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Records show the State Department's collaboration with Hong Kong police dates back more than a decade.
With the national security laws now in place, Demosisto—led by figures like Joshua Wong and 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.
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.
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.
JN·
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. The restriction’s ambiguity would allow hawkish Republicans to apply a blanket ban on any student with such affiliations
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.
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.
Lack of ideological debate allows existing conservative structures to seep into the deepest core of the movement.
Structures of inequality do not simply wither away with the hoisting of a new flag.
