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Stuart Lau

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Stuart Lau

@StuartKLau

Senior Journalist at the BBC. Views are my own

Joined October 2010

Stuart Lau
@StuartKLau
Feb 26, 2022
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
@StuartKLau
Aug 15, 2021
Imagine Beijing watching US military “commitment” in Afghanistan while contemplating its next move on Taiwan.
Stuart Lau
@StuartKLau
Jul 1, 2020
#Breaking Boris Johnson just confirmed nearly 3 million British National (Overseas) passport holders in Hong Kong can now resettle in the UK
Stuart Lau
@StuartKLau
Jan 6, 2021
#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.
Stuart Lau
@StuartKLau
Jun 30, 2020
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.
Stuart Lau
@StuartKLau
Jun 19, 2020
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
Stuart Lau
@StuartKLau
Nov 18, 2019
#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
Stuart Lau
@StuartKLau
Aug 18, 2022
Yuan Wang literally means “Looking From Afar”
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Stuart Lau
@StuartKLau
Sep 16, 2020
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.”
Stuart Lau
@StuartKLau
Aug 2, 2020
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.
US puts Chinese apps on notice as Trump gives TikTok ‘45 days’ to sell
From scmp.com
Stuart Lau
@StuartKLau
Dec 29, 2021
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.
Baerbock demands forced-labor ban, won’t attend Olympics
From politico.eu
Stuart Lau
@StuartKLau
Feb 22, 2022
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.”
Stuart Lau
@StuartKLau
Jul 6, 2020
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.
Stuart Lau
@StuartKLau
Feb 25, 2022
Replying to @StuartKLau
Caution: the Chinese state report made no mention if Putin specified when or under what conditions.