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<p>Much as I would love to take credit for this...</p>
<p>"Britain Opens Door To Citizenship for 300,000 Hong Kong
Residents. Extended visa pledge to BNO passport holders. Bold
riposte to crackdown by Beijing - <a
href="https://www.ft.com/content/0cf70de8-fd10-4a5c-8303-fbd2b0b3811e?platform=hootsuite">https://www.ft.com/content/0cf70de8-fd10-4a5c-8303-fbd2b0b3811e?platform=hootsuite</a>"</p>
<p>H/T: <a
href="https://twitter.com/ukpapers/status/1266270638555066369">https://twitter.com/ukpapers/status/1266270638555066369</a></p>
<p>A week used to be a long time in politics. Now 36 hours is!<br>
-Lee<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/05/2020 22:46, Yosem Companys
wrote:<br>
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<div>Excellent point, Lee. </div>
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<div>To wit, Annalee Saxenian said something similar of
Chinese and Indian immigrant engineers to Silicon
Valley: </div>
<div><br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px
0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">When local
technologists claim that 'Silicon Valley is built on
ICs' they refer not to the integrated circuit but to
Indian and Chinese engineers.</blockquote>
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0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">[...]</blockquote>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px
0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The entrepreneurial
contributions of these skilled immigrants are
impressive. In 1998, Chinese and Indian engineers,
most of whom arrived in the United States after 1970
to pursue graduate studies, were senior executives at
one-quarter of Silicon Valley’s new technology
businesses. These immigrant-run companies collectively
accounted for more than $16.8 billion in sales and
58,282 jobs in 1998. Moreover, Chinese and Indian
immigrants started companies at an accelerating rate
in the 1990s.</blockquote>
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0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote>
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">[...]</blockquote>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px
0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px
0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">...they have
created a rich fabric of professional and
associational activities that facilitate immigrant job
search, information exchange, access to capital and
managerial knowhow, and the creation of shared ethnic
identities. The region’s most successful Chinese and
Indian entrepreneurs rely heavily on such ethnic
resources while simultaneously integrating into the
mainstream technology economy.</blockquote>
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0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">These networks are
not simply local. Silicon Valley’s new immigrant
entrepreneurs are building far-reaching professional
and business ties to
<div>regions in Asia. They are uniquely positioned
because their language skills and technical and
cultural know-how allow them to function</div>
<div>effectively in the business culture of their home
countries as well as in Silicon Valley. ... In this
process, Silicon Valley–based entrepreneurs benefit
from the significant flows of capital that these
immigrants coordinate, as well as from the
privileged access that they provide to Asian markets
and to Taiwan’s flexible, state-of-the-art
semiconductor and personal computer manufacturing
capabilities. </div>
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<div>Saxenian warned: <br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px
0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Restricting the
immigration of skilled workers, for example, could
have substantially more far-reaching consequences for
economic development than most policymakers recognize,
affecting not only the supply of skilled workers but
also the rate of entrepreneurship, the level of
international investment and trade, and California’s
economic growth.</blockquote>
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<div class="gmail_quote"> On Wed, May 27, 2020 9:29 PM, Lee
Alley <span dir="ltr"> <a
href="mailto:lee@morganalley.com" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">lee@morganalley.com</a></span>
wrote:<br>
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<p>I have to admit I really, REALLY sympathise with the
urge to *do something* and undermine, hack, bypass,
route around the damage and capabilities of the PLA
and friends. But can I add one bit of perspective?</p>
<p>Firstly, despite huge ongoing protests before the
Covid, China decided to go ahead with this anyway.
They've upped the ante and they have (most of) the
power, including the will to act contrary to world
opinion. <br>
</p>
<p>Secondly, and more importantly, Something the PRC
leadership seem to have forgotten is the entirety of
the value-add of HK walks home from the cars, buses
and subways in leather shoes every night and is
literally contained between the ears of every HK
resident in the province. What HK'ers know and are
capable of doing doesn't necessarily have to be done
there as the diasporas of Vancouver and London have
proven. They are the precious commodity; not the rock
they live on.<br>
</p>
<p>In my opinion, urging our leaders to adopt an
open-door policy to any resident of Hong Kong that
wants to emigrate would be the most effective way to
concentrate the minds of the PRC leadership. A Pyrrhic
victory of winning a few buildings on a rock with some
sycophants that stayed behind is not the look Chairman
Xi can successfully take back to the National People's
Congress. <br>
</p>
<p>I may be wrong, but if we welcomed the Anabaptists
and Jews and Huguenots and many others backintheday
and gave them space to become some of the most
creative and productive people in their adopted lands,
we can be prepared to do the same for the people of
Hong Kong today. Maggie Thatcher didn't give them
passports because she believed China was serious about
wanting to make the 1 country/2 systems thing work and
that HK would end up influencing China to the extent
HK would be happy to be united with the mainland.
Clearly China (ironically) didn't have the patience. <br>
</p>
<p>I know this isn't The Way to some on the list; it
isn't clever code; it's not a great hack on the Great
Firewall; it's not a heroic Neo-like denouement to
save the Gates of Zion, but it's a solution that gives
them positive optionality and it shows a huge,
whopping-great bully he's at his weakest when he
flexes his muscles towards the vulnerable.</p>
<p>Maybe I'm a dreamer or a hopeless idealist, but the
politics of appeasement haven't worked and outright
attack would be met with the same with HK being
collateral political damage. But this way seems to
tick all the boxes without violence and with little
downside. I've read everyone's ideas with interest and
happy to listen to any others (preferably lacking the
word "should" eg. "China should respect HK..." Yes. We
know.)</p>
<p>Thanks for listening,<br>
Lee</p>
<p>(....and back to lurk mode!)<br>
</p>
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<p>On 27/05/2020 19:56, Yosem Companys wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">This is an excellent follow up.
Thank you. I will bring up to the topic with
the folks in Hong Kong and pose these
questions to them as well.</div>
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<div> On Wed, May 27, 2020 6:32 PM, Robert
Mathews (OSIA) <span dir="ltr"> <a
href="mailto:mathews@hawaii.edu"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">mathews@hawaii.edu</a></span>
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<div>On 5/26/20 6:00 AM, <a
href="mailto:lt-request@lists.liberationtech.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">lt-request@lists.liberationtech.org</a>
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<div dir="ltr">Of course. But
this is not a push model.
Local actors have already
asked for our help. They
have asked <span
data-ddnwab="PR_1_0"
data-wpkgv="true">we
brainstorm</span> ways in
which Liberationtech could
help them do things that
have not been done in the
past.
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I present my apologies in advance for <b>this
quick penning,</b> and for presenting
the following multi-dimensional content
to the group -- in the way that I
estimate the content must be, and has
been presented below.<br>
<br>
The question in the 'subject-line' of
the original message Yosem had
dispatched to the list read: "What could
we at Liberationtech do to help
pro-democracy HK activists protest
China's new security law?"
Subsequently, Yosem shared more
information in a message to Eric Fu,
stating, "They have asked we brainstorm
ways in which Liberationtech could help
them do things that have not been done
in the past."<br>
<br>
To this, some clarification might
benefit all. WHAT is the problem "in
reality," that Liberationtech could
assist brainstorm-on, and possibly as a
"crowd-resource"? Is it, to reveal
more effective ways of "demonstrating"
the opposition's position, or are there
"other" implied/undeclared objectives
upon which a "brainstorming" must be
had? <br>
<br>
I present the following open-source
media reporting as a basis for asking
the aforementioned questions. Permit me
to further highlight the issues "on the
ground", as reported.<br>
<br>
Since 9/11, police forces around the
world have increasingly become
para-militarized. Consequentially, in
this and other instances, when
established instruments of
"power-systems" meet/confront
citizens-on-the-street (as it has in
Hong Kong), on such matters as the
seemingly 'inexorable' political
condition there (as the <b>AFP</b>
story indicates below), the
confrontations with Police forces will
increasingly become brutal and
destructive. But, this is NOT just a
post 9/11 condition, it is historical.
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<font size="+1"><b>Hong Kong police
stamp out national anthem law
protests</b></font><br>
AFP<br>
27 MAY 2020<br>
<a
href="https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/hong-kong-police-stamp-out-national-anthem-law-protests-doc-1sa9dv7"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/hong-kong-police-stamp-out-national-anthem-law-protests-doc-1sa9dv7</a><br>
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---><br>
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Also, considering that the U.S. State
Department has "hurriedly communicated"
to US Congress that conditions in Hong
Kong are no longer tenable/in compliance
with findings and declarations under "22
USC Ch. 66 - Subchapter 1 - Policy
(United States-Hong Kong Policy)" [ <a
href="https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title22/chapter66&edition=prelim"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title22/chapter66&edition=prelim</a>
AND <a
href="https://www.state.gov/prc-national-peoples-congress-proposal-on-hong-kong-national-security-legislation/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.state.gov/prc-national-peoples-congress-proposal-on-hong-kong-national-security-legislation/</a>
] and therefore, recommending that the
standing US policy be revoked, only
complicates matters <font
color="#ff0000"><b>(enormously)</b></font>
for ALL residents of Hong Kong.<br>
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Adjacently, in media reporting from the
Sub-Continent, NDTV has noted the
sentiments of a Hotel Manager and a
female protester as follows:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px"><i>"I'm
scared ... if you don't come out
today, you'll never be able to come
out. This is legislation that
directly affects us," said Ryan
Tsang, a hotel manager.</i><i><br>
</i><i><br>
</i>AND<i><br>
</i><i><br>
</i><i>"Although you're afraid inside
your heart, you need to speak out,"
said Chang, 29, a clerk and
protester dressed in black with a
helmet respirator and goggles in her
backpack.</i><i><br>
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</i></blockquote>
Street demonstrations aside, how are the
residents of Hong Kong to productively
determine their future, and can they?
Is "showing-up" on the street, the
adequate measure to be taken?<br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Riot Police Deployed
In Hong Kong Over Protests Against
Chinese Anthem Bill</b></font><br>
The anthem bill is set for a second
reading on Wednesday and is expected to
become law next month.<br>
NDTV<br>
May 27, 2020 11:37 am IST<br>
<a
href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/riot-police-deployed-in-hong-kong-over-protests-against-chinese-anthem-bill-2235785"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/riot-police-deployed-in-hong-kong-over-protests-against-chinese-anthem-bill-2235785</a><br>
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Given the escalations we are witnessing,
what is the strategy (if any) of/for
residents and their political future in
Hong Kong? What, if anything, can
Liberatontech do to support in that
regard, is a question that could - more
concretely - be posed.... (personal
view)... External to that, WHAT
precisely must/can Liberationtech
'brainstorm', and with what goal for
Hong Kong in mind?<br>
<br>
A few more recent open-source media
reports that might bre more
informational for the membership....<br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Hong Kong's richest
man Li Ka-shing defends China's
plans for security law</b></font><br>
CNN Digital Rebranding 2013<br>
By Michelle Toh, <br>
CNN Business<br>
Updated 8:08 AM ET, Wed May 27, 2020<br>
<a
href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/27/business/li-ka-shing-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/27/business/li-ka-shing-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html</a><br>
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--><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>China's Hong Kong law
set to bar foreign judges from
national security cases: sources</b></font><br>
Yew Lun Tian<br>
REUTERS<br>
MAY 26, 2020<br>
<a
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-parliament-hongkong-security/chinas-hong-kong-law-set-to-bar-foreign-judges-from-national-security-cases-sources-idUSKBN2321CW"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-parliament-hongkong-security/chinas-hong-kong-law-set-to-bar-foreign-judges-from-national-security-cases-sources-idUSKBN2321CW</a><br>
<br>
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing’s planned
national security legislation for Hong
Kong is set to block its foreign judges
from handling national security trials,
people familiar with the matter said,
which would exacerbate concerns about
the city’s judicial independence.<br>
-- <br>
<font color="#b3b3b3"><i>Dr. Robert
Mathews, D.Phil.<br>
Principal Technologist &<br>
</i><i>Distinguished Senior Research
Scholar</i><i><br>
</i><i>Office of Scientific Inquiry
& Applications (OSIA)</i><i><br>
</i><i>University of Hawai'i</i></font></div>
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