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Double anniversary of CCP and HKSAR founding sees awards and death

Harbour Times
Jul 1, 2021
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Sorry eh,

Because of a scheduling error, our Leader of the Week isn’t here. Instead we have a very politically heavy Free Tide.

On the upside (maybe), free readers get me today rather than Kyna or Jasmine.

I don’t know if that’s a benefit.

Anyway, please remember, as usual, that Free Tide is a reduced coverage. If you want all the juicy details, consider subscribing (link is sent along with this email)

~ Cyril


Highlights: Centenary of the Chinese Communist Party

Lots of speeches were given by lots of people. Let’s summarize

  • President Xi Jinping in Beijing

Primarily, Xi’s speech was a rallying cry for the Chinese nation focusing on the CCP’s achievements over the past century including building national pride, lifting millions our of poverty and in creating a ‘new socialist China’ with the CCP at the helm, not only for China but for the betterment of mankind.

  • CE Carrie Lam was not in Hong Kong addressing her people, but in Beijing celebrating the party’s founding. In her place, Acting CE John Lee gave the Chief Executive’s speech

Lee’s speech mentioned Hong Kong’s close relationship with China, and how the CCP’s governance of Hong Kong can help future development, making specific mention to the Belt-And-Road Initiative. He also sought to allay fears about the National Security Law and Electoral Overhaul.


COVID news

Twitter avatar for @newsgovhk
Hong Kong SAR Government News @newsgovhk
The Centre for Health Protection says it is investigating four additional #COVID19 cases which are all imported
news.gov.hkHK reports 4 imported virus casesThe Centre for Health Protection says it is investigating four additional COVID-19 cases which are all imported.
2:44 PM ∙ Jul 1, 2021

Coronavirus in Hong Kong

  • New cases: 4 (imported)

  • Total cases: 11,928 cases so far (86 active cases, 211 total deaths, 11,631 total recovered)

Aberdeen lockdown

A cleaner who lives in Aberdeen and works in various hotels has been found preliminarily positive for the new mutant COVID strain. Port Aberdeen, her residence, is currently in lockdown (when y’all receive this at 7am, it should still be in lockdown….till 7:30am. Wow! High Tide is 100% current for once!)


CANADA D’Eh!

  • Another country, another speech summary

Acting Consul General of Canada in HK and Macau, Patricia Elliott’s speech uploaded onto the Consulate’s Facebook page spoke about celebrating the contributions of Canada’s “indigenous and multicultural communities to our land and the world”.

Although not specifically mentioned, Canada has not had the best PR recently with the discovery of over 1,000 unmarked graves in former Indian Residential Schools.

To this end, Elliot also mentioned Canada day as a time to “celebrate our successes, and to reflect sincerely on our history and culture”.

  • Black and Orange

In response to the discoveries, Aura Freedom International urged Canadians to wear Black and Orange – orange being the symbolic colour of the ‘little one who could not find their way back home’.

  • Student Art Contest

In less sombre coverage, Canada Day was celebrated locally with a student art contest with the theme “Canada in Hong Kong/Macao”. There were three primary and three secondary school winners, all the designs are available on free e-Cards available here.

This was included in one of the winner’s pics and I have no idea why. Who even likes Canadian Geese?

Arrests for protests, man dies after attacking police

  • Police banned the annual July 1st March despite organisers pledging to keep social distancing regulations.

  • One protest held successfully: League of Social Democrats, four-man protest.

Raphael Wong of the League said “Celebrate the 100 year anniversary [of the CCP], do not forget the original intentions”.

  • Attacker of Police dies in hospital

After attacking the officer, the man then stabbed himself in the chest. Both were sent to hospital. The attacker was pronounced dead at Rutonjee Hospital at 11:20pm.

It is unclear whether the man attacked for political motives at the moment.


Other News

  • Chief Executive’s Honours List Announced
    The most prominent awards (Grand Bauhinia Medal and Gold Bauhinia Star) were mostly given out to politicians, however various industry and social leaders were also included in this year’s list of 740 - the largest list yet.

    We’ll cover this properly some other time, I swear. There’s no space here.

  • New Justices of the Peace appointed


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