A doctoral law student from mainland China has been charged with planning to display publicly a large “Pillar of Shame” banner in Hong Kong, and she has pleaded guilty to a charge of “attempting to commit or prepare to commit an act with seditious intent.” She appeared at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court on Sept. 11 and will be sentenced by Judge Peter Law Tak-chuen the following day. The defendant remains in custody. According to the case, the defendant, Zeng Yuxuan (23 years old), received a 9-meter (29.52 feet) by 3-meter (9.84 feet) banner showing the “Pillar of Shame” with the words “The Tiananmen Massacre June 4th, 1989; The old cannot kill the young forever” on its base, from mainland Chinese pro-democracy activist Zhou Fengsuo in May. On June 1, when the police searched her residence, they found a 1.5-meter (4.92 feet) by 0.6-meter (1.96 feet) “Pillar of Shame” banner hanging in her apartment....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/mainland-student-charged-with-sedition-for-planning-to-display-pillar-of-shame-in-hong-kong-5490576
The White House on Sept. 13 raised concerns about reports that Beijing ordered civil servants at some government agencies to stop bringing Apple’s iPhones to the offices. “We’re watching this with concern,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters during a briefing on Wednesday. “Clearly, it seems to be of a piece of the kinds of aggressive and inappropriate retaliation to U.S. companies that we’ve seen from the PRC in the past,” said Mr. Kirby, referring to China’s official name, the People’s Republic of China. “The truth is, we don’t have perfect visibility on exactly what they’re doing and why.”...
Elon Musk drew a stern rebuke from Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for asserting that Taiwan was an “integral part of China” and likening the self-ruling island to China’s Hawaii. Beijing’s policy “has been to reunite Taiwan with China,” he said in a live-streamed speech at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles earlier this week, adding that as an outsider of China, he “understand[s] China well,” having met with the “senior leadership at many levels of China for many years.” “From their standpoint, maybe it’s analogous to Hawaii or something like that, like an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China mostly because the U.S. Pacific Fleet has stopped any sort of reunification effort by force.”...