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  • He Never Intended To Become A Political Dissident, But Then He Started Beating Up Tai Chi Masters

    10/06/2019 1:55:45 PM PDT · by PIF · 26 replies
    Dead Spin ^ | Thursday 11:12am | Lauren Teixeira
    On a recent Thursday evening in August, a 40-year-old MMA gym owner in Beijing named Xu Xiaodong activated his VPN, hopped over the Chinese government’s internet firewall, and began his first-ever live YouTube broadcast. He wanted to talk about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, in which hundreds of thousands of citizens have demonstrated against mainland China’s attempts to circumvent Hong Kong’s autonomy and civil liberties. Xu looked into the camera and took a stance on the protests that few, if any, of his countrymen living on the mainland were willing to publicly take: “Hong Kong people are Chinese. I...