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…activity that could damage Russian-US relations.” Even before that public confirmation of the Russian role in Hong Kong, the White House was well aware of it. On June 23, the Demo- cratic senator Charles Schumer of New York correctly said,...
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anizing Committee are also listed online as serving in CCP United Front Work Department positions in Hong Kong.? The Organizing Committee for the Ryukyus also has a robust online presence, with both a website and a Weibo (similar to Twitter...
… chain is thus open to question. For the time being, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has not pressed this issue. Hong Kong has long been a base for flag-waving Chinese activists agitating on the issue of the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. Their appea...
…seventies, someone very senior in the agency, because I knew almost nothing about him prior to our arrival in Hong Kong.” His initial confusion was understandable. Snowden, it will be recalled, had falsely identified himself to them in an e...
… investigative journalism, which was backed by the Internet billion- aire Pierre Omidyar. Poitras remained in Hong Kong, where she moved, along with the Guardian reporter MacAskill, to the five-star Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers, which,...
The Crime Scene Investigation | 143 charges prevented the Hong Kong police from immediately order- ing his detention. His Hong Kong lawyers were certainly advised of these pending charges no later than June 21, when they were pub- lished on...
the “Wikileaks team” helped fund Snowden’s flight to Russia from Hong Kong, as well as her own flight there. But Wikileaks in June 2013 was not an organization with spare cash. Assange had forfeited his own bail by fleeing the embassy of Ec...
…t June was not to meet Snowden face-to-face out of concern about the surveillance of American intelligence in Hong Kong. Instead, for her first 13 days in Hong Kong, she worked behind the scenes, through intermediaries. Her task was not onl...
…tion of the composition of the sixteenth Politburo Standing Committee. But in 2009, Duowei was purchased by a Hong Kong businessman* with substantial business interests in China, including two companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchang...
…pt to pressure the Washington Post, he asked Greenwald to drop everything he was doing and immediately fly to Hong Kong. He had, it will be recalled, already sent Poitras an enciphered file, and told her she would get the key once she and G...
Enter Assange | 103 Because Hong Kong had a vigorously enforced extradition agree- ment with the United States, as mentioned above, it was expected that Snowden would be taken into custody. But China had the final say in any extradition dec...
…e suspected that she was being followed. That was likely, because by June 14 all the intelligence services in Hong Kong knew that she was in contact with Snowden. “I was being tailed,” Poitras recalled in an interview with a Vogue | | Epst_...
…ealing the NSA’s sources in foreign countries. This admission could further complicate his legal situation in Hong Kong because it suggested that he meant to steal documents even before he had known their content. In fact, to protect himsel...
a 10-minute ferry ride away from Hong Kong island
Ant Financial will come to the market for a $60 bn IPO in 2017 -- also in Hong Kong.
inviting a well-known Hong Kong activist denied access at one center
told me. “It’s very mysterious why Snowden chose Hong Kong.”
Hong Kong had made headlines by extraditing
some journalists who have left Hong Kong for the
