{"id":230696,"date":"2021-03-16T15:45:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T19:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=230696"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T19:45:34","slug":"pro-hong-kong-messages-destroyed-vandalized-at-cornell-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-hong-kong-messages-destroyed-vandalized-at-cornell-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Hong Kong Messages Destroyed, Vandalized At Cornell University"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fpro-hong-kong-messages-destroyed-vandalized-at-cornell-university%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=230696&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1355.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Since 2019, Cornell University student and Hong Kong native Kinen Kao has been posting pro-Hong Kong messages around campus, and recently said that every time he posts a message supporting democracy, it is torn down or vandalized.<\/p>\n<p>Kao, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/at-cornell-pro-hong-kong-fight-for-freedom-signage-repeatedly-vandalized-destroyed\/\">interview<\/a> with The College Fix, said he would not stop putting up the signs even though they keep getting destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing will stop me from continuing to fight for freedom for Hong Kong, until either the day Hong Kong liberates, or the day I die,\u201d Kao told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The Fix reported that Kao hasn\u2019t been able to return to Hong Kong \u201csince China\u2019s hostile takeover of his homeland in 2019.\u201d Kao is also the co-president of the Society for the Promotion of East Asian Liberty (SPEAL), and posts posters, fluorescent sticky notes, and other signs around campus that say, \u201cFree Hong Kong\u201d or \u201cStand with Hong Kong, Fight for Freedom.\u201d He\u2019s done this at least 80 times, he told the Fix, and every time the signs are damaged.<\/p>\n<p>More from the Fix:<\/p>\n<p>Fearing for his safety, Kao said he livestreams himself on Instagram each time he engages in his activism.<\/p>\n<p>Kao and Samuel Kim, co-president of SPEAL, told&nbsp;<em>The College Fix<\/em>&nbsp;that they are surprised pro-Hong Kong posters have been met with such resistance in America and on campus, and believe Chinese Communist Party loyalists may be among Cornell\u2019s community, but there is no proof and no formal investigation has been launched.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last 18 months, the posters and sticky notes have been ripped down, painted over, and even burned, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Kao and Kim attempted to get the Cornell student government to pass a resolution condemning those who kept destroying the signs and \u201cacts of silencing freedom of speech.\u201d The resolution never moved past the committee stage, which the students said effectively meant the student government rejected it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo see that the Free Hong Kong signs have been torn down, or, most recently, burned, is very disheartening,\u201d Kim told the Fix. \u201cAt the same time, it gives me the strength and motivation to become more active in raising awareness in the Cornell community about the pro-democracy movement in East Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kim, however, couldn\u2019t tell the outlet for sure who was removing the signs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is the case that Communist Party-affiliated individuals did tear down these signs, it would fit a pattern of an increasing use of intimidation against pro-democracy activists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire\u2019s Charlotte Pence Bond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/china-moves-to-crack-down-on-hong-kong-democracy\">reported<\/a> last week, China \u201cmoved to limit Hong Kong\u2019s democratic process in an almost unanimous vote.\u201d The vote was mean to \u201capprove a policy that would broaden the power of an existing election committee in order to ensure that \u2018patriots\u2019 are elected to govern Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critics, however, insisted the vote was meant to crush dissent in Hong Kong, particularly to avoid a repeat of the 2019 protests in which citizens demanded their freedom.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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