🇮🇩印尼獨立快樂。
🇹🇼有很多來自印尼的朋友,不管在哪個角色,已經是我們台灣不可或缺,新文化的一部分。
不管先來後到、一起在美麗島茁壯!
Selamat Hari Kemerdekaan! Selamat Ulang Tahun ke-75 untuk rakyat Indonesia!
My most sincere congratulations to all my Indonesian friends who celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Independence today.
Taiwan and Indonesia are bound by strong ties of friendship. I also trust that the Tsai administration will continue to expand ur relations under the aegis of #NewSouthboundPolicy.
As we approach the New Normal, I look forward to more economic, political, and people-to-people exchanges with the Emerald of the Equator.
Today is also a day to reflect on how we, the people of Taiwan, can make our relationship with Indonesia more equitable. Taiwan benefits from the economic and cultural contributions of over quarter million Indonesian women and men who chose to call our country their home. Despite their positive impact on Taiwan, they are often met with injustice: the proposed Taipei Main Station sitting ban, the broken broker system for migrant workers, unwarranted ethnocentrism… These are all examples of imprudence I pledge to combat.
I, too, make mistakes. But I pledge to be a better ally.
I shall make use of my platform to educate myself, to amplify the stifled voices, and to speak up against ignorance.
Jayalah Indonesia! Jayalah persahabatan dan jayalah keberagaman!
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美國財政部周四按《全球馬格尼茨基人權問責法》(The Global Magnitsky Act),宣佈制裁4名中國人及新疆公安局,其中包括新疆黨委書記陳全國、前政法委書記朱海侖、新疆維吾爾自治區政府副主席王明山,以及現任新疆維吾爾自治區公安廳黨委書記霍留軍,指他們涉及嚴重侵犯新疆少數民族的人權。
“Treasury Sanctions Chinese Entity and Officials Pursuant to Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act...
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美國財政部周四按《全球馬格尼茨基人權問責法》(The Global Magnitsky Act),宣佈制裁4名中國人及新疆公安局,其中包括新疆黨委書記陳全國、前政法委書記朱海侖、新疆維吾爾自治區政府副主席王明山,以及現任新疆維吾爾自治區公安廳黨委書記霍留軍,指他們涉及嚴重侵犯新疆少數民族的人權。
“Treasury Sanctions Chinese Entity and Officials Pursuant to Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act
July 9, 2020
Washington – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned one Chinese government entity and four current or former government officials in connection with serious rights abuses against ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). These designations include Chen Quanguo, the Communist Party Secretary of XUAR, and Zhu Hailun, a former Deputy Party Secretary of the XUAR. Also designated today is the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau (XPSB), as well as the current Director and Communist Party Secretary of the XPSB, Wang Mingshan, and the former Party Secretary of the XPSB, Huo Liujun. The entity and officials are being designated for their connection to serious human rights abuse against ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, which reportedly include mass arbitrary detention and severe physical abuse, among other serious abuses targeting Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim population indigenous to Xinjiang, and other ethnic minorities in the region.
“The United States is committed to using the full breadth of its financial powers to hold human rights abusers accountable in Xinjiang and across the world,” said Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin.
This action is being taken pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, “Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption,” which builds upon and implements the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.
These designations are the latest U.S. government actions in an ongoing effort to deter human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region. On July 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of State, along with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, issued the Xinjiang Supply Chain Business Advisory, advising businesses with potential supply chain exposure to Xinjiang to consider the reputational, economic, and legal risks of involvement with entities that engage in human rights abuses in Xinjiang, such as forced labor. On May 22, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce added nine PRC entities related to human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region to the Commerce Entity List; this action complemented the October 2019 addition to the Commerce Entity List of 28 entities engaged in the PRC repression campaign in the Xinjiang region. Also, in October 2019, the U.S. Department of State announced a visa restriction policy under section 212 (a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act for PRC and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials responsible for, or complicit in, human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
CHEN QUANGUO AND ZHU HAILUN
The Xinjiang region in western China is home to Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, ethnic Kyrgyz, and other traditionally Muslim minority groups. XUAR is the regional government of Xinjiang and falls under the governance of the PRC. Chen Quanguo (Chen) is the Party Secretary of the XUAR, a position he was appointed to in 2016, following Chen’s notorious history of intensifying security operations in the Tibetan Autonomous Region to tighten control over the Tibetan ethnic minorities. While Chen was already known for his ability to control “ethnic unrest,” when he got to Xinjiang, he had a deputy who understood the Xinjiang region, Zhu Hailun (Zhu), who for the past few decades had held several positions in the Chinese Communist Party, prior to holding the position of Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Political and Legal Committee (XPLC) from 2016 to 2019. In this role, Zhu was responsible for maintaining internal security and law enforcement in the XUAR; while Zhu left this role in 2019, he still currently serves as the Deputy Secretary of Xinjiang’s People’s Congress, a regional legislative body. Following his arrival to the region, Chen began implementing a comprehensive surveillance, detention, and indoctrination program in Xinjiang, targeting Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities through the XPSB.
As a part of Chen’s plans, the large-scale construction of mass detention camps, labelled “training centers,” greatly escalated in 2017, and as the Party Secretary of the XPLC, Zhu established the policies and procedures for managing these detention camps with the purported goal of using the camps to fight terrorism and maintain stability. Zhu’s policies outlined how the detention camps would operate, to include not allowing “escapes” and “abnormal deaths.” At the same time, former detainees of these detention camps report that deaths occurred among fellow detainees after torture and abuse at the hands of the security officials. A large focus of these detention camps was constant surveillance, even while detainees remain totally cut off from the outside world.
Chen is being designated for being a foreign person who is or has been a leader or official of an entity, including any government entity, that has engaged in, or whose members have engaged in serious human rights abuse relating to the leader’s or official’s tenure, and Zhu is being designated for being a foreign person who is responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in, serious human rights abuse.
REPRESSION IN THE XUAR: XINJIANG PUBLIC SECURITY BUREAU, HUO LIUJUN, AND WANG MINGSHAN
Since at least late 2016, repressive tactics have been used by the XPSB against the Uyghurs and members of other ethnic minority groups in the region, including mass detentions and surveillance. The PRC’s surveillance has targeted members of religious and ethnic minority groups, as the Chinese government treats almost all expressions of faith as a sign of religious “extremism” or ethnic separatism. Targets of this surveillance are often detained and reportedly subjected to various methods of torture and “political reeducation.” According to press reporting, since at least 2017, more than one million Muslims have been held in these camps.
Under the command of Huo Liujun (Huo), leader of the XPSB from at least March 2017 to 2018, and Wang Mingshan (Wang), leader of the XPSB since at least May 2018, the XPSB has deployed the “Integrated Joint Operations Platform” (IJOP), an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted computer system that created biometric records for millions of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region. The XPSB, through the IJOP, uses digital surveillance systems to track Uyghurs’ movements and activities, to include surveilling who they interact with and what they read. In turn, IJOP uses this data to determine which persons could be potential threats; according to reports, some of these individuals are subsequently detained and sent to detention camps, being held indefinitely without charges or trial. The IJOP AI platform is one of the first examples of governments using AI for racial profiling. According to press reporting, the IJOP technology looks exclusively for Uyghurs, based on their appearance, and keeps records of their movements. The mass detention of Uyghurs is part of an effort by PRC authorities to use detentions and data-driven surveillance to create a police state in the Xinjiang region.
The XPSB is being designated for being a foreign person responsible for, or complicit in, or that has directly or indirectly engaged in, serious human rights abuse. Huo and Wang are each being designated for being a foreign person who is or has been a leader or official of an entity whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 13818 as a result of activities related to the leaders’ or officials’ tenure.
SANCTIONS IMPLICATIONS
As a result of today’s action, all property and interests in property of the entity and individuals named above, and of any entities that are owned, directly or indirectly, 50 percent or more by them, individually, or with other blocked persons, that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons, are blocked and must be reported to OFAC. Unless authorized by a general or specific license issued by OFAC or otherwise exempt, OFAC’s regulations generally prohibit all transactions by U.S. persons or within (or transiting) the United States that involve any property or interests in property of designated or otherwise blocked persons. The prohibitions include the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any blocked person or the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods or services from any such person.
GLOBAL MAGNITSKY
Building upon the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, the President signed E.O. 13818 on December 20, 2017, in which the President found that the prevalence of human rights abuse and corruption that have their source, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States, had reached such scope and gravity that it threatens the stability of international political and economic systems. Human rights abuse and corruption undermine the values that form an essential foundation of stable, secure, and functioning societies; have devastating impacts on individuals; weaken democratic institutions; degrade the rule of law; perpetuate violent conflicts; facilitate the activities of dangerous persons; and undermine economic markets. The United States seeks to impose tangible and significant consequences on those who commit serious human rights abuse or engage in corruption, as well as to protect the financial system of the United States from abuse by these same persons.”
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1055
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11:04 6 Aug: First Ever Press Conference Held by Protesters to Counterweight Gov't PC; Invites People to Join Future PC if Interested
After disappearing from public eye for 11 days, CE Carrie Lam, announced during yesterday's press conference that daily police and government interdepartmental PCs will be held starting from 5 Aug. In the hopes to balance the government's one-sided political discourse, a civil press conference was held today. In response to the statements made by FS Paul Chan yesterday, the speakers stressed that the economic changes in Hong Kong began long before the protests started and that they were mainly the results of external factors such as the stagnating global economy and the current Sino-US trade war.
The speakers strongly condemned the incompetence and negligence of the HKPF and cited incidents in Tseung Kwan O, Sai Wan, Tin Shui Wai, Kwun Tong as examples of excessive use of force. They urged the police to remember the vows and mottos of the HKPF and to exercise restraint in the face of protests. They reiterated the 5 core demands, and particularly emphasised the importance and urgency of dual-universal suffrage. They asked for the government to restore Hong Kong's self-autonomy and respect the people’s right to the freedom of assembly, expression and democracy.
In the Q&A section, when asked about the slogan “Reclaim Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times”, they explained that while activist Edward Leung coined the words in 2016, different individuals or parties (including the government) will have differed interpretations. They hope to involve others in future press conferences to explain their opinions on the slogan itself. The statement made today was constructed with information gathered from Telegram and other platforms over a short period of time. It included views from supplies teams, frontliners, local residents and other participants of the movement. The exact number of people contributed to the statement is unknown, but there were about 100 people who were involved with the PC's preparations today.
The speakers stated that the public should not simply be focused on protesters on the frontlines, rather to consider all who have actively spoken out against police brutality and injustice as "frontliners" as well. They urged Hongkongers to stand united and to pressure the government into respond to the core demands, with the hopes that the government would finally effectively resolve the ongoing protests and appease the people.
The speakers reiterated that they were simply providing a platform where people could make their voices heard. They are not affiliated with any political party, organization and do not represent LIHKG netizens either. For this reason, they are unable to comment on individual incidents (e.g. setting fires) or any future strategies used in protests. Furthermore, they explained that the movement is spontaneous and self-driven, it is impossible for an individual or group to have the power to command the crowd. They will not and cannot tell anyone to escalate the tactics used in the movement.
Regarding the 5 demands, they emphasized that timing and order were irrelevant since all 5 demands are equally important for the movement. The general will throughout the past protests and assemblies is for all 5 to be met and that would be the only way to appease the people. While some believed that establishing an independent commission of inquiry (ICOI) could be a good first step, there are also some who question such commission's political and judiciary independence and whether it would deliver substantive results.
The speakers expressed uncertainty regarding potential PLA intervention in the future, but were confident that in the case of intervention, Hong Kong and the global economy will be forced to respond accordingly. While they continued to urge Hongkongers to "be water" in the face of potential threat and adversity, they claimed that the only way to solve the current political crisis for the government to respond to the people's demands.
On the various protests on 5 August, the speakers apologised for the inconvenience caused by the non-cooperative movement and the 7 district public assemblies. However, they said that the government’s inability to listen to the peoples’ demands was the leading cause of recent escalation. Although the protests orginated from the anti-extradition movement, recent protests have revealed the depth of the people's discontent which extends to various other socio-political issues -- which the government has made no efforts to address or solve. After numerous peaceful methods of expressing our dissatisfaction were to no avail (e.g. protests, strikes, actions by frontliners), the civil press conference was the most recent attempt to provide a nuanced perspective of recent events.
In terms of future PCs, the speakers said it would depend on the manpower available and the reactions to today’s PC. They hoped for the PCs to focus on the HKPF's excessive use of force and negligence while they also wished to invite other citizens to join them in the future. However, no concrete plans have been made for similar events in the future.