From security of Taiwan, new magazine gets to out to Hong Kong diaspora
10 March, 2021
A new magazine to get Hong Kong's struggle for democracy is calling the diaspora and the ones still living in the former British colony, offering unvarnished commentary from the safety of Taiwan where it is published.
Taiwan has emerged as a location of refuge for a few Hong Kongers, to Beijing's anger, especially after China's enforcement of a fresh national security law found in Hong Kong last year.
In Chinese the brand new quarterly magazine is named "be normal water", after a tactic protesters used to evade Hong Kong police and encouraged by a maxim of home-grown martial arts legend Bruce Lee that encourages them to be adaptable or formless.
The first issue came out in January.
Named Flow HK in English, the magazine's editor-in-chief is normally exiled activist Sunny Cheung, and its own editorial board includes other well-known campaigners.
Chiang Min-yen, a good Taiwanese activist who gets results from the magazine's little Taipei office and in addition sits on the editorial plank, told Reuters the publication wished to provide a forum for debate and how exactly to continue the attack for freedom and democracy.
Chiang Min-Yen, an editor of Stream HK speaks during an interview with Reuters at their office in Taipei, Taiwan, Mar 4, 2021. (Reuters/Ann Wang)
"People are considering what's following for Hong Kong and what may Hong Kongers do - how can people support Hong Kong and oppose the authoritarianism of the Communist Get together," he added.
The magazine encourages Hong Kong subscribers to achieve the electronic version because of security concerns about police potentially finding a physical copy in people's homes.
Hong Kong authorities maintain that freedom of speech and that of the media are intact, but say nationwide security is a crimson line.
The countrywide security law punishes anything China considers subversion, secessionism, terrorism or collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison.
In his piece for the inaugural edition, Cheung urges persons not to quit, saying the resistance activity is similar to a buried blast of fire geared up to become a river.
"Overseas Hong Kongers must struggle, and will not give up their aspiration to go home. Should you be not free of charge in Hong Kong, in that case what is the utilization of freedom?"
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