With the national security laws now in place, Demosisto—long seen as the movement’s primary advocate for international ‘solidarity’—has disbanded, revealing the limits of the movement’s “international line” as we know it.
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Hongkongers empathize with the struggle against policing, but continue to disavow the existence of racism in Hong Kong.
ICE announced that international students will not be permitted to remain in the US if all their classes in the fall are online, affecting over 1 million international students.
Xi’s rise to power spelled the end of Chinese liberalization and marked the beginning of a brutal crackdown on Chinese activists.
With Sinophobia rising in the west, mainland Chinese international students are being denied their political agency and are not given the space or respect to offer their perspectives.
One failure will not break the union and general strike movement. We will seize every opportunity available to resist.
It is time for the Hong Kong movement to affirm its solidarity with oppressed people across the world. We have much to learn from the struggle for Black liberation.
In the latest nationalist flare up, President Trump imposed new visa restrictions on STEM graduate students and scholars from China.
China and the US are carceral states. Yet US politicians have praised resistance to police violence in Hong Kong while condoning police brutality in the name of law and order at home.
A year of solidarity among strangers, seen through the eyes of Lausan's photographer.
Hong Kong’s rising current of localism is rooted in anti-Chinese and anti-immigrant beliefs. But we must reject such bigoted ideas and remember that Hong Kong’s ongoing movement comes from the same canon of radical resistance as the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre.
Despite the severity of state violence in the US, the response from Hongkongers has been mixed. Some have completely refused to show support and have even defended Trump’s call to use military force.
