Nury Vittachi
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Nury Vittachi is a writer based in Hong Kong, editor of , news of Asia without the Western lens
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OOOPS! Fox News is running a clip about brave Israeli soldiers capturing a Palestinian in gray underpants, but the report accidentally includes a shot of the actor playing the Palestinian getting dressed afterwards!
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WHY I AM RESIGNING FROM THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT
By Annelle Sheline, PhD.
SINCE HAMAS’ ATTACK on October 7, Israel has used American bombs in its war in Gaza, which has killed more than 32,000 people — 13,000 of them children — with countless others buried under the rubble,
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Incredible: U.S. police have arrested more protesters in just two weeks, than the Hong Kong police arrested in four violent months in 2019
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YES, NATO CAUSED THE PRESENT DISASTER IN LIBYA
Here’s a timeline of what really happened.
In March of 2011, US intelligence claimed there was a popular uprising in Libya and asked the UN to okay a temporary no-fly zone over Libya to protect the citizens.
China, India, Brazil,
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AARON BUSHNELL: THREE STATEMENTS NOT BEING REPORTED
The media is reporting that a US airman named Aaron Bushnell set himself alight and died "in a protest against the Israel-Hamas war" (MSNBC).
It’s not true. Journalists, please LISTEN.
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1) "What would I do if my country was
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THE RULES-BASED ORDER
1. The USA rules the world.
2. The USA makes all rules including these rules.
3. No one can know what the rules are, only that they exist.
4. No one is allowed to ask what the rules are.
5. The USA will be in charge of the flexibility provided by the rules’
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The United States spied on the United Nations’ leader in direct contravention of international law, it was revealed yesterday. Detailed private communications between UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and his staff are shown by the Pentagon files leak.
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The western media is
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@randomyoko
Yoko is hoping that no one reaches for a historic book, no one talks to their grandparents, no one does any research, no one checks records. She's wrong. Asians remember
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In 2010, a young soldier named Mike Prysner became a legend for a spontaneous speech saying that the US military fights wars not out of principle, but for Wall St and defense contractors. Today, the truth he spoke is widely known.
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THE WESTERN NARRATIVE SHIFTS
1) There are no Nazis in Ukraine.
2) There are only a few Nazis in Ukraine.
3) Ukraine’s deep Nazism is totally understandable.
4) It’s not like Ukrainians signed up for elite Nazi squads like the SS.
5) Okay, so Ukrainians did sign up for elite Nazi
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BAD KARMA HIT the UK’s nuclear power plans this week after the Brits kicked out their Chinese partners.
Their hostile action in 2022 left Britain's nuclear hopes (now extremely late and over-budget) in the hands of a French company—which has just announced that it has run out of
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THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT XINJIANG
At a little-noticed military conference in August 2018, strategist Col Lawrence Wilkerson revealed, live on stage, in front of cameras, the three real reasons why a huge US army force was 12,000 kilometers away from home in Afghanistan.
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I mocked up an FT headline to save time because their writers like to blame China for everything
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TRANSCRIPTS OF VLADIMIR PUTIN'S RESPONSES TO TUCKER CARLSON'S QUESTIONS:
U.S. TRYING TO WEAKEN RUSSIA BUT IS MORE SCARED OF CHINA
“The West is more afraid of strong China than it fears a strong Russia, because Russia has 150 million people, and China has 1.5 billion population -
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In just 75 seconds, here's evidence of astonishing hypocrisy over the slaughter in Gaza, plus proof that the US acts as a global bully with six examples of economic coercion.
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A photographer has gone viral for his efforts in showing people how to pose
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Ai Weiwei's exhibitions in London, New York, Paris and Berlin have been cancelled after he wrote a post on the Gaza situation on social media. He deleted it, but it was too late.
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Nancy Pelosi said on TV that people calling for a ceasefire are doing the work of "Mr Putin", and offscreen, she told ceasefire campaigners to "go back to China". What this shows, IMHO, is that US leaders fearmonger using a generalised homogenous block of "bad guys"
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THE DALAI LAMA is back in the news--and not for a good reason. People will make up their own minds about his over-friendly physical behaviour in an attempt to "French-kiss" a young Indian boy.
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But I thought people might be interested in a catch-up on what his position is,
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This is such a brilliant speech. The US is using Taiwan to create needless and highly dangerous conflict, Scott Horton says. TRUTH. And listen to the audience reaction -- people get it. It's politicians and journalists who appear to be utterly blind to this.
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I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP
Compare these Chinese and US lists:
China on Thursday said it was deeply concerned about deaths of innocent women and children in Gaza and is providing 15 million yuan (US$2.05 million) of aid to the people living in Gaza through the China International
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Interesting! Europeans have FINALLY noticed that their economies are struggling while their public money, under US orders, is being diverted to the west's arms industry. Here's a rough English translation of a speech by Marc Botenga (PTB Belgique)
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Big drama in the tennis world after China's Zhang Shuai's ball hit a chalk line. Her opponent scrubbed off the mark with her shoe while the crowd jeered at the young Chinese woman, who burst into tears and abandoned the game. Tennis fans, east and west, are standing with her.
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OOPS. This is the moment yesterday when the US rep accidentally voted IN FAVOR of a boost in humanitarian aid for Gaza! Luckily she was quickly set right, so she could withdraw her hand and choose to NOT support it instead.
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The UK administration just approved the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to United States. The BBC buried the story low in the news cycle. Had China extradited a journalist, it would been the lead item, for sure.
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US POLITICOS WANT HALT TO XINJIANG VISITS
Americans are visiting Xinjiang to see it for themselves—and must be prevented from doing so, US politicians demanded this week.
At least 18 European travel companies are now offering tours to the area in northwestern China, where
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When a country rises peacefully, it should be encouraged, not slapped down. This short talk by Eric Xun Li has gone viral and deservedly so
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This is the shocking moment just minutes ago when the United States defied the world by vetoing a global call for an end to the horrific slaughter and destruction in Gaza. Again.
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Why does the international media endlessly demonize China? Because the west is locked into their “end of history” thesis, which says that the world’s adoption of the western political model will cause all conflict to end. But it's clearly quite wrong, says top prof Zhang Weiwei
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I made a quick compilation of athletes' comments from the Beijing Olympics, so lovely to hear
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Chinese government: "There are hundreds of protests a day in our country. We call them mass events."
Tsinghua University researchers: "Yep, we checked, there are 490 protests a day across China."
Western Journalists: A PROTEST! IN CHINA! THIS IS TOTALLY UNPRECEDENTED!
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BREAKING NEWS: Chinese scientists are about to launch three different lines of sodium-powered cars. They will be cheaper than regular cars or electric vehicles—which is why environmentalists hope they’ll kickstart mass market adoption of clean energy travel.
Three Chinese firms,
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WHILE CHINA BUILDS SCHOOLS AND AIRPORTS IN PNG, US MILITARY SIGNS SECRET DEAL FOR WAR BASE
THE BRUTAL MISSION by the United States to rule Asia and threaten China took another step forward in Papua New Guinea this week – but ordinary people are fighting back.
The US signed a
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INVESTIGATORS FOILED A MASSIVE terrorist-grade attack on Hong Kong involving bombs, US firearms, and a sniper, it will be revealed this week.
The assault was designed to cause multiple casualties and major destruction in Wan Chai, a densely populated area on Hong Kong island.
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THE LIES AUSTRALIANS ARE TOLD ABOUT CHINA
By Michael Pascoe
A major economic milepost was passed last year when China started exporting more to the rest of the world than it did to “the West”.
The US-led attempt to isolate China is demonstrably failing, but Australians tend to
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You can’t denounce the killing of innocents by killing innocents.
You can’t weep for dead children while firing missiles at live children.
You can’t call for restraint while sending warships to a war zone.
You can’t claim the moral high ground while cutting electricity to
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10 VITAL QUOTES FROM THE LATE JOHN PILGER
John Pilger, the investigative anti-war journalist who spoke up for China and humiliated the western corporate media, had died—and every single report on this in the western media I have seen has carefully omitted this fact.
Here are
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@markets
Bloomberg's underlying Sinophobic "west is best" message is laid on so thick now that I think John Pilger was right: It's plain, simple racism
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China is now sure to collapse, says Krugman in the NYT this month. He said the same thing ten years ago. The pictured prediction of his came from 2013
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Oops. EPIC FAIL at the New York Times this week.
They published a long spiel implying that peace campaign groups, such as
@NoColdWar
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@codepink
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Today’s scenes of violence and arson in France remind me of many terrifying nights I spent on Hong Kong streets during 2019.
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Hope the French don’t go in the direction of what happened in my home city. At the entrance to a Wan Chai school at which I had given an author talk, 10
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In Shenzhen, they found a simple, cheap answer to a problem that had stumped the motoring world for years
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OOPS! The U.S. has repeatedly cut China out of global processes--but the attacks have backfired, as the Chinese reacted by building their own paths! This 1m49s video includes many "before and after" headlines which people are welcome to lift for their own purposes
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INVESTIGATORS REVEAL JIMMY LAI MONEY TRAIL
Huge amounts of international money flowed into the bank accounts of Jimmy Lai—and large sums of cash went out to anti-China groups, a court heard yesterday.
The tabloid publisher received HK$2.945 billion in his nine bank accounts in
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A wacky dance from a wedding in Guangxi, China, has gone global, with billions of people across the world learning it. The curious thing is that both the dance steps and the music have a strong rural Chinese flavor, yet are still enjoyed planet-wide, from Asia to Europe to Africa
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True story: They wouldn't let him appear by Zoom. I mean, it's not as if there's a pandemic and a climate crisis on or anything
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MILEI FLIPS ON CHINA
Argentina’s new leader yesterday suddenly changed course to cosy up to China—despite the harsh threats of severed relationships that he had made before the election.
Javier Milei immediately sent a letter to Chinese leader Xi Jinping asking for the renewal
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Chinese officials used to be uniformly awful in the old days, but there are some bright sparks today.
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VICTORIA'S SECRET: The most quoted phrase from US conflict specialist Victoria Nuland, who just resigned, was “F*** the EU.”
She has succeeded!
· Europe is at war.
· Germany has lost its industrial base.
· All EU countries are diverting cash to US weapons-makers
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@RnaudBertrand
Thank you for this, Arnaud. The somersaults and backflips that NYT writers do to make America the hero and China the bad guy are getting so extreme that they genuinely make me laugh. Another sitcom idea, methinks!
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I've worked for the western media most of my life and this is literally their idea of logic
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Brazil and China are ditching the US dollar to make trade deals in their own currencies, it was revealed last night.
At the same time, ASEAN Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors are meeting in Indonesia to discuss ways to reduce dependence on the US Dollar, Euro, Yen, and
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You get the biggest Chinese star in the world in your studio and what do you ask him? (prepare to cringe)
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RUMORS SWIRL OVER AMERICAN ‘HEIST’ OF TAIWAN CHIP FACTORY
The daring US operation to grab TSMC and move it across the Pacific is still facing obstacles, analysts warned this week.
The struggling company announced the retirement of chairman Mark Liu on December 18, but several
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Literally hundreds of millions of readers of papers from the Times of London to the New York Post are being told that Chinese warplanes flew over Taiwan. Not true
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This is a joke, but it's also true. The US-friendly leader in the African nation of Niger has been kicked out and the Pentagon is not happy
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ANTI-CHINA PROTESTERS in Hong Kong were flown to Taiwan for military training before returning with plans to kill people with bombs and firearms, a court heard yesterday. They tested their equipment in rural Sai Kung, but planned to launch a terrorist-style attack in densely
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The press repeatedly reports that China’s economy is slowing down. But it hides the reason: the US is attacking it in a way that clearly violates WTO rules, says Prof Jeffrey Sachs
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THE US IS SLOWING CHINA'S ECONOMY, AND VIOLATING WTO RULES
By Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
China’s economy
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Professor Jeffrey Sachs told interviewer Justice Napolitano this week that the reports about the US "giving advice to Israel to try not to hurt civilians" is not the story. The story is that the US is supplying the bombs being dropped, in real time:
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15 ways BRICS will change the world -- by fixing harmful distortions that give huge levels of power to a country that elected itself "world policeman" while having just 4 per cent of the planet's population
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FIVE times America LOST its allies THIS WEEK
1) Today, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand DEFIED the US by joining China, India and the rest of the world in voting for a UN resolution calling for an immediate halt to the Israeli onslaught in Gaza.
2) The leaders of six major
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OOPS! The Financial Times accidentally confirmed what the Chinese have been saying from day one -- the balloons ARE weather balloons
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For years, we've been told that China makes fentanyl, a deadly drug that is killing huge numbers of people in America. But it's not true. China was the first place to ban production. Opioids are now made in the Americas -- and increasingly exported to Asia-Pacific.
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DYING WHISTLEBLOWER’S LAST INTERVIEW
The United States is still running a covert global empire, said Daniel Ellsberg, known as the “father of whistleblowing”, in a final interview.
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And we are “on the edge of blowing up the world over Crimea or Taiwan or Bakhmut”, he warned.
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RADIO FREE ASIA ‘FLEES’ HONG KONG: REPORT
ARTICLE 23 has apparently won a huge victory for Hong Kong people—even before it has come into effect.
Anti-China propaganda outfit Radio Free Asia will close its Hong Kong office, HK01 reported yesterday. It will disband at the end of
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WHILE PEOPLE AROUND the world express horror and the loss of life in Israel/ Palestine, it’s important to remember this: Collective punishment measures are illegal.
Netanyahu has launched punishments on an entire group of two million individuals. These retaliatory actions, which
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@JamesCleverly
James Cleverly pushes a thoroughly debunked genocide narrative while AT THE SAME TIME, his government refuses to support a UN resolution to block an ACTUAL GENOCIDE that we are all seeing in real time. US/UK reputation absolutely cannot survive this
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The people who live in Asia DEFINITELY do not want a war. But I decided to collect examples of headlines from western media, who seem to be excitedly looking forward to a war in Asia -- there are lots of examples and the Financial Times is probably the most shocking warmonger
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At the kangaroo court on numbers of victims of China's concentration camps taking place today, there was a grimly funny moment of cringe! Thanks
@RnaudBertrand
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People need to know the dark truth about Amnesty International. I was the speaker at an Amnesty AGM in Hong Kong some years ago. Now I wouldn’t trust a single thing they say. Here's what their staff have been getting up to in this part of the world:
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So I saw how they wrote about Rishi Sunak and how they wrote about Xi Jinping -- and then I mocked up a copy of the newspaper with an article about Sunak in the style they write about Xi!
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Germany's leader is in China. He's defying the US over the Huawei ban, refusing to take the protectionist route in the global car business, and is bringing record capital investment to China
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Everything humanity needs to know about trust and co-operation is in this 40 second video
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The Chinese view of Hong Kong is that it was stolen at gunpoint during the Opium wars and never stopped being part of China. This fact has been in history books for ever. But the western media is freshly outraged to read it, reporters apparently having never read a history book!
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The world has gone mad. The mainstream media refuses to use the word "genocide" for an actual genocide but is happy to use it for perceived "adversaries" of the USA
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You can literally mention awful things that the CIA HAS FULLY ADMITTED THAT IT DID, and half the respondents will call you a commie spy conspiracy theorist ccp tankie
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#PengShuai
The Internet is having fun highlighting the difference between the extreme Sinophobia of the Western media and Peng's own words and actions
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O, America:
You have needlessly alienated almost one fifth of humanity, the Chinese, in exchange for the loyalty of a tiny, rapidly crumbling political party in Taiwan.
You have needlessly created enmity with the world’s largest country, Russia, in exchange for the loyalty of a
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I was happy to hang out with Prof Jeffrey Sachs today, who is as wise and good-natured a person as one could hope for. Sachs said he loves Hong Kong and is upbeat about the region's future.
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US OFFICIALS QUIETLY told anti-China activist Jimmy Lai Chee-ying to halt the spiralling violence of the 2019 Hong Kong protests but he struggled to do so, a court heard from a “go-between” this week.
And then a large group of activists who had taken over a university
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Front page of today's New York Times obliterates any claim of impartiality its staff can ever make
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Anti-China activist Jimmy Lai went to the US to meet top war hawks in 2019—and then returned to tell his newspaper staff to make it seem like the Hong Kong and mainland China governments were to blame for the violent protests roiling the city, a court heard.
The billionaire
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