泰晤士報人物專訪【Joshua Wong interview: Xi won’t win this battle, says Hong Kong activist】
Beijing believes punitive prison sentences will put an end to pro-democracy protests. It couldn’t be more wrong, the 23-year-old says.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/joshua-wong-interview-xi-wont-win-this-battle-says-hong-kong-activist-p52wlmd0t
For Joshua Wong, activism began early and in his Hong Kong school canteen. The 13-year-old was so appalled by the bland, oily meals served for lunch at the United Christian College that he organised a petition to lobby for better fare. His precocious behaviour earned him and his parents a summons to the headmaster’s office. His mother played peacemaker, but the episode delivered a valuable message to the teenage rebel.
“It was an important lesson in political activism,” Wong concluded. “You can try as hard as you want, but until you force them to pay attention, those in power won’t listen to you.”
It was also the first stage in a remarkable journey that has transformed the bespectacled, geeky child into the globally recognised face of Hong Kong’s struggle for democracy. Wong is the most prominent international advocate for the protests that have convulsed the former British colony since last summer.
At 23, few people would have the material for a memoir. But that is certainly not a problem for Wong, whose book, #UnfreeSpeech, will be published in Britain this week.
We meet in a cafe in the Admiralty district, amid the skyscrapers of Hong Kong’s waterfront, close to the site of the most famous scenes in his decade of protest. Wong explains that he remains optimistic about his home city’s prospects in its showdown with the might of communist China under President Xi Jinping.
“It’s not enough just to be dissidents or youth activists. We really need to enter politics and make some change inside the institution,” says Wong, hinting at his own ambitions to pursue elected office.
He has been jailed twice for his activism. He could face a third stint as a result of a case now going through the courts, a possibility he treats with equanimity. “Others have been given much longer sentences,” he says. Indeed, 7,000 people have been arrested since the protests broke out some seven months ago; 1,000 of them have been charged, with many facing a sentence of as much as 10 years.
There is a widespread belief that Beijing hopes such sentences will dampen support for future protests. Wong brushes off that argument. “It’s gone too far. Who would imagine that Generation Z and the millennials would be confronting rubber bullets and teargas, and be fully engaged in politics, instead of Instagram or Snapchat? The Hong Kong government may claim the worst is over, but Hong Kong will never be peaceful as long as police violence persists.”
In Unfree Speech, Wong argues that China is not only Hong Kong’s problem (the book’s subtitle is: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now). “It is an urgent message that people need to defend their rights, against China and other authoritarians, wherever they live,” he says.
At the heart of the book are Wong’s prison writings from a summer spent behind bars in 2017. Each evening in his cell, “I sat on my hard bed and put pen to paper under dim light” to tell his story.
Wong was born in October 1996, nine months before Britain ceded control of Hong Kong to Beijing. That makes him a fire rat, the same sign of the Chinese zodiac that was celebrated on the first day of the lunar new year yesterday. Fire rats are held to be adventurous, rebellious and garrulous. Wong is a Christian and does not believe in astrology, but those personality traits seem close to the mark.
His parents are Christians — his father quit his job in IT to become a pastor, while his mother works at a community centre that provides counselling — and named their son after the prophet who led the Israelites to the promised land.
Like many young people in Hong Kong, whose housing market has been ranked as the world’s most unaffordable, he still lives at home, in South Horizons, a commuter community on the south side of the main island.
Wong was a dyslexic but talkative child, telling jokes in church groups and bombarding his elders with questions about their faith. “By speaking confidently, I was able to make up for my weaknesses,” he writes. “The microphone loved me and I loved it even more.”
In 2011, he and a group of friends, some of whom are his fellow activists today, launched Scholarism, a student activist group, to oppose the introduction of “moral and national education” to their school curriculum — code for communist brainwashing, critics believed. “I lived the life of Peter Parker,” he says. “Like Spider-Man’s alter-ego, I went to class during the day and rushed out to fight evil after school.”
The next year, the authorities issued a teaching manual that hailed the Chinese Communist Party as an “advanced and selfless regime”. For Wong, “it confirmed all our suspicions and fears about communist propaganda”.
In August 2012, members of Scholarism launched an occupation protest outside the Hong Kong government’s headquarters. Wong told a crowd of 120,000 students and parents: “Tonight we have one message and one message only: withdraw the brainwashing curriculum. We’ve had enough of this government. Hong Kongers will prevail.”
Remarkably, the kids won. Leung Chun-ying, the territory’s chief executive at the time, backed down. Buoyed by their success, the youngsters of Scholarism joined forces with other civil rights groups to protest about the lack of progress towards electing the next chief executive by universal suffrage — laid out as a goal in the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s constitution. Their protests culminated in the “umbrella movement” occupation of central Hong Kong for 79 days in 2014.
Two years later, Wong and other leaders set up a political group, Demosisto. He has always been at pains to emphasise he is not calling for independence — a complete red line for Beijing. Demosisto has even dropped the words “self-determination” from its stated goals — perhaps to ease prospects for its candidates in elections to Legco, the territory’s legislative council, in September.
Wong won’t say whether he will stand himself, but he is emphatically political, making a plea for change from within — not simply for anger on the streets — and for stepping up international pressure: “I am one of the facilitators to let the voices of Hong Kong people be heard in the international community, especially since 2016.”
There are tensions between moderates and radicals. Some of the hardliners on the streets last year considered Wong already to be part of the Establishment, a backer of the failed protests of the past.
So why bother? What’s the point of a city of seven million taking on one of the world’s nastiest authoritarian states, with a population of about 1.4 billion? And in any case, won’t it all be over in 2047, the end of the “one country, two systems” deal agreed between China and Britain, which was supposed to guarantee a high degree of autonomy for another 50 years? Does he fear tanks and a repetition of the Tiananmen Square killings?
Wong acknowledges there are gloomy scenarios but remains a robust optimist. “Freedom and democracy can prevail in the same way that they did in eastern Europe, even though before the Berlin Wall fell, few people believed it would happen.”
He is tired of the predictions of think-tank pundits, journalists and the like. Three decades ago, with the implosion of communism in the Soviet bloc, many were confidently saying that the demise of the people’s republic was only a matter of time. Jump forward 20 years, amid the enthusiasm after the Beijing Olympics, and they were predicting market reforms and a growing middle class would presage liberalisation.
Neither scenario has unfolded, Wong notes. “They are pretending to hold the crystal ball to predict the future, but look at their record and it is clear no one knows what will happen by 2047. Will the Communist Party even still exist?”
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1119445/unfree-speech
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เทคนิคดีแค่ไหนไม่สำคัญ
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"เทคนิคฝึก speaking ที่ควรทำทุกวัน"
โพสนี้แอดจะมาอธิบายเข้าใจว่า
ใน 1 วันเราต้องทำอะไรบ้าง
เพื่อพัฒนาสกิลการพูดภาษาอังกฤษของตัวเอง
ใครที่อยากพูดภาษาอังกฤษคล่อง ๆ
และฟังให้อกกง่าย ๆ
มาอ่านและเอาไปฝึกเลยย
ถ้าทำตามทุกวัน จะเห็นผลภายใน 3 - 4 อาทิตย์แน่นอน
ถ้าฝึกทุกวันจริง ๆ ทั้ง speaking, listening และ vocabulary ของเรา
จะพัฒนาขึ้นมาก
โดยเราจะฝึกจากรายการ 'Words in the news' ของ BBC
(Link: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/witn)
หรือจะไปที่ยูทูปก็ได้ครับ มีคนทำ Playlist ไว้อยู่
(Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch…)
โดยรายการ Words in the news นี้ เขาจะมีข่าวสั้น ๆ มาให้เรา
และจะมีผู้ประกาศข่าวมาอ่านให้เราฟัง
โดยจะมีคำศัพท์ให้เรา 5 - 6 คำ
ในตอนแรกเขาจะอ่านโดยไม่มีsub
มีเพียงวีดีโอข่าวให้เรา
แต่รอบสองจะมีทั้งวีดีโอและซับให้
ความยาวประมาณ 3 นาที
อาจต้องฟังหลายรอบหน่อย
แนะนำให้ฟังซ้ำ ๆ ครับเพื่อฝึก listening skill
ตอนแรกฟังแบบไม่มีซับก่อนนะ ถ้าฟังไม่ออกจริง ๆ ค่อยอ่านสคริป
จากนั้นเราก็แปลคำศัพท์
เว็ปสำหรับใช้แปลคำศัพท์
แปลแบบ Eng - Eng ก่อน
Oxford Dict: en.oxforddictionaries.com/
Longman Dict: www.ldoceonline.com/
แล้วค่อยมาแปลแบบ Eng - Thai
ทุกวันที่แปลเสร็จ ให้จัดคำศัพท์ที่เราเรียนในแต่ละวันไว้สำหรับทบทวนก่อนการฝึกของวันต่อไปด้วยครับ
สุดท้าย สิ่งที่สำคัญที่สุดคือ:
บันทึกเสียงตัวเองแะละลองอ่านข่าวตามสคริป
เพื่อจะได้เห็นพัฒนาการการพูดของตัวเอง
พยายามลอกเลียนแบบออกเสียงให้เหมือน
ทั้ง word stress, intonation เอาให้เหมือนเลยครับ
(สำหรับใครที่ยังไม่เข้าใจ 2 เรื่องนี้ไปอ่านเพิ่มเติมได้ที่: https://pantip.com/topic/36503670 )
ไปดูวิธีฝึกแบบละเอียดเลย
ฝากติดตาม Instagram ของเพจด้วย อัพเดตคำศัพท์น่าใช้ทุกวัน IG: British Dad (@the.jgc)
"ไม่ต้องรู้ทุกอย่างในวันนี้ แค่รู้มากกว่าเมื่อวานก็พอ"
Stay knowledge-hungry
JGC.
"Speaking technique that you should do everyday"
This post, admin will explain that I understand.
In 1 days what do we have to do
To develop their own English speaking skills
Anyone who wants to speak fluent English
And easy to listen to the chest
Let's read and practice.
If you follow every day, you will see results within 3 weeks.
If you really practice every day, speaking, listening and our vocabulary.
Going to improve a lot
We will practice from BBC's ' Words in the news '
(Link: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/witn)
Or you can go to Youtube. Someone is making Playlist.
(Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZIEm0djQfc&list=RD7ZIEm0djQfc)
By this word in the news, he will have a short news for us.
And there will be an anchor to read to us.
There will be 5 vocabulary for us.
In the beginning he will read without sub
Just video news for us
But the second round will have video and subtitle.
Approx 3 min length
May have to listen to many times.
I recommend you to listen again to practice listening skill.
At first, I listen without subtitle. If I can't listen to it, then read the script.
Then we translate the vocabulary
Website for translation of vocabulary
Eng translation - Eng first
Oxford Do: in. oxforddictionaries. com /
Longman Do: www.ldoceonline.com/
Then come to translate in Eng - Thai
Every day that I finish translated, let's arrange the vocabulary that we study each day for review before the next day's training.
Finally, the most important thing is:
Record your own voice. Try to read the news on the script.
To see the development of my own speech.
Trying to imitate like
Both word stress, intonation. Let's look like it.
(For those of you who don't understand these 2 stories, read more at: https://pantip.com/topic/36503670)
Check out how to train in detail
Please follow Instagram page. cuddle update vocabulary everyday IG: British Dad (@the.jgc)
"No need to know everything today. Just know more than yesterday"
Stay knowledge-hungry
JGC.Translated
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YB Dato' Sri Dr. Ng Yen Yen greets the people in Melaka in conjunction with the Chap Goh Mei celebration at the Jonker Street. The CNY greeting soon turns into a "political speech" and the people in Melaka really "voice out" their thoughts when battle of "Yes and No!" exploded between the minister and the crowd in Melaka.
"Malaysia's direction is in the hands of the people. We are confident with the people of Melaka as you (the rakyat) know who works for the people."
The MCA vice president also compared the banned celebration of Valentine's Day and lotteries under the PAS rule, calling on the crowd to appreciate the developments brought by Malacca Chief Minister Mohd Ali Rustam She has asked the crowd to agree with her by saying "yes" and that the BN government would organise a bigger Chap Goh Meh celebration if it won the coming general election.
Even when she urges the Chinese lion dance crew to hit the drums, the Chinese-majority crowd only responded with a clear shout of "No! No! No!" Once again the party was humiliated, this time in front crowd comprising of people of all ages, both local and foreign.
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