Posted on 11/19/2019 2:00:37 PM PST by Liberty7732
Four masked intruders dressed in black set fire to the printing press of the Hong Kong edition of The Epoch Times in the early hours of Nov. 19, marking the fourth attack on the facility since its opening more than a decade ago. The attack is believed to be the latest instance of efforts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to silence The Epoch Times.
A spokesperson for the edition, Cheryl Ng, strongly condemned the incident, saying it had the hallmarks of tactics employed by the CCP, aimed to intimidate the outlet from reporting on topics deemed sensitive to the regime.
The newspaper is one of the few independent outlets in Hong Kong, and is known for covering internal factional politics within the Party, as well as the regime’s suppression of freedoms both at home and abroad. It has also provided extensive independent coverage of the ongoing pro-democracy movement.
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Happens here in the US by antifa
A Newspaper Banned In China Is Now One Of Trump’s Biggest Defenders
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hayesbrown/epoch-times-trump-administration-falun-gong
They set fire to a (Xerox)copying machine?
well someone over there in the boogaloo have their priorities straight...
Epoch Times is fantastic. I’m taking their newspaper and love their youtube channel. Excellent content. They are exposing Communist China tactics both abroad and right here in US, and around the world. Recommend highly.
Bump
“Happens here in the US by antifa”
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In Hong Kong, it’s the Communist Party enforcers - the CCP hates the Epoch Times.
Same thing
Ideologically,in HK, the CCP = “antifa”, while the “protesters” = deplorables.
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