China seizes 7,600 rolls of toilet paper featuring image
of Hong Kong leader
by UPI7 Feb 2015
HONG KONG, Feb. 7 (UPI) — Authorities in China seized
7,600 rolls of toilet paper and 20,000 tissues packets featuring an image of Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying from a
factory on Friday.
Hong Kong’s Democratic Party was planning to sell the
products at the Lunar New Year fair, after already having sold 4,000 rolls last
year. The toilet paper and tissues feature the leader’s face, some with the
word “lying” on his face and others showing him with fangs.
The controversy comes after Hong Kong experienced major
protests over a plan to allow the public to vote for the city’s chief executive
only after a committee screens out candidates not backed by Beijing. Students
and Occupy Central protesters had taken over many significant parts of Hong
Kong for weeks in what came to be called the “Umbrella Revolution.”
“Apparently Beijing has escalated its attack on the
Democratic Party after the Occupy movement in all ways,” Kelvin Lai King-wai,
head of the Democratic Party’s creative media division, told South China
Morning Post. “They hope to mute our voice with such suppression and eventually
allow only pro-government voices in the city. But I am sure these attempts will
not succeed as we will only be more vocal on the democracy cause in future.”
The party had spent HK$70,000 ($9,028) to obtain two booths
for the New Year fair and HK$20,000 ($2,579) for a deposit on the tissues and
toilet paper.
Hong Kong
Christopher
Patten was the British governor for Hong
Kong, a co-chair for the International
Crisis Group, and a member of the House
of Lords.
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Society, and was a supporter for the Center
for American Progress.
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to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and the Center for
American Progress.
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is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), a member of the House of Lords, and the president of
the China-Britain Business Council.
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Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
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was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
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Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
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N. Minow is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
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LLP is the lobby firm for the Hong
Kong Trade Development Council.
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Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.
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Jr. is a senior counsel for Akin,
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an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
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Jr. is a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was the China U.S.
ambassador for the Barack Obama
administration.
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Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
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founder & chairman for the Podesta
Group.
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Development Council.
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