#standwithhongkong

[mlrobak]

Stand with freedom, stand with justice, stand with them all… Graffito in #littleukrainenyc #eastvillagenyc . . . #littleukraine #nyc #newyorkcity #graffiti #graffito ##standwithukraine #standwithhongkong #standwithtibet #freetibet #standwithtaiwan #standwithuyghurs #standwithiranianwomen (at East Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cja6JVXrGBj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#littleukrainenyc #eastvillagenyc #littleukraine #nyc #newyorkcity #graffiti #graffito #standwithukraine #standwithhongkong #standwithtibet #freetibet #standwithtaiwan #standwithuyghurs #standwithiranianwomen

[sakithepooh]

#39mrunfor721 #香港人加油 #ynwa #香港 #hongkong #香港加油💪🏻 #wearehongkonger #fightforfreedom #standwithhongkong #reallifehk （在 Sha Tin, Hong Kong） https://www.instagram.com/p/ClOiGv0p1jdWnLSRQr9ZxJatlAZOF6yFOPvXxk0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#39mrunfor721 #香港人加油 #ynwa #香港 #hongkong #香港加油💪🏻 #wearehongkonger #fightforfreedom #standwithhongkong #reallifehk

[jrlsk]

香港陥落25年、国安法2年集会

今年7月1日で香港がイギリスから返還されてから25年、国家保安法が施行されてから2年が経ちました。一国二制度が形骸化し、香港の中国化が進んでいく中、なお戦い続けようという集会が参議院選挙の候補者の演説に交じって行われました。

#香港返還25年 #standwithhongkong

[ryukoishida]

Three years ago today in Hong Kong...

#612 #standwithhongkong #hong kong

[stripeboy0621]

#TheFlyingFrenchman #FlyingFrenchman #TheFreedomFighter #FreedomFighter #FightForFreedom #StandWithHongKong (at The Flying Frenchman) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeYoaTYPEUh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#theflyingfrenchman #flyingfrenchman #thefreedomfighter #freedomfighter #fightforfreedom #standwithhongkong

[aanotheruniverse]

#standwithhongkong

[chikuri]

狼さんはTwitterを使っています: 「香港理工大学構内に書かれた「落書き」。 それは、世界に向けてへの「メッセージ」だった。 #香港 #香港デモ #StandWithHongKong #StandWithHK #FightForFreedom #MilkTeaAlliance #ミルクティー同盟 #奶茶聯盟 https://t.co/Txp3Zy5gNX」 / Twitter

[psitrend]

Mulan: What Disney's Movie Teaches Us About Xi Jinping's China

New Post has been published on https://china-underground.com/2020/09/11/mulan-what-disneys-movie-teaches-us-about-xi-jinpings-china/

Mulan: What Disney's Movie Teaches Us About Xi Jinping's China

The failure of the remake of the famous 1990s cartoon highlights several issues hidden under the carpet for too long.

In 2015, Disney had the great idea of making a film aimed at the Chinese market and at the same time designed to please the regime. Mulan’s remake seemed at the time an excellent idea to raise cash and at the same time to strengthen itself in the local market, which has always been considered a sort of Eldorado for many Western brands. But simply to set foot (or to remain) in this immense market, some minimum requirements must be met and above all, companies must not make the government nervous with useless trifles such as the existence of Tibet or human rights.

The removal of Tibet from the collective Hollywood consciousness

In the 1990s, Disney made Kundun, a film directed by Martin Scorsese about the life of the Dalai Lama. Chinese leaders turned against the film, and Disney CEO Michael Eisner himself had to travel to China to ask for forgiveness for making a film about Tibet and to negotiate a theme park in Shanghai. The film Seven Years in Tibet received a similar fate.

Again in 2016, Marvel (also owned by Disney) removed from the film Doctor Strange the character of a Tibetan sage, in the film replaced by Tilda Swinton, again in order not to break the fragile feelings of the Chinese government, which feels threatened by a superhero of paper.

The result of these setbacks is an excess of zeal towards the Chinese regime and the preventive self-censorship of the great Hollywood productions, which to reach the Chinese market, do not have any problems in putting a muzzle on their authors.

The genesis of a failure

From the earliest stages of the making of this film, Disney’s guiding light throughout Operation Mulan appeared to be to indulge and anticipate every wish of the Beijing government.

At the beginning were the unfortunate statements of the film’s protagonist Liu Yifei, who thanked the Hong Kong police for her role in crushing the pro-democratic protests in Hong Kong, causing the immediate boycott by activists and sympathizers around the world.

Like most of the film productions released in this period, the movie has had to face the crisis triggered by the COVID, which has emptied the theaters and is putting the health of the entire sector at risk. As early as 2003, SARS was among those responsible for the Hong Kong film crisis, which could no longer recover.

To get around the problem, Disney decided to rely on its new Disney + streaming platform, however requiring an additional financial effort, in addition to the cost of the subscription.

When the film was finally released, Disney’s eagerness to please the Chinese regime was finally revealed by thanking the authorities of the “autonomous” province of Xinjiang, where some scenes of the film were shot, the same authorities who rounded up and sent Uyghur citizens to concentration camps.

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#BoycottMulan is a MUST! After support HK police brutality, @Disney is pro genocide on #Uygur ! The final credits of #mulan thank Chinese government security agency in Xinjiang , where about 1m people are sent to concentration camps for torturing and forced slave labor. / support me on patreon : patreon.com/badiucao & badiucao.com/artshop 开通了 Patreon 接受捐赠，希望大家的支持和分享。 请戳：patreon.com/badiucao 独立性是艺术的根本，但是面包和牛奶也不可或缺，疫情之下许多展览和活动的机会都被取消。艺术家的生存成为难题。 感谢大家一直以来的支持，你们的慷慨解囊会让我的创作独立，持之以恒。🙏 #五大诉求缺一不可 Chinese dissident cartoonist Badiucao has unveiled a flag design that he hopes will “become a new symbol of Hong Kong’s freedom and resistance.” The rainbow-coloured design was inspired by the “Lennon Wall” message boards that have sprung up in communities across Hong Kong since June. #freedom #hongkong #antielabhk #standwithhongkong #art #artistsoninstagram #arts #streetart #hongkong #hongkongprotest #humanrights #freespeech #beijing #china #politicalcartoons #illustrationartists #australian

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At this point, the film in the West was damaged by the choices made by Disney, choices dictated as we said earlier out of opportunism and to satisfy the wishes of Beijing.

Yesterday a circular from the Chinese government imposed silence around the film, guilty of having attracted further unwelcome criticism from the West.

The film has therefore not been banned in China but has been blacked out in the mainstream media, forever undermining the chances of recovering the investment and at the same time betraying the expectations of the Disney CEO who imagined diving into a sea of the renminbi.

The film also did not even receive positive reviews on the Douban aggregator, who with an average of 4.7 out of 10, decreed a negative verdict, thus nipping in the bud the possibility that the film could be saved thanks to word of mouth. The film was not particularly appreciated by the Chinese public for some changes made to the original plot, for the general flatness of the production, and the lack of historical coherence.

Mulan, however, comes out in 2020 and not in 2016, after the outbreak of the coronavirus, which originated in China, after the trade war with Trump, after the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, and also after the creation of the unfortunate concentration camps in Xinjiang.

In this period, the American government has also targeted for security reasons several Chinese companies, starting with Huawei to get to Tiktok, companies that have managed to spread to the West, but which have now been crippled by US intervention. The first was banned from competitions for the construction of 5g networks in practically the entire West and was prevented from buying the American chips, essential for the creation of smartphones, and the second instead is seen as a Trojan horse for spy on citizens of half the world.

Since the opening of the Chinese market in the 1990s, China has been stormed by large and small Western companies who saw the Asian country as a possibility to increase turnover, without paying attention to a series of “annoying” limitations, such as environmental regulations and respect for workers’ rights. Therefore, with this looting mentality in mind, countless companies have moved to China in search of easy earnings, putting aside any moral qualms, often relocating wildly to the East, sending home workers in place of cheaper labor, often also taking advantage of government incentives to promote foreign trade.

Disney wasn’t the first Western company to try to satisfy Beijing’s wishes. The NBA lost hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue after a dispute over comments directed at the situation in Hong Kong. The English Premier League was also confined to a corner for the same reason. Canadian canola producers had their exports frozen for a year to China, in retaliation for the arrest of Huawei founder’s daughter in Canada, all South Korean operations were halted in China during the construction of the US anti-missile system in South Korea.

Self-censorship, as well as being morally questionable, does not pay.

#Censorship, #Mulan, #Uighurs, #Xinjiang

#censorship #Mulan #Uighurs #xinjiang

[dwitnessdaily]

About 120,000 people participated in the 20th #Taiwan LGBTQ Parade in #Taipei #StandwithHongKong #TakedowntheCCP

For more details click below

#TaiwanPride celebration despite rain @ILoveLGBTPride ... #TaipeiPride #LGBTQ #SamesSex

[isshinotasuke]

[telaviv-delhi]

Az illiberális Kína naggszerūen összehozta a kommunizmus és a kapitalizmus hátrányait (halálra dolgozghstod magad, cserében kussolnod kell, mindezt jó alaposan megszórva nemzeti sérelmekből táplálkozó nacionalizmussal, cél szentesíti az eszközt, for a higher good, nem leszūnk gyarmat, Kína a kínaiaké, szabadság egyenlő szolgaság. let's make China big again. Ezek után nem mehetūnk a baráti kommunista/kapitalista/nacionalista Kínába, hacsak nem akarjnk sittre kerūlni drogcsempészet vádjával.

Egy szorgos nap végén bónusz: az Erzsébet hídnál egy ázsiai csajszi megköszönte, hogy támogatom Hongkongot, mikor meglátta a stencilt a bringám csomagtartójában. Mint kiderūlt, hongkongi volt.

#újgur mártirok útja #fudan #szabad hongkong út #dalai láma út #free tibet #fudan university Budapest #free China #free Hong kong street budapest #free Uighuria #uighur martirs street budapest #free taiwan #fuck communism #Dalai Lama street Budapest #Budapest #Fudan Budapest #Baranyi Krisztina #hongkong #hong kong #standwithhongkong #freehk #hk #freehk hongkongprotest standwithhk less demandsnot chinazi fightforfreedom china hongkongprotests

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

We live in different parts of the world. We speak different languages.  But our struggle is the same.  

#blacklivesmatter  

#standwithhongkong  

#junkterrorbill

Poster designed by  @BandilangItimPH

#blacklivesmatter #standwithhongkong #junkterrorbill #i stand with hong kong #hk #hk protest #hk protests #hong kong protests #black lives matter #blm protest #george floyd protests #antifa #antifascist #antifascism #161 #afa #philippines #duterte #struggle #resistance

[sakithepooh]

#39mrunfor721 #香港人加油 #ynwa #香港 #hongkong #香港加油💪🏻 #wearehongkonger #fightforfreedom #standwithhongkong #reallifehk （在 Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong） https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj-OBA4rBHA3cwf3WvDfAOk7uc8NGITr8ninJE0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#39mrunfor721 #香港人加油 #ynwa #香港 #hongkong #香港加油💪🏻 #wearehongkonger #fightforfreedom #standwithhongkong #reallifehk

[jrlsk]

香港陥落25年、国安法2年集会

今年7月1日で香港がイギリスから返還されてから25年、国家保安法が施行されてから2年が経ちました。一国二制度が形骸化し、香港の中国化が進んでいく中、なお戦い続けようという集会が参議院選挙の候補者の演説に交じって行われました。

#香港返還25年 #standwithhongkong

[nintendocafe]

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is becoming a safe place for Hong Kong protesters to fight for democracy.

What is the most interesting thing you have seen while visiting other islands?

#Hong Kong #democracy #Covid19 #STAY HOME #freedom #Animal Crossing #Animal Crossing: New Horizons #Nintendo #Nintendo Switch #peace #hope #StandWithHongKong

[savinghongkong]

On lockdown, Hong Kong activists are protesting in Animal Crossing

The group on the beach is made up of players from Hong Kong and they’re whacking pictures of Carrie Lam, their head of government. A banner laid out in front of them is familiar to anyone who followed news out of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory last year. The flag reads “Free Hong Kong, Revolution Now.”

Credit to the source

#Free Hong Kong #Exit Hong Kong #Hong Kong #standwithhongkong #antichinazi