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【修例風波】《環時》批評克魯茲「亂港」應受制裁 列禁入境名單
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【星島日報報道】美國參議員克魯茲早前訪港時稱沒有見到示威者的暴力行為，又指香港警察以「暴力鎮壓」，行政長官辦公室回應指，克魯茲的言論實在匪夷所思，批評他不應不負責任地肆意批評香港。《環球時報》發表評論文章，批評美國共和黨參議員克魯茲亂港，應受到制裁，又指克魯茲特意一身黑衣打扮，是標榜自己與香港抗議者站在一起，嘴上說「非暴力」，只是對挺香港暴力示威的掩護。
社評指，克魯茲來港是要阻止理性在這座城市回升，煽動局勢增加熱度，是香港局勢中最突出的破壞性因素之一，讓氣焰已經衰減的示威者產生一縷新幻覺。
社評又指，克魯茲「明目張膽地干涉香港事務」，跟激進示威者絕對是一伙，亦想以此在美國撈取政治資本，讓自己更像個旗手性反華政客。如果美國通過所謂《香港人權與民主法案》，克魯茲這類人亦應被列入禁止訪港黑名單，並受到更多制裁。
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[Sing Tao Daily News] US Senator Cruz said that he did not see the violence of the demonstrators when he visited Hong Kong earlier. He also said that the Hong Kong police had "violent suppression". The Chief Executive’s Office responded that Cruz’s remarks were really ridiculous and he should not be criticized. Irresponsibly criticizing Hong Kong. The Global Times published a commentary criticizing the Republican senator Cruz, who should be sanctioned, and said that Cruz was deliberately dressed in black, flaunting himself as standing with Hong Kong protesters and saying "non-violence". It is just a cover for the violent demonstrations in Hong Kong.
According to the editorial, the arrival of Cruz in Hong Kong is to prevent rationality from picking up in this city and to incite the situation to increase its heat. It is one of the most prominent destructive factors in the situation in Hong Kong, and the demonstrators who have already decayed their anger have a new illusion.
The editorial also pointed out that Cruz "discussed Hong Kong affairs blatantly" and was absolutely a group with radical demonstrators. He also wanted to use this to gain political capital in the United States and make himself more like a flag-bearer anti-China politician. If the United States passes the so-called "Hong Kong Bill of Rights on Human Rights and Democracy," people like Cruz should also be included in the blacklist forbidding visits and subject to more sanctions.
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World Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam ditches meeting Ted Cruz, says the US senator
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and Senator Ted Cruz. (Photo: Tyrone Siu, Joshua Roberts)
12 Oct 2019 10:08PM (Updated: 12 Oct 2019 10:11PM)
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HONG KONG: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam scrapped a meeting with US Senator Ted Cruz, the highest-profile US politician to visit the city since protests broke out more than four months ago, the senator said on Saturday (Oct 12).
Lam's office had requested that the afternoon meeting be completely confidential and that Cruz refrain from speaking with the media about it, Cruz told journalists in Hong Kong.
READ: Petrol bombs thrown in Hong Kong metro, no one injured: Government
READ: Hong Kong protesters defy mask ban as city grinds to halt
"She seems to misunderstand how free speech operates, and also how freedom of the press operates," said Cruz, a Republican senator from Texas and a vocal critic of China who was stopping in Hong Kong for two days as part of a regional tour.
"Ms Lam's cancelling the meeting is not a sign of strength. It's a sign of weakness. It's a sign of fear of the protesters in the streets of Hong Kong."
Responding to a request for details about the scheduled meeting, Lam's office said in an email: "The Chief Executive did not meet with the said US Senator."
For months Hong Kong has been paralyzed by unprecedented protests calling for democracy and against police brutality.
The former British colony was returned to China in 1997 and promised broad autonomy for 50 years under a "one country, two systems" model. But many in Hong Kong accuse Beijing of eroding its freedoms.
On Saturday, demonstrators took to the streets again, and the government said petrol bombs were thrown inside a Hong Kong metro station.
"I stand with the people of Hong Kong calling on the government of China to honor the promises it made to the world when it promised to maintain political freedom in Hong Kong," said Cruz, who wore black to show support for the black-clad protest movement.
Asked if he condemned violence that has flared during the protests, Cruz said he advocated non-violent protest with the protesters and democracy activists he had met.
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Cruz said he believed Chinese President Xi Jinping was "terrified of millions of people in Hong Kong, but even more than that, millions of people in China yearning to live free".
Those fears were "magnified on the world stage" by China's response to a tweet by a US basketball executive supporting Hong Kong's protesters, he said.
China has accused the West of stirring up anti-Beijing sentiment in Hong Kong, and Chinese state media characterized the Houston Rockets general manager's tweet as the latest example of meddling in China's affairs.
READ: NBA game to go ahead in China despite free speech row
"Had the Chinese government simply ignored the tweet, in all likelihood virtually nobody other than die-hard Rockets fans like me would have noticed the tweet," he said.
"But President Xi's fear and insecurity, combined with arrogance, a belief that economic blackmail could force the NBA (National Basketball Association) to be witting participants in global censorship, ended up ironically highlighting the message far more than it ever would have otherwise."
There is "overwhelming bipartisan support" in the US Congress for the people of Hong Kong, and Cruz said he was pressing for the Senate to take up and pass the Hong Kong Human Rights Act quickly.
Asked if it was more important now than ever to pass the act, he said: "Absolutely, yes."
The act includes measures like annual reviews of the Chinese territory's special economic status and the imposition of sanctions on those who undermine its autonomy.
"We should continue to look for tools to stand up for human rights and for democracy and to speak clearly against repression and torture and murder," he said.
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says US senator Ted Cruz's criticism 'not based on facts'
In her statement, Carrie Lam said that media outlets have clearly shown that anti-government protesters "conducted violent and vandalistic acts on many occasions in Hong Kong in recent months."PHOTO: REUTERS
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HONG KONG (DPA) - Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has rejected United States Senator Ted Cruz's claim that she cancelled a meeting with him because he refused to meet under "closed door" terms.
In a statement issued Sunday (Oct 13) night, a spokesman for Mrs Lam called the Republican lawmaker's assertion that demonstrators had acted non-violently in the last five months of protests "baffling".
"While we respect the freedom of speech of foreign politicians, we consider that comments should be based on facts," the statement said.
Mr Cruz, one of China's most vocal critics in the US Senate, is the most prominent American politician to visit the territory since the protest movement began in June.
Mr Cruz said Mrs Lam scrapped their scheduled meeting on Saturday when he refused to keep their discussions confidential. Mrs Lam's spokesman said the meeting had to be cancelled because another "commitment" came up.
The senator from Texas met protest leaders on Saturday morning in a bid to encourage them to continue their cause in a non-violent manner. Addressing the press, Mr Cruz urged protesters to consider the consequences of using violent tactics.
"There is a reason the Communist Party in China wants the Hong Kong protests to turn violent because the Chinese Communist Party very much wants to characterise these protests as violent acts of terrorism rather than democracy protesters standing up for human rights," he said.
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Next week, the US Senate will vote on a Bill championed by Mr Cruz that requires the US to annually assess Hong Kong's autonomy from China as a precondition to its special economic status. The Bill is expected to pass.
In her statement, Mrs Lam said that media outlets have clearly shown that anti-government protesters "conducted violent and vandalistic acts on many occasions in Hong Kong in recent months".
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Hours before Mrs Lam's rebuttal, a local officer responding to a criminal damage complaint in Kwun Tong district was wounded by a protester who slashed him in the back of the neck with a "sharp object", according to police.
The officer was conscious when he arrived at a nearby hospital. Two arrests were made on the scene. Video footage circulating on Twitter shows police pepper-spraying civilians on numerous occasions throughout the evening.
Earlier in the day, hundreds of protesters had amassed in all 18 districts of Hong Kong to decry a recent ban on face coverings that Mrs Lam invoked under an emergency ordinance. Police responded with mass arrests, angering protesters and residents alike as many of the arrests seemed arbitrary, according to bystanders.
Tear gas was employed in at least two districts, including the embattled Mong Kok district, where protesters had erected lattices with long bamboo poles across major roadways to block traffic.
Radical protesters in some districts fought back with petrol bombs and bricks. According to police, "rioters hurled objects" onto train tracks at Sha Tin station around 3pm while the station was in use, resulting in various station closures.
In malls across the territory, hundreds gathered to demonstrate, singing the protest song "Glory to Hong Kong" and chanting the newest slogan of the movement "Hong Kongers resist!". A handful of protesters vandalised shops with ties to Beijing in the upscale Taikoo Shopping Centre, while hundreds peacefully demonstrated in another section of the centre.
Perhaps the most unique gathering of the day took place on Sunday morning atop Lion Rock, the highest peak in the city's urban Kowloon peninsula. There they placed a 4m-tall "Lady Liberty" statue that depicts a female protester in full gear, holding a bilingual banner that reads "Revolution of our time, Liberate Hong Kong".
The protests first broke out over a now-defunct extradition Bill that would have allowed Hong Kong residents to be extradited to China, but the demands of the movement have grown to include universal suffrage and an independent inquiry into police violence against protesters.
【修例風波】《環時》批評克魯茲「亂港」應受制裁 列禁入境名單
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24.8k 人追蹤
2019年10月14日 上午10:13
環時批評克魯茲(小圖)應被列入禁止訪港黑名單。 資料圖片及環時網站圖
【星島日報報道】美國參議員克魯茲早前訪港時稱沒有見到示威者的暴力行為，又指香港警察以「暴力鎮壓」，行政長官辦公室回應指，克魯茲的言論實在匪夷所思，批評他不應不負責任地肆意批評香港。《環球時報》發表評論文章，批評美國共和黨參議員克魯茲亂港，應受到制裁，又指克魯茲特意一身黑衣打扮，是標榜自己與香港抗議者站在一起，嘴上說「非暴力」，只是對挺香港暴力示威的掩護。
社評指，克魯茲來港是要阻止理性在這座城市回升，煽動局勢增加熱度，是香港局勢中最突出的破壞性因素之一，讓氣焰已經衰減的示威者產生一縷新幻覺。
社評又指，克魯茲「明目張膽地干涉香港事務」，跟激進示威者絕對是一伙，亦想以此在美國撈取政治資本，讓自己更像個旗手性反華政客。如果美國通過所謂《香港人權與民主法案》，克魯茲這類人亦應被列入禁止訪港黑名單，並受到更多制裁。
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[Amendment] The "Ring Time" criticizes Cruz's "lost port" should be sanctioned
[Sing Tao Daily]
Sing Tao Daily
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October 14, 2019, 10:13 am
Criticism of Cruze (small map) should be included in the blacklist of prohibited visits. Data picture and ring time website map
[Sing Tao Daily News] US Senator Cruz said that he did not see the violence of the demonstrators when he visited Hong Kong earlier. He also said that the Hong Kong police had "violent suppression". The Chief Executive’s Office responded that Cruz’s remarks were really ridiculous and he should not be criticized. Irresponsibly criticizing Hong Kong. The Global Times published a commentary criticizing the Republican senator Cruz, who should be sanctioned, and said that Cruz was deliberately dressed in black, flaunting himself as standing with Hong Kong protesters and saying "non-violence". It is just a cover for the violent demonstrations in Hong Kong.
According to the editorial, the arrival of Cruz in Hong Kong is to prevent rationality from picking up in this city and to incite the situation to increase its heat. It is one of the most prominent destructive factors in the situation in Hong Kong, and the demonstrators who have already decayed their anger have a new illusion.
The editorial also pointed out that Cruz "discussed Hong Kong affairs blatantly" and was absolutely a group with radical demonstrators. He also wanted to use this to gain political capital in the United States and make himself more like a flag-bearer anti-China politician. If the United States passes the so-called "Hong Kong Bill of Rights on Human Rights and Democracy," people like Cruz should also be included in the blacklist forbidding visits and subject to more sanctions.
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World Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam ditches meeting Ted Cruz, says the US senator
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and Senator Ted Cruz. (Photo: Tyrone Siu, Joshua Roberts)
12 Oct 2019 10:08PM (Updated: 12 Oct 2019 10:11PM)
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HONG KONG: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam scrapped a meeting with US Senator Ted Cruz, the highest-profile US politician to visit the city since protests broke out more than four months ago, the senator said on Saturday (Oct 12).
Lam's office had requested that the afternoon meeting be completely confidential and that Cruz refrain from speaking with the media about it, Cruz told journalists in Hong Kong.
READ: Petrol bombs thrown in Hong Kong metro, no one injured: Government
READ: Hong Kong protesters defy mask ban as city grinds to halt
"She seems to misunderstand how free speech operates, and also how freedom of the press operates," said Cruz, a Republican senator from Texas and a vocal critic of China who was stopping in Hong Kong for two days as part of a regional tour.
"Ms Lam's cancelling the meeting is not a sign of strength. It's a sign of weakness. It's a sign of fear of the protesters in the streets of Hong Kong."
Responding to a request for details about the scheduled meeting, Lam's office said in an email: "The Chief Executive did not meet with the said US Senator."
For months Hong Kong has been paralyzed by unprecedented protests calling for democracy and against police brutality.
The former British colony was returned to China in 1997 and promised broad autonomy for 50 years under a "one country, two systems" model. But many in Hong Kong accuse Beijing of eroding its freedoms.
On Saturday, demonstrators took to the streets again, and the government said petrol bombs were thrown inside a Hong Kong metro station.
"I stand with the people of Hong Kong calling on the government of China to honor the promises it made to the world when it promised to maintain political freedom in Hong Kong," said Cruz, who wore black to show support for the black-clad protest movement.
Asked if he condemned violence that has flared during the protests, Cruz said he advocated non-violent protest with the protesters and democracy activists he had met.
BASKETBALL TWEET BACKLASH
Cruz said he believed Chinese President Xi Jinping was "terrified of millions of people in Hong Kong, but even more than that, millions of people in China yearning to live free".
Those fears were "magnified on the world stage" by China's response to a tweet by a US basketball executive supporting Hong Kong's protesters, he said.
China has accused the West of stirring up anti-Beijing sentiment in Hong Kong, and Chinese state media characterized the Houston Rockets general manager's tweet as the latest example of meddling in China's affairs.
READ: NBA game to go ahead in China despite free speech row
"Had the Chinese government simply ignored the tweet, in all likelihood virtually nobody other than die-hard Rockets fans like me would have noticed the tweet," he said.
"But President Xi's fear and insecurity, combined with arrogance, a belief that economic blackmail could force the NBA (National Basketball Association) to be witting participants in global censorship, ended up ironically highlighting the message far more than it ever would have otherwise."
There is "overwhelming bipartisan support" in the US Congress for the people of Hong Kong, and Cruz said he was pressing for the Senate to take up and pass the Hong Kong Human Rights Act quickly.
Asked if it was more important now than ever to pass the act, he said: "Absolutely, yes."
The act includes measures like annual reviews of the Chinese territory's special economic status and the imposition of sanctions on those who undermine its autonomy.
"We should continue to look for tools to stand up for human rights and for democracy and to speak clearly against repression and torture and murder," he said.
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says US senator Ted Cruz's criticism 'not based on facts'
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Oct 14, 2019, 12:21 am SGT
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HONG KONG (DPA) - Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has rejected United States Senator Ted Cruz's claim that she cancelled a meeting with him because he refused to meet under "closed door" terms.
In a statement issued Sunday (Oct 13) night, a spokesman for Mrs Lam called the Republican lawmaker's assertion that demonstrators had acted non-violently in the last five months of protests "baffling".
"While we respect the freedom of speech of foreign politicians, we consider that comments should be based on facts," the statement said.
Mr Cruz, one of China's most vocal critics in the US Senate, is the most prominent American politician to visit the territory since the protest movement began in June.
Mr Cruz said Mrs Lam scrapped their scheduled meeting on Saturday when he refused to keep their discussions confidential. Mrs Lam's spokesman said the meeting had to be cancelled because another "commitment" came up.
The senator from Texas met protest leaders on Saturday morning in a bid to encourage them to continue their cause in a non-violent manner. Addressing the press, Mr Cruz urged protesters to consider the consequences of using violent tactics.
"There is a reason the Communist Party in China wants the Hong Kong protests to turn violent because the Chinese Communist Party very much wants to characterise these protests as violent acts of terrorism rather than democracy protesters standing up for human rights," he said.
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Next week, the US Senate will vote on a Bill championed by Mr Cruz that requires the US to annually assess Hong Kong's autonomy from China as a precondition to its special economic status. The Bill is expected to pass.
In her statement, Mrs Lam said that media outlets have clearly shown that anti-government protesters "conducted violent and vandalistic acts on many occasions in Hong Kong in recent months".
Related Story
Hong Kong protests: A family divided, a mum in anguish
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Interactive: The march of Hong Kong's protest movement
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Lady Liberty rallies pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong
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Protest rally to take place on Monday, the first approved by police since Hong Kong's mask ban kicks in
Hours before Mrs Lam's rebuttal, a local officer responding to a criminal damage complaint in Kwun Tong district was wounded by a protester who slashed him in the back of the neck with a "sharp object", according to police.
The officer was conscious when he arrived at a nearby hospital. Two arrests were made on the scene. Video footage circulating on Twitter shows police pepper-spraying civilians on numerous occasions throughout the evening.
Earlier in the day, hundreds of protesters had amassed in all 18 districts of Hong Kong to decry a recent ban on face coverings that Mrs Lam invoked under an emergency ordinance. Police responded with mass arrests, angering protesters and residents alike as many of the arrests seemed arbitrary, according to bystanders.
Tear gas was employed in at least two districts, including the embattled Mong Kok district, where protesters had erected lattices with long bamboo poles across major roadways to block traffic.
Radical protesters in some districts fought back with petrol bombs and bricks. According to police, "rioters hurled objects" onto train tracks at Sha Tin station around 3pm while the station was in use, resulting in various station closures.
In malls across the territory, hundreds gathered to demonstrate, singing the protest song "Glory to Hong Kong" and chanting the newest slogan of the movement "Hong Kongers resist!". A handful of protesters vandalised shops with ties to Beijing in the upscale Taikoo Shopping Centre, while hundreds peacefully demonstrated in another section of the centre.
Perhaps the most unique gathering of the day took place on Sunday morning atop Lion Rock, the highest peak in the city's urban Kowloon peninsula. There they placed a 4m-tall "Lady Liberty" statue that depicts a female protester in full gear, holding a bilingual banner that reads "Revolution of our time, Liberate Hong Kong".
The protests first broke out over a now-defunct extradition Bill that would have allowed Hong Kong residents to be extradited to China, but the demands of the movement have grown to include universal suffrage and an independent inquiry into police violence against protesters.
