{"id":1072445,"date":"2021-12-01T12:43:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T17:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1072445"},"modified":"2021-12-01T12:43:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T17:43:37","slug":"greta-thunberg-to-hong-kong-political-prisoner-joshua-wong-you-are-never-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/greta-thunberg-to-hong-kong-political-prisoner-joshua-wong-you-are-never-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Greta Thunberg to Hong Kong Political Prisoner Joshua Wong: &#039;You Are Never Alone&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgreta-thunberg-to-hong-kong-political-prisoner-joshua-wong-you-are-never-alone%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1072445&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg sent a letter revealed on Tuesday to anti-communist Hong Kong protest leader Joshua Wong, a political prisoner under the Chinese regime, in which she expressed \u201clove, support, and strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pro-democracy activist Lee Dae-seon of South Korea shared the letter with Vice, which published it on Tuesday. In addition to wishing Wong a \u201cMerry Christmas,\u201d Thunberg expressed support for his cause, called him a \u201cbig hero,\u201d and asserted, \u201cyou are never alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The letter will likely outrage the Chinese government, which considers Wong a dangerous secessionist for organizing peaceful resistance to China\u2019s illegal destruction of the Hong Kong democratic system. That destruction, increasingly brazen in light of the wave of anti-China protests in 2019 attracting millions of people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/05\/28\/china-passes-national-security-law-suffocating-hong-kong\/\">concluded<\/a> with the passage of a \u201cnational security\u201d law by the National People\u2019s Congress (NPC) in Beijing that establishes harsh prison sentences for vague \u201ccrimes\u201d like \u201csubversion of state power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under Hong Kong\u2019s \u201cOne Country, Two Systems\u201d policy, NPC laws should not apply in Hong Kong, but police have enforced the \u201cnational security\u201d law, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Wong is facing life in prison for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-05-06\/famed-hong-kong-activist-s-prison-sentence-keeps-getting-longer\">subversion<\/a>\u201d and has already been sentenced to over two years in prison for, among other things, attending a vigil for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.471337579618\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong, including Joshua Wong, are calling on moviegoers to boycott Disney&#8217;s live-action&nbsp;&#8216;Mulan&#8217; over actress Liu Yifei&#8217;s past comment in which she supported Communist China&#8217;s crackdown on demonstrators.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1bTbjALsye\">https:\/\/t.co\/1bTbjALsye<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1302355577398591489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMerry Christmas and happy holidays! You are a big hero, we are with you always,\u201d Thunberg wrote to Wong in the letter revealed this week. \u201cStay strong and never give up. You are never alone. I really hope that we will be able to meet one day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep fighting and take care of yourself. Sending love, support, and strength from Sweden,\u201d the letter concluded, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/k7wwga\/greta-thunberg-joshua-wong-hong-kong\">Vice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, the activist that hopes to relay the letter to Wong, told Vice that he asked Thunberg to write to Wong as a way to raise awareness about his ongoing detention. Lee is an advocate for the Hong Kong cause and has helped the movement, the outlet reported, by translating protest leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought Thunberg\u2019s letter could mean the most for Wong. That\u2019s why I wanted to send him her letter,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lee participated in a \u201cFridays for Future\u201d protest with Thunberg in Sweden on Friday. Thunberg published a photo alongside Lee on her Twitter account in which the two, and two other activists, hold up protest signs urging greater efforts to stop climate change.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.7402597402597\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">School strike week 171. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FridaysForFuture?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FridaysForFuture<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ClimateStrike?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ClimateStrike<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UprootTheSystem?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UprootTheSystem<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G50X9s4yTd\">pic.twitter.com\/G50X9s4yTd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GretaThunberg\/status\/1464142351333572608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFridays for Future\u201d is the weekly school boycott campaign Thunberg began as a teen. It has spread globally, including in China, where the regime has arrested participants. Ou Hongyi, the first known Fridays for Future participant in China, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/10\/01\/greta-thunberg-embraces-chinese-dissidents-arrested-environmentalism\/\">arrested<\/a> in October 2020 for skipping school to protest the climate crisis \u2013 for which China currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2021\/11\/09\/china-coal-output-climate-conference\/\">bears<\/a> a disproportionate amount of blame. At the time, Thunberg published a statement sending Ou \u201csolidarity and gratitude\u201d for speaking up against China\u2019s environmental crimes.<\/p>\n<p>During the early years of her activism, Thunberg received criticism for disproportionately targeting Western nations in her calls to enact policies to protect the environment. She has increasingly identified China, the world\u2019s worst polluter, as a major culprit in what she has branded an existential crisis for humanity. She has separately angered the Communist Party through her friendship with Wong. Like Thunberg, Wong began his career in activism as a teen \u2013 Wong first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2014\/10\/03\/17-year-old-protest-veteran-joshua-wong-becomes-face-of-hong-kong-protests\/\">began<\/a> protesting China as a 14-year-old \u2013 but has focused primarily on calling for preserving the free, democratic system Hong Kong enjoyed as a British colony and during its semi-autonomous state prior to the passage of the \u201cnational security\u201d law.<\/p>\n<p>Thunberg first publically supported Wong through a blurb written for his 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/639515\/unfree-speech-by-joshua-wong-with-jason-y-ng\/\">book<\/a>&nbsp;<em>Unfree Speech<\/em> in which she wrote, \u201cJoshua Wong is a brave and inspiring young leader. Together we are one loud voice that cannot be silenced.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In October of that year, Thunberg joined an online campaign Wong participated in to demand freedom for Hong Kong residents who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/10\/19\/greta-thunberg-defies-china-demands-release-imprisoned-hong-kong-refugees\/\">attempted<\/a> to escape the city and found themselves imprisoned for both their attempt to escape and for their political dissent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13899402\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1171572148.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13899402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1171572148.jpg\" alt=\"Pro democracy activist and South Horizons Community Organiser Joshua Wong stands in front of the Central Government Complex before the announcement of his run for 2019 District Council elections in Hong Kong on September 28, 2019 (Photo by Philip FONG \/ AFP) (Photo credit should read PHILIP FONG\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pro democracy activist and South Horizons Community Organiser Joshua Wong stands in front of the Central Government Complex before the announcement of his run for 2019 District Council elections in Hong Kong on September 28, 2019 (PHILIP FONG\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thunberg has also increased her criticism of China\u2019s abysmal environmental record. In May of this year, Thunberg asserted that China\u2019s dubious classification as a \u201cdeveloping nation,\u201d despite being the world\u2019s second-largest economy, was \u201cno excuse for ruining future and present living conditions.\u201d Chinese officials regularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202111\/1237976.shtml\">defend<\/a> their prodigious pollution by claiming that the country is still \u201cdeveloping\u201d and only \u201cdeveloped\u201d countries should act to limit greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, during an interview with the BBC, Thunberg condemned China\u2019s rapid expansion of fossil fuel resources as \u201cout of touch with reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it\u2019s always someone that\u2019s bigger than you that you can blame on. And that\u2019s why it\u2019s more important that we need to work together internationally and globally to make sure that everyone does this transition,\u201d Thunberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2021\/11\/02\/china-greta-thunberg-uneducated-beijing\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cNot the least, pushing China, who are still building coal \u2013 coal power plants, which today is quite out of touch with reality if you ask me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chinese government-controlled media have assailed Thunberg as, among other things, an uneducated \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/10\/20\/state-media-chinese-netizens-call-greta-thunberg-clown-hong-kong-support\/\">clown<\/a>\u201d and \u201cpuppet\u201d of the West. The \u201cclown\u201d remark appeared in the state newspaper&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> in response to Thunberg\u2019s support of Wong last year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15454867\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/12-2020-hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-jail-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15454867\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/12-2020-hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-jail-getty.jpg\" alt=\"HONG KONG, CHINA - DECEMBER 18: Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong prepares to board a Correctional Service Department van at Lai Chi Kok ahead of a court hearing at Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre on December 18, 2020 in Hong Kong, China. Wong was indicted for taking part in an unauthorized assembly over an anti-mask law protest. (Photo by Anthony Kwan\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong prepares to board a Correctional Service Department van at Lai Chi Kok ahead of a court hearing at Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre on December 18, 2020 in Hong Kong, China. Wong was indicted for taking part in an unauthorized assembly over an anti-mask law protest. (Anthony Kwan\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Notoriously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/12\/03\/chinese-state-owned-media-editor-calls-sen-marsha-blackburn-btch\/\">sexist<\/a>&nbsp;<em>China Daily<\/em> editor Chen Weihua <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chenweihua\/status\/1317476775358758913\">attacked<\/a> Thunberg at the time as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chenweihua\/status\/1317609266841325580?lang=en\">pathetic<\/a>\u201d and claimed she had \u201czero knowledge\u201d of the situation in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2021\/11\/02\/china-greta-thunberg-uneducated-beijing\/\">responded<\/a> to Thunberg\u2019s BBC interview by calling her uneducated for promoting \u201cFridays for Future,\u201d which calls on students to skip school that day in protest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThunberg, who skipped school for so-called climate protests at 15, has been portrayed as a devoted environmentalist in the West. She is a pretty good tool to divert public attention from the fact that the West is not doing enough to curb emissions,\u201d the&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em>&nbsp;propagandists wrote. \u201cShe was nicknamed by Chinese netizens\u2019 selective environmental activist\u2019 and a \u2018puppet\u2019 of Western politicians after she blamed China for the global climate crisis while turning a blind eye to Japan\u2019s decision to dump nuclear wastewater in May.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg sent a letter revealed on Tuesday to anti-communist Hong Kong protest leader Joshua Wong, a political prisoner under the Chinese regime, in which she expressed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}