/08/n...
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-Norge fører en naivistisk Kina-politikk
I Dagsnytt 18-sendingen 6. juli ble en ny kinesisk lov om etnisk enhet diskutert, med særlig oppmerksomhet på hvordan kinesiske myndigheter arbeider for å undertrykke diasporaens ytringsrom. Statss…
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Badiucao巴丢草 @badiucao.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Art for Lobga Rangzen 52-year-old Tibetan activist On July 2, 2026, he died after an act of self-immolation outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Lobga Rangzen's Final Statement: 「Long live the independence of the Tibetan nation!」
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Hong Kong Committee in Norway @hkc-no.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Expressen har publisert en viktig kommentar av Angela Gui som blottlegger hvilket skrekkregime den besøkende Wang Yi representerer. Hennes far Gui Minhai ble kidnappet i Thailand i 2016. Hverken hun eller svenske myndigheter har hatt kontakt med ham de siste 8 årene. www.expressen.se/kultur/var-a...
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ANGELA GUI: Var är min far, Wang Yi?
Kinas utrikesminister Wang Yi besöker under sommaren Sverige.  Angela Gui, dotter till Gui Minhai, vill ha svar på var hennes far är.
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Arne Melsom @melsom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Kina innførte en ny lov på onsdag for å legalisere forfølgelse av etniske grupper, og åpner for global maktutøvelse. I går publiserte Klassekampen et innlegg jeg skrev med Uighurkomiteen og Tibetkomitéen. (KK legger leserinnlegg bak betalingsmur, åpent her.) hongkongsettfranorge.org/2026/07/03/k...
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Kinas ambisjoner om global maktutøvelse
1. juli trådte en ny lov om “etnisk enhet” i kraft i Kina. Loven legger nye juridiske rammer for kommunistpartiets pågående tvangsassimilasjon av ikke-kinesiske folkegrupper. Loven skal kvele motst…
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Not a great time to be a flower seller in HK, where flowers are sedition when the police decide they are sedition.
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 19/06/2026
Record haul for HKFP at SOPA journalism awards 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/06/19/r...
SOPA wins
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Eye-opening findings in Bertelsmann Stiftung survey on the eve of EU leaders debate on China 77% in the EU feel their countries need to reduce dependency on China "even if it hurt your economy in the short term", including 80% in Germany, 84% in France, 72% in Spain
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