Xi’s rise to power spelled the end of Chinese liberalization and marked the beginning of a brutal crackdown on Chinese activists.
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The national security laws not only criminalize dissent of all kinds but also marks the premature end of Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy and the One Country, Two Systems' agreement it had in place.
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.
The attack on Sunrise Movement’s collaboration with a Hong Kong activist forwarding the claim that the entire Hong Kong movement is aligned with Trump and Republicans stems from a racist logic that strips Hong Kong protesters of their political agency.
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.
The US’s restriction of visas for Chinese journalists is a blow to press freedom yet its fallout has been largely overlooked in the mainstream media.
