School reading activities threat addressed

The struggle to eliminate threats to national security now extends to school activities…

According to updated guidelines published for the new school year, schools should review the details of activities held by external organisations or individuals, including the nature, background, and mode of the activities, as well as the identities and background of the organisers or guests.

…“There should also [not be any] … sensitive or controversial issues involved,” the bureau said, without specifying what contents would be considered as such.

The 313-page document, which mentions national security about 50 times, also [now] requires that all reading activities “on campus and organised in the name of the school… do not lead to situations that endanger national security.”

Existing provisions in the updated guidelines include vetting school library materials to ensure their collections do not have elements that endanger national security.

Jimmy Lai has spent 1,600 days in jail and could get life in prison if he is found guilty of endangering national security by lobbying American officials to impose sanctions on Hong Kong. What happens if a British populist politician flies to the US to lobby for sanctions on the UK? He incurs the wrath of Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Parliament. And that’s it. (OK, he also gets shredded by a Congressman for his pro-Putin putridness.)

Hong Kong marks the ‘Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War’…

Dozens of mostly elderly people gathered at the APM shopping mall in Kwun Tong on Wednesday to watch a live broadcast of the parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

And Lau Siu-kai, quasi-official pro-Beijing spokesman, tells us that Beijing’s military parade yesterday shows the nation’s ‘desire for peace’…

…he stressed China has no intention of pursuing hegemony or bullying other nations. Instead, he said the display was a warning to countries, especially the United States, not to underestimate China.

Lau also pointed to the participation of more than 20 world leaders in the commemorations.

He doesn’t list them, but they include Vladimir Putin of Russia, Kim Jong Un of North Korea, and the leaders of Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Belarus, Syria and other fun places.

The Too Simple, Sometimes Naive substack on the parade’s meaning.