Men in white in North Point surrounded and started kicking this man who had yelled that the men in white were attacking people. #antiELABhk
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Lily Kuo
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Lily Kuo
@lilkuo
China correspondent for @nytimes, former China bureau chief for @washingtonpost @guardian, previously with @qz in Nairobi, Hong Kong, NYC. [email protected]
Joined July 2008
- A reporter from NBC said a police officer grabbed her breast at a protest on Sunday. When she asked other officers at the scene to give his id number she was pepper sprayed in the face.
- Students at Ying Wa boys college stood outside in the pouring rain starting at 7am as they started a two day class boycott. #HongKongProtests
00:00 - The Communist Youth League of China on its official Weibo account called the protests on Capitol Hill the most "beautiful site to behold," mocking Nancy Pelosi's description of demonstrations in Hong Kong in 2019.
- Letters from Chinese dissidents to Hong Kong protesters. "Our actions are like throwing an egg against a rock .Although eggs are weak they have within them life. There will be a day when we push down that wall. I believe the final victory belongs to us."
- Zhong Jinxing, 32, a doctor in Guangxi has died from 'overwork' after 33 consecutive days in virus 'control and prevention.' On Feb 28, a coworker knocked down his dorm door and found him. He was reportedly married and had a 6 yr old daughter. thepaper.cn/newsDetail_for…
- This protest poster paying homage to Hong Kong’s vintage neon signs is one of the best I’ve seen. Slogans ‘reclaim Hong Kong’ and ‘five demands, not one less’ up in lights.
- I spoke to Cai Xia, former Central Party School professor who was expelled from the party on Monday. “Under the regime of Xi, the CCP is not a force for progress for China. It is an obstacle. I believe I am not the only one who wants to leave this party."
- A lot of the ‘Wuhan coming out of lockdown’ today felt like part of a PR stunt. Cycling around Wuchang the roads were still quiet and most shops closed. Residents say they are still worried. “The situation is not as good as what is being reported.” theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
00:00 - The Guardian did a callout asking Hong Kongers to share their feelings about the national security law. In just a few days, we got more than 30,000 messages - the most any call out the paper has done has ever gotten. Here are some of them:
- Incredibly excited to be joining the Washington Post to cover China at such an important and uncertain time, working with the excellent @gerryshih and @evadou.
- Cars in Wuhan started lining up before midnight when the highways open and people can leave the city.
00:00 - Was told by this hotel in Shanghai @FraserSuitesSG that they are not accepting US citizens and 20 other nationalities, regardless of recent travel. I asked the woman at front desk what she would think if US hotels had blanket banned Chinese people. She just laughed uncomfortably.
- Hong Kong activists waiting to be arrested under the security law. @joshuawongcf: 'Every night I go to sleep thinking I might be sent to China the next day.” Lee Cheuk-yan: 'It’s now our turn to become dissidents. I just hope they’ll jail me in Hong Kong.'
