Everyone shocked by the latest case of China decoupling realizes that Beijing already decoupled from pretty much the rest of the world’s internet like a decade ago right?

@fluffysharp  This piece does not use the term but I've seen it elsewhere in reports about the closure of Lucky Lee's — cultural appropriation. Thinking out loud: I sometimes worry the word has become a trigger, prejudicing people on the merits of a story by mere fact that vocabulary is used.

I'm like three months late to this story but since it's my alma mater, I feel the need to say what a terrible idea I thought Yale-NUS in Singapore was from the very beginning, cooked up by former Yale President Levin 🤦🏻‍♀️. By @ShibaniMahtani :

@china_neican  @Levarius32Good  stuff, including the podcast which I just listened to. I had no idea Taiwan's deported some mainlanders for defacing the Lennon Wall!

Hong Kongers around the world help how they can. I spoke to @GlacierCKwong  based in Germany about her or @kbflF5  's work providing digital security training for on the ground activists. O @dwnews  :

From Reporters Without Borders @RSF_en ): "In the RSF World Press Freedom Index, China’s Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong has plummeted from 18th in 2002 to 73rd this year."

Late to this but @chang_ping  on violence and resistance: "For many years... the streets were clean after the protests. I am very wary about the public’s preoccupation with this, because it implies that they expect the Hongkongers to be “'perfect victims.'”