Does Bergoglio Have His Back?

Bishop Stephen Chow of Hong Kong is in Beijing for a five day visit. But what can he achieve, and who, if anyone, has his back?https://t.co/7NV6ImVKoJ

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) April 17, 2023

What Happened to Zhao Wei?

Cancel culture Sino-style. @bariweiss @McCormickProf "Zhao’s disappearing act was far more thorough: overnight, she was erased from the internet. Her Weibo social media page, with its 86 million followers, went offline, as did fan sites dedicated to her. https://t.co/GyRebLhVrw

— PCampbell1234 (@PCampbellBaylor) October 26, 2021

China on the Rise?

They want to fight because they think they’ll win.

“Combat was formerly seen as a threat to the Party’s hold on power. China’s military was not in a position to win…Now it is perceived as a way to strengthen the CCP’s position.” https://t.co/UWonHwJLmi

— Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) October 20, 2021

Han Pride

Three astronauts, including a woman, will enter the China Space Station to perform a six-month mission in space. pic.twitter.com/CuutW8YtFj

— 海岸猎人32（SFAC） (@shuixiang32) October 15, 2021

“China Just Announced That It's Sending the First Humans to Mars” https://t.co/KOAzGud1Qr

— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) October 13, 2021

A Heavy-Handed Response by the CCP

"The account of Chinese male blogger Feng Xiaoyi was removed from Douyin, the Chinese version TikTok, Tuesday after numerous netizens commented that his videos were too 'feminine' and lacked of 'masculinity.'"

Based https://t.co/3qjZsxhikj

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) September 12, 2021

The Cooperation to Make Vaccine Passports a Reality

The document was funded by Bill Gates and the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation has also established an NGO called “The Commons Project” that supports its own version of a digital vaccine passport, called “common pass.”https://t.co/qjzwyPh34Q

— 'Sikh For Truth'. (@SikhForTruth) September 6, 2021

Paternalism is Statism

According to an announcement from Xinhua – the CN government's official news agency – game time will be monitored by a govmt-run "real-name verification system," and companies will be forced to link that information to payment methods for tracking purposes. (Stansberry Research) pic.twitter.com/SdsvkTxQbN

— A-is-A (@Alpha_Qua_Alpha) September 1, 2021

Reject video games; return to mortar practice in elementary school. pic.twitter.com/oo2EcYb3pE

— Yuan Yi Zhu (@yuanyi_z) August 30, 2021

Xi Jinping's new multi-front war: ethnic minorities must become more Chinese, capitalists must become more socialist, and youth must stop aping sissy 娘炮" stars to become manly, virile(!). Not a fool: a post-Kabul weaker America reduces the rationale for dictatorship in China

— Edward N Luttwak (@ELuttwak) August 31, 2021

Will Japan Bolster It's Military Capability?

Will Taiwan?

Excellent analysis by my friend @GotoEastAsia explaining why Japan is beefing up its own security and how it's not all about American pressure to do so. https://t.co/sFVuGKDfIy

— Kelley Beaucar Vlahos (@VlahosAtQuincy) August 26, 2021

Save Our Land

NEW: "What does it say about our nation that 30 million acres of our farmland are foreign-owned? If we believe in sovereignty, we should protect it from the ground up—literally—by preserving the sanctity of American-owned soil." https://t.co/jqzrf9p5g7

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) August 6, 2021

Lord Have Mercy!

Bishop Joseph Zhang Weizhu’s whereabouts are still unknown months after Chinese officials detained him with clergy and seminarians who object to joining the Chinese government’s official Catholic organization. https://t.co/KAG1DSuThq

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) August 5, 2021

Sanctuary for HKers

‘Democracy has dimmed’: Washington offers Hongkongers in the US ‘safe haven’ https://t.co/2m6xpPVYHP pic.twitter.com/u00pHDt571

— Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (@hkfp) August 5, 2021

Through @POTUS Biden’s direction of Deferred Enforced Departure, we are offering a safe haven in the United States to those who fear returning to Hong Kong. We stand with the people of Hong Kong and will continue to stand up for the human rights and freedoms they are guaranteed.

— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) August 5, 2021

Good Luck

Hong Kong’s new bishop says he wants to bring unity. Here’s why are local Catholics divided: https://t.co/suVtdSAbu4

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) July 28, 2021

Meanwhile...

Priests thrown into jail for resisting Francis’s deal with Beijing. Again, curious to read @Vermeullarmine’s reaction. https://t.co/yVKmiyt0X7

— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) July 28, 2021

Basically the Chinese Communist Party *is* the Catholic Church in China, thanks to the same despicable Pope who’s just suppressed out ancient liturgy. And some people still call this wretched man the ‘Holy Father’. https://t.co/XC2IyPterw

— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) July 28, 2021

This is Francis’s fault. What a wicked man he is. https://t.co/8LK0prG1VI

— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) July 28, 2021

Video Rendering of a Possible Failure of the Three Gorges Dam

Watchhttps://t.co/6jCmxbmvFa

— Kyle (@home_grown_sanc) July 13, 2021

CCP Consolidating Control Over Hong Kong

China's Guangdong province said it plans to build a common data platform for the Greater Bay Area that includes Hong Kong and Macau, and will build a data trading market in Shenzhen - part of efforts to regulate data more thoroughly https://t.co/TXAWA8IKiA pic.twitter.com/wTBnx5jSE8

— Reuters (@Reuters) July 12, 2021

Lord Have Mercy

[Recap] Security law: Dozens of Hong Kong democrats face further months in custody as case adjourned to September 23https://t.co/MU0wm8f9nd

— Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (@hkfp) July 9, 2021

Raging Fire Trailer

Can someone watch this movie without associating the HKPF with the CCP? Can one accept a "heroic image" of the HKPF in movies? I can't.

CCP Trying to Undo Their Mistakes

China Doesn't Like That I'm a Single Woman, Here's Why | Op-Docs https://t.co/Ic4TlxszOx via @YouTube

— Ken🙂 (@RoodGridance) July 4, 2021

Sad

The Crackdown Continues

Alice Wong of Student Politicism and three people were escorted to a police vehicle after they were stopped at a newspaper stall outside Langham Place in Mong Kok. https://t.co/SZD87yAcUg pic.twitter.com/XFn07jLhPp

— Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (@hkfp) July 1, 2021

Unfit for Republican Self-Government

this is traditional chinese culture

it was reported in the early 2000s that the Yi are notably overrepresented in the PLA special forces. ethnic stats must exist but aren't readily accessible pic.twitter.com/ThlJCMydMy

— Zolbar Sakusun (@ZolbarSakusun) June 28, 2021

Chairman Xi: “The Chinese people will never allow any outside force to bully, oppress or subjugate us. Anyone who attempts to do so will be battered before the iron Great Wall built with the flesh & blood of over 1.4 billion Chinese people” pic.twitter.com/P1QFff5Ha6

— Iron Great Wall of Poso (@JackPosobiec) July 1, 2021