The uniform, inspired by traditional Chinese culture and the Chinese character “Zhong,” features a stand collar and knot button. The red line in the middle stands for the central axis of Chinese capital city Beijing, which means the host city will draw together international friends, echoing the official motto of the Winter Olympics “Together for a shared future.”
Renowned Hong Kong designer Timmy Yip is the mastermind behind the uniform. He also deigned Team China’s podium uniform at Tokyo 2020. He said the uniform, as a window to showcase Chinese culture, features simple yet cheerful characteristics.
“The stand collar and knot button is distinctive and simple. The red lines on the two sides, together with the line in the middle form the Chinese character ‘Zhong’, giving people a mobile sense of climbing up,” Yip said.
“I hope the design can inspire the athletes and make them proud to fight for the country at the Games,” he added.
High technology is also applied to keep the outfit light, warm and structured for the indoor events.
For snow sports held in lower temperatures in the open air, double-layered cotton material is used and the clothing is water resistant and windproof.
Observer: US bill on Xinjiang has no basis in international law 美國涉疆法案沒有國際法依據 By Professor Kenneth Hammond | People’s Daily Dec 26, 2021
The new legislation about Xinjiang passed by the US Congress and signed by US President Joe Biden represents the ongoing efforts of American political elites to attack China and create a climate of fear and antagonism toward China among the American people.
China’s re-emergence as a significant participant in global affairs, and the success of its program of economic development for the improvement of the lives of its people are seen by US politicians not as great events to be welcomed and as an opportunity to seek a better future for all the world’s people, but rather as a threat to the power and privileges which they have enjoyed for many decades.
They rely upon the general ignorance of life in China on the part of most people in the West to promote a mythology of oppression which goes against the actual state of affairs in that country.
This kind of legislation has no basis in international law, and is in fact a contravention of the principles of respect for sovereignty and national integrity, and for non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries, which are the fundamental basis of a true international order.
The US government has thought of itself as the world’s police force at least since the end of World War II, and this is yet another example of meddling in the lives of Chinese people not to benefit them, but to try to slow down China’s progress and portray China in a negative light.
I have travelled in Xinjiang, to Urumqi, Kashgar, Turpan, Kucha, and Hotian, though of course not in the last few years. My own observations were that the vast majority of local people there, especially younger people, are pleased with the opportunities they have for education and for participation in the development of the modern economy.
I certainly did not see evidence of any kind of repression or anti-Muslim activities. If there has been a decline in the place of Islam in the daily lives of people, again especially younger people, I think that is largely a common feature of modernizing societies, where the attractions of contemporary culture are often seen as preferable to more traditional ways, which are felt to be out-of-date and uninteresting.
I know that there are separatist elements in Xinjiang and in the Islamic fundamentalist movements outside of China with links to the region. There have been serious acts of terror not only in Xinjiang but in other parts of China. Any reasonable government would take steps to address this threat, and China has certainly been doing so. The number of people involved in these activities is small, and the overall approach has been to establish vocational education and training centers to eradicate the breeding ground for terrorism and extremism from the source and try to address some of the economic or social issues which some people may feel give rise to separatist sentiments.
Development is never a totally smooth, frictionless process, but China is making great efforts to protect the safety and well-being of its people, including the people of Xinjiang, in responding to the violence of these divisive sects.
(The author is historian professor of New Mexico State University)
2022 New Year Resolution: Exit and re-exit plan from the foster home before leaving Hong Kong or China to USA by Johnson Choi, January 2 2022 (San Francisco and Hawaii)
Many in Hong Kong and China have plans to move to their new foster home in US. These people usually fell into the following categories:
Family reunion Marriage Education with plans to stay Job opportunities
People who are planning to leave due to political reasons such as foreign agents worked for US government engaged in subversive activities against China as well as corrupt government officials excluded in this brief discussions. For these people, US Foster Home will be permanent and safe haven.
The current anti-China political envirnoment has made the US foster home a dangerous place. Therefore you need back up plans, a well thought out exit strategy.
It is advisable not selling your home or liquidating your assets in Hong Kong and China. If you are wealthy, once you got admitted into the US foster home, some of my clients have found out, US Government forced you to leave part of your assets before allowing your exit permanently (giving up your green card or US Citizenship).
If you are in the field of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), you need to be extremely careful. FBI is watching you carefully once you entered the job market. US Government is taking the attitude that every Chinese in US are potential spies. Some attorneys have recommended if you plan to make the US Foster Home permanent, cut all your ties with Hong Kong and China including your parents, brothers and sisters, cousins and etc, avoid visiting Hong Kong and China. It is also recommended that you do not work for any universities, federal, state and city governments or working for any firms in the high tech areas as defined by the US Department of Commerce and US State Department.
There are also additional risks while living in the Foster Home in US. 80% of the Americans hold negative views toward Chinese and China, simply put “you are not welcome in America”. If you are fine with that racial attack against Chinese and People of Color has increased by 200% last 18 months. Gun violence is common. Unlike in China and Hong Kong, walking on the street after sunset extremely high risk. Drugs illegal in Hong Kong and China are legal in the Foster Home in US. Some of my clients children are hooked. US and State Governments even provide free and comfortable locations for shooting illegal drugs.
If you are unawared of the above, you need to know to properly plan your exit and re-exit strategies. Otherwise you might be stuck in the US Foster Home.
I have lived in US for almost 50 years. If you have children or grand-children 10 years or under, you need to do some good solid research. US is declining fast. The future is in Asia and China. We are witnessing US dollar dominance in decline. Once US dollar no longer the world’s currency unable to weaponize the US dollar. The US Foster Home you are in will fall apart fast. The decline will be gradual, probably takes 20-30 years. Therefore your 10 years old children or grand-children could be living in a third world country when they reached the age of 40. If you have not been to US, take a tour and you will discovered there are more than 2 million homeless and US infrastructures is already a third world country today.
The pasture is not necessary greener on the otherside, think before you leap.
Trustworthy friends; good brothers; sincere partners. These phrases are frequently found in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s phone conversations, letters, messages and talks with leaders of various countries. 值得信賴的朋友; 好兄弟; 真誠的合作夥伴。 這些短語經常出現在中國國家主席習近平同各國領導人的通話、信函、信息和會談中。
This is not just formulaic politeness, but the truth. Over the last seven-plus decades, the number of countries having diplomatic relations with China has increased from 18 in the early days of the People’s Republic of China to 181 today. 這不僅僅是公式化的禮貌,而是事實。 七十多年來,與中國建交的國家從建國初期的18個增加到今天的181個.
HK’s STAND NEWS — A VECTOR OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE 香港立場新聞是外國勢力影響的載體 by Laura Ruggeri, Born in Milan, i have been living in Hong Kong since 1997
On December 29 the Hong Kong police arrested several current and former senior staff members of Stand News. Subsequently the online news outlet decided to shut down its website and social media pages, deleting previous stories.
Since the investigation is still underway it is premature to comment on the nature of the offenses that prompted the police to act, and yet ignorance of details about this operation didn’t stop Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State: he barged in and condemned it as an attack on press freedom. Writing on Twitter he urged Hong Kong authorities to “stop targeting the independent media and release those unjustly detained“.
No one knows how Mr. Blinken could reach the conclusion that Stand News staff are being unjustly detained but Twitter users quickly reminded him that he had never shown any concern for the long imprisonment of Julian Assange whose only “crime” was exposing U.S. war crimes.
Western journalists and several politicians were just as quick to denounce the “crackdown on independent media in Hong Kong” but failed to carry out even the most cursory open source investigation on the professed independence of Stand News.
If they had bothered to join the dots, they would know that this news outlet was anything but independent; in reality it was part of an influence media project conceived and funded by the same foreign forces that attempted a colour revolution in Hong Kong.
Like its English-language counterpart, Hong Kong Free Press, Stand News was established in 2014 in the aftermath of the failed Umbrella Movement. Though ostensibly founded by Tony Tsoi Tung-ho with former House News editors, another person used to take credit for the foundation of both House News and Stand News, that is Hong Kong Free Press co-founder, Evan Fowler.
Over the years the description of the role he played in these outlets has undergone several changes: “co-founder”, “advisor”, “helped to establish”, “director”, “writer”, “contributor”. And though he is no longer listed as a co-founder of these news outlets, one can easily find mention of his initial role on several web pages.
In 2018, when invited to speak at a symposium organized by Waseda Journalism School in Japan, Evan Fowler was introduced as “a Hong Kong native, writer and co-founder of Hong Kong Free Press. He ran the Hong Kong Identity Project between 2007–2015, and has helped establish three online papers, including the Chinese language House News, which at the time of its closure in 2014, was the second most read paper in Hong Kong. Mr. Fowler is now resident in the UK.”
His speech in Japan was titled “Turning People Against People: the Psychology of Localism, Media and Democracy in Hong Kong.”
Establishing and directing three pro-democracy online papers within two years while running a project to study Hong Kong identity with the aim of boosting localist sentiment is a remarkable achievement and one may wonder what motivated Mr. Fowler. Though a more pertinent question would be who motivated him.
When Evan Fowler relocated to the U.K. he started working for the Henry Jackson Society (HJS), a neoconservative, trans-Atlantic think tank run by Alan Mendoza — an unsuccessful Tory candidate at the 2015 general election. Among the initial signatories of the Society’s statement of principles features Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service.
Fowler’s collaboration with the Society may have started before his relocation to the U.K. On 28 September 2018 the Henry Jackson Society and Hong Kong Watch co-hosted a seminar entitled: “The Future of Hong Kong”. The seminar was chaired by John Hemmings and Evan Fowler. Guest speakers included Martin Chu-ming Lee, Benny Yiu-ting Tai, Joseph Yi-zheng Lian, Nathan Kwun-chung Law, Benedict Rogers and Alan Mendoza. The HJS held this seminar in Hong Kong and one may wonder who paid for it in light of the fact that a year earlier, in 2017, the HJS was reportedly receiving around £10,000 a month from the Japanese embassy in London to encourage politicians and journalists to speak out against China’s international political moves.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise given that HJS works closely with people who have been linked to the influence/intelligence network known as Integrity Initiative, a U.K. Foreign & Commonwealth Office operation. One of these people is Bill Browder who lobbied the U.S. Congress to pass the Magnitsky Act, a bill which applies globally and authorizes the U.S. government to sanction those it sees as human rights offenders, freeze their assets, and ban them from entering the U.S. Other intelligence assets straddling between the HJS and Integrity Initiative are Vladimir Ashurkov and Nikita Kulachenkov, prominent members of the Anti-Corruption Foundation set up by Aleksei Navalny. The internal files of Integrity Initiative, leaked by Anonymous in November 2018, reveal that this murky organization, among other things, maintains a clandestine global network of journalists, academics, military and intelligence operatives to identify targets for the Magnitsky Act, lobby governments, spread pro-Western propaganda and encourage more aggressive policies toward Moscow and Beijing.
The director of Asia Studies at HJS is John Hemmings, who is also an adjunct Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a U.S. think tank funded by defense contractors and dominated by members with ties to the State Department and CIA. Hemmings and Fowler have collaborated on several projects and together with well-know Hong Kong agitators they penned a report to lobby the U.K. government. Evan Fowler is so close to these agents of chaos that in 2021 he wrote a book with/for Nathan Law entitled “Freedom — How we lose it and how we fight back.”
Given Evan Fowler’s extensive ties to a powerful influence/intelligence network is little surprise that Stand News was the only Hong Kong media outlet to work with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) to produce reports on the Pandora Papers in October 2021 — a trove of 12 million leaked documents revealing the hidden wealth and tax structures of some of world’s richest and most powerful people. When ICIJ began disseminating selected files to the media, activities like those of ICIJ’s major funders were overlooked. Very few Western corporations and billionaires were scrutinized in the coverage, the investigation focusing instead on countries that didn’t toe the U.S line like Zimbabwe, North Korea, Syria, Russia and China (two former Hong Kong Chief Executives were named in the report.)
Among the financial backers of the ICIJ we find Pierre Omidyar, the Ebay founder who had himself taken advantage of the same tax heavens exposed in the leak.
Over the years, Omidyar, following in the footsteps of George Soros, has invested alongside the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as well as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in strategic locations around the world, NGOs, fact-checking sites, regime-change networks and media outlets. In fact, the NED’s media arm, the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), lists the Omidyar Network as a partner organization.
As to the professional integrity and independence of the ICIJ, one has to look no further than their wholehearted endorsement of Adrian Zenz’s delirious narrative on the nonexistent genocide in Xinjiang.
In light of its collaborations and partnership with ICIJ it is plausible that Stand News was well positioned in the network of intelligence-connected media that have been selected and appointed to conduct information warfare against China, Russia and any sovereign state challenging U.S. hegemony.
US attitudes towards HK riots verses Trump’s supported US Capitol riots very different! U.S. prosecutors arrest over 725 suspects for their fighting for freedom democracy and human rights at home. 美國對香港騷亂的態度與特朗普支持的美國國會騷亂相反! 美國檢察官逮捕了超過 725 名在國內爭取自由民主和人權的愛國者.