https://nypost.com/2020/06/03/mysterious-new-federal-state-of-china-banners-seen-over-nyc/
Mysterious ‘Federal State of New China’ banners seen on planes over NYC
A mysterious fleet of propeller planes was spotted flying banners over New York on Wednesday congratulating a “Federal State of New China.”
Puzzled and exasperated New Yorkers spotted the banners from Manhattan, flying over the Hudson, and down over Red Hook in Brooklyn.
“I officially have no idea what the f–k is happening anymore,” one person tweeted with an image of the planes over New York Harbor.
The banners appear to be a bizarre stunt against the Chinese Communist Party launched by Steve Bannon and a fugitive Chinese billionaire, who together on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre declared the Chinese government illegitimate.
“From today the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will no longer be the lawful government of China,” the billionaire, Guo Wengui, shouted into a livestream from a boat in New York Harbor, with Bannon by his side and the Statue of Liberty in the background.
“I’m here to tell everybody that loves peace, law, humanitarian — we’re going to end the Communist Party once and for all. We got hundreds of countries of support,” Guo claimed.
Onlookers on Twitter said they noticed as many as eight planes carrying banners, some with the message “Congratulations to Federal State of New China!”
Guo, a frequent critic of China, has recently been pushing coronavirus theories alleging the virus began in a Chinese lab.
He was described by the New York Times Magazine as a mysterious exiled businessman lobbing “impossible-to-verify” accusations at China’s ruling elite, photographed in the feature in a white suit and holding a Pomeranian.
Trump’s former chief strategist joins Guo in a chant of “Take down the CCP!” before Guo kisses Bannon on the cheek.
Bannon goes on to accuse China of causing “great bloodshed in Hong Kong” and, without evidence, “unleash[ing]” the coronavirus on the world before reading a declaration of the Federal State of New China.
“Recently it unleashed a biological attack on the free countries of the world, the CCP virus, through their incompetence and their corruption and their cover-up,” Bannon said.
“The Chinese Communist Party is a gangster organization with no legitimacy,” he added.
John Sifton, Asia advocacy director at the nonprofit Human Rights Watch, noticed the planes over Brooklyn.
“None of us have any idea what the f is going on,” he tweeted after consulting his colleagues.
“Apparently it has something to do with Steve Bannon but it still makes no sense.”
https://twitter.com/johnsifton/status/1268311619999805442
June 3rd
um a set of small airplanes are flying over Red Hook Brooklyn toward downtown Manhattan pulling signs that say “Congratulations to the New Federal State of China!” I work on Asia for @HRW (and consulted with our China director) and none of us have any idea what the f is going on
wow can you spell anything
https://apnews.com/article/ontario-diplomacy-justin-trudeau-hong-kong-immigration-6862ce0584c7e472dbf6de2698385ae8
Trudeau: Canada won’t stop calling for human rights in China
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday his government will not stop standing up for human rights in China.
On Thursday, the Chinese ambassador to Canada warned Ottawa against granting asylum to Hong Kong residents fleeing the situation. Cong Peiwu said if Canada cares about 300,000 Canadian citizens in Hong Kong — and Canadian companies doing business there — it should support efforts to fight what he called fight violent crime.
“We will stand up loudly and clearly for human rights,” Trudeau said. “Whether it’s talking about the situation faced by the Uighurs, whether it’s talking about the very concerning situation in Hong Kong, whether it’s calling out China for its coercive diplomacy.”
Trudeau said Canada stands with with allies around the world and the United States, to Australia, to Great Britain, to European nations to many nations around the world who share these concerns.
Canada’s opposition Conservative leader said the Chinese ambassador should apologize or be expelled from Canada.
“The Chinese ambassador has decided to engage in belligerent rhetoric unbecoming of his office,” Conservative leader Erin O’Toole said in a written statement. “To be clear, this was a threat to the 300,000 Canadians in Hong Kong. And a barely veiled one at that. It was of the kind of tone and tenor one would expect from someone seeking protection money — not someone who is the official emissary of a member of the United Nations Security
The government should also swiftly set up a “path” for political refugees to come to Canada from Hong Kong and impose sanctions on Chinese officials over the national security law, O’Toole added.
Protests against the Hong Kong and mainland Chinese governments swelled last year, and Beijing clamped down on expressions of antigovernment sentiment in the city with a new national security law that took effect June 30.
The law outlaws subversive, secessionist, and terrorist activity, as well as collusion with foreign powers to interfere in the city’s internal affairs. The U.S., Britain and Canada accuse China of infringing on the city’s freedoms.
Trudeau also said China is engaging in coercive diplomacy by imprisoning two Canadian men in retaliation for the arrest of a Chinese Huawei executive on an American extradition warrant. In December 2018, China imprisoned two Canadian men, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, and charged them with undermining the country’s national security.
>Canada’s opposition Conservative leader said the Chinese ambassador should apologize or be expelled from Canada.
<“The Chinese ambassador has decided to engage in belligerent rhetoric unbecoming of his office,” Conservative leader Erin O’Toole said in a written statement. “To be clear, this was a threat to the 300,000 Canadians in Hong Kong. And a barely veiled one at that. It was of the kind of tone and tenor one would expect from someone seeking protection money — not someone who is the official emissary of a member of the United Nations Security
>Conservative leader Erin O’Toole
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