Czech Republic and Slovakia are donating a total of €17.5 million worth of ammunition and other supplies. Belgium will provide 3,800 tonnes of fuel and 2,000 machine guns.
Have Germany’s helmets arrived?
Stuart Lau
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Stuart Lau
@StuartKLau
Senior Journalist at the BBC. Views are my own
Joined October 2010
- Imagine Beijing watching US military “commitment” in Afghanistan while contemplating its next move on Taiwan.
- #Breaking Boris Johnson just confirmed nearly 3 million British National (Overseas) passport holders in Hong Kong can now resettle in the UK
- #Breaking Hong Kong police have arrested more than 50 pro-democracy politicians under the National Security Law. Some of them are detained on suspicion of subverting state power, for having taken part in unofficial primary polls ahead of a planned legislative election.
- In this thread, I'll explain the 4 categories of offences under the new national security law, just gazetted into law in Hong Kong: secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces.
- Just in: European Parliament voted 565 votes for, 34 against the motion on China's national security law on Hong Kong. Among other recommendations it asks EU/member states to sue China in the International Court of Justice, and the EU leaders to raise HK with Premier Li on Monday
- #Breaking China’s legislature: Hong Kong courts have no power to rule on constitutionality of the city’s legislation with regards to Basic Law, after HK High Court nullified face mask ban. A major contradiction of common-law judicial review in HK @zuibrahim @hkchrislau @alvinllum
- An historic moment: @vonderleyen mentioned Hong Kong in her first State of the Union address at the European Parliament today. “We must always call out human rights abuses whenever and wherever they occur – be it on Hong Kong or with the Uyghurs.”
- It’s not just TikTok – but WeChat will be banned in the US too, according to @SecPompeo. If so, countless Chinese people who live in the US could be cut off from their friends and families in China, where WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger is banned.
- Germany’s new foreign minister says she won’t be attending Beijing Winter Olympics and calls for the whole of EU to ban goods made by forced labor.
- Not the most urgent matter of the day, but France has officially removed Australia from its list of strategic partners. The AUKUS deal “has led to a re-evaluation of the past strategic partnership,” with future FR-AU cooperation to proceed “on a case-by-case basis.”
- UK government is said to be considering changes to extradition treaty with Hong Kong, while MPs might call on @DominicRaab to impose new Magnitsky sanction power on Carrie Lam.
- Replying to @StuartKLauCaution: the Chinese state report made no mention if Putin specified when or under what conditions.
