Following the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law, the Hong Kong police have been blocking websites since January. According to the Hong Kong Wen Wei Po on the 25th, the website of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan was also blocked for the reason of assisting Hong Kong protesters. The Presbyterian Church of Jinan’s senior pastor, Huang Chun-sheng, said in an interview with the station that the fact that even Hong Kong has to go through the wall only proves that Hong Kong has been “mainlandized”.
Taiwan Presbyterian Church Jinan Church has been playing the role of “ant” transport (Hong Kong people to Taiwan to collect protective equipment and gear to bring back to Hong Kong) relay point since the 2019 Hong Kong anti-sending movement, in addition to transporting supplies, Taiwan Presbyterian Church has also been named by Wen Wei Po, in the anti-sending movement has expressed support for the protesters, and earlier by the In the case of Jesse, the webmaster arrested by the Hong Kong police’s National Security Division, the police suspected that “Taiwan Presbyterian Church” was also involved in the investigation.
In response to the blocking of the website, Huang Chunsheng pointed out in an interview with the station on the 26th that the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan had been blocked for a week, so it was just a firewall blocking. The Presbyterian Church is more worried about hackers hacking into the database. At present, they are divided into external websites and internal network use, so hackers can not invade the internal.
Huang Chunsheng: “can open the external network he closed also useless, I think it is very boring, for them to speak only ‘big internal propaganda’, but also let us see an indicator is that Hong Kong has ‘mainlandization’. They (China) domestic you have to go over the wall to get out, Hong Kong messed up also in the next step. Because if Hong Kong is not as an international financial center, in fact, he does not need to manage his network problems.”
Thousands of moms and dads, Taiwan’s school aid in June called a halt to Taiwan’s Jinan Church will take over
Huang Chunsheng lamented that Hong Kong friends must now use VPN to climb over the wall, they also dare not use Facebook messenger and switch to signal to contact with Taiwan, but also do not use E-mail because the IP will be locked very dangerous. If you need to apply for “special entry into Taiwan”, you need to transfer personal data to the church to authenticate, all the information to and from the encrypted software to pass.
According to the Wen Wei Po article, Jesse launched the so-called “1,000 Moms and Dads, Taiwan for Education” fundraising program on the Internet to raise funds to support protesters who fled to Taiwan through crowdfunding. Wen Wei Po quoted alleged sources as saying that the crowdfunding campaign made the source of funds obscure, but the flow of funds was alarmingly fast. In just a few months through the crowdfunding of more than 10 million yuan of funds, of which 4 million yuan was transferred to the account of the “Taiwan Christian Presbyterian Church” advocating “Taiwan independence.
According to the article, according to the implementation rules of Article 43 of the Hong Kong National Security Law, if the Commissioner of Police has reasonable grounds to suspect that a person has published an electronic message on an electronic platform, and the message is likely to constitute an offence against national security, or is likely to lead to the commission of an offence against national security, the Secretary for Security may request the service provider to remove it with the approval of the Secretary for Security.
Jace, formerly known as Wan Yiu-sing, was arrested by the Hong Kong Department of State Security in November last year and February this year on charges of money laundering and financing secession, and remains in remand.
Huang Chunsheng explained that Jace provided great support to the protesters in Taiwan, and the previous fundraising money had already entered Taiwan, and the amount was more than 4 million, mainly used for the protesters’ school tuition and living expenses. With Jace’s arrest, no new fundraising came in, and the funding was set to end in June of this year. Fortunately, there are several civic associations in Taiwan that will take up the slack.
Huang Chunsheng: “I just met with Pastor Lin Wei-lian of the Presbyterian Church General Assembly yesterday, and I told him that we have launched it and he knows about it. We have contacted other associations in Hong Kong, we will all get together, mainly to help the students who have received money to Taiwan, always can not let him drop out of school after a year, find ways to let them continue to study; some students we grind some work to them.”
Causeway Bay bookstore burned money Lin Rongji said that at most to support 2 years
The plight of not only Hong Kong’s protesters in Taiwan, Causeway Bay bookstore owner Lin Rongji before the anti-sending to China movement, April 25, 2019 has been first exiled to Taiwan, and in the community’s enthusiastic response to crowdfunding, raising nearly Taiwan dollars 6 million, so that the bookstore in Taiwan reborn. However, the bookstore lost at least 20,000 yuan every month for the first year of operation, and Lin Rongji admitted in an interview that it would last at most another 2 years.
Lin Rongji: “I have the funds to pay the rent for two years should not be a problem. (What about after two years?) Two years later the world has changed, you still wait two years later. How do you know how it will be in two years? (Now people can no longer plan for two years from now? Why are you so pessimistic?) There are many things you can do now, do what you can do now first, what pessimism? That’s optimism!”
Despite the fact that he has been in exile in Taiwan for more than 2 years, however, Lin Rongji shared a letter from Hong Kong people in Canada on Facebook, saying that many Hong Kong people still do not understand that the most important thing to flee overseas is to obtain an identity, and the quickest way is to apply for refugee status in Canada. It also mentioned that the problem in Taiwan is that it is difficult to get residency if you don’t have money to engage in investment immigration. Those who stay in Taiwan are arranged to study and change their tourist visas to student visas. Studying plus working takes at least 8 to 9 years before you can apply for residency. The time and money investment are quite high.
Lin Rongji: “They know very well in Canada, for example, they have evidence to prove that they are being persecuted or suppressed by the Hong Kong government, and they are more at ease when they go there. Compared to the British government, the life in that place is probably better than staying in Taiwan. So in the future, some young people who can not leave Hong Kong, will choose Canada, the United Kingdom than stay in Taiwan more.”
Hong Kong people to settle in Taiwan threshold to be raised in the future at least 2 years of residence before settlement
According to Taiwan’s Liberty Times, citing Taiwan’s “informed officials” reported that in view of the fear of Hong Kong becoming a base for the Chinese Communist Party’s unification and infiltration of Taiwan, in order to strengthen the democratic defense mechanism, Taiwan’s government ministry will target Hong Kong and Macao residents to come to Taiwan to stay and settle in the system, that is, in the existing “residence”, “settlement” to add another layer. “In the future, there will be no more “residence for one year to qualify for settlement”, but at least two years of residence.
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