Day: June 15, 2022

Advertisement Commemorations for the third anniversary of the 2019 Hong Kong protests and the 33rd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests took place in Taipei in early June, spaced one week apart. A rally was held on June 4 in Liberty Plaza in Taipei to commemorate the Tiananmen Square protests. This was followed a little over a week later on June 12 by a flag-waving activity culminating in a demonstration outside the Bank of China in downtown Taipei. June 12, 2019 marked a protest march outside Hong Kong’s Legislative…

Advertisement My home country of Canada just announced that it would ban Huawei after coming under pressure from other members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing community (Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom) to do so. Canada justified the banning of the telecommunications giant on concerns for national security. Huawei has been associated with a number of scandals, including the notion that it operates as a tool for the Chinese security state to collect signals intelligence on millions (and potentially billions) of users through back channels. Brazil…