Greta Thunberg and Joshua Wong Found Mutual Admiration Society on Twitter
Greta gets in on the color-revolution-boosting hustle
Throwing Molotov cocktails would pollute the environment, Chinese netizens joked about an online interaction between Hong Kong separatist and activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung and Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, which they consider Wong’s PR stunt to attract attention, and encountered criticism from not only Chinese netizens but also global online users.
Wong posted a long Twitter thread on Sunday, connecting the topic of climate change with the Hong Kong issue, claiming that both share some similarities and that the world cheered and applauded for youth standing up and fighting. The Swedish girl responded in a Tweet saying that it is very “important” and “inspirational.”
Very important thread by the brave and inspirational Joshua Wong. https://t.co/koCles7wyR
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 15, 2019
[Climate change & HK – China is reacting similarly to both]
1/ @GretaThunberg was named #TIMEPOY by the @TIME. She's a Swedish Schoolgirl that inspired #FridaysForFuture against climate change. She's regarded as the figure of the power of youth, and inspired many, including me.
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) December 15, 2019
2/ I applaud for her statement “We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.” There is a future where Greta and I will live long enough to see, and we are responsible to shape it into a desirable one.
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) December 15, 2019
3/ When world cheer & appalled for youth standing up against threats of climate change or dictatorship, we actually all play a role in the fights. No man is an island. We 're all living here today, and we will be living here tmr as well. It's not only up to the youngsters.
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) December 15, 2019
4/ Some people are respectable because they indeed did something great and conquered the limitations of humanity— being selfless, leading an Europe-wide climate change campaign, sacrificing their future and even their lived for the sake of fundamental human rights.
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) December 15, 2019
5/ These figures hope to encourage more people to do the same to really address the issues. It is not up to a few people to resolve problems that requires collective effort.
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) December 15, 2019
6/ Climate Change and the fight for democracy in HK share some similarities. Both of them cannot be resolved simply by the handwork of one place, and China has to be held responsible for both issues, and China’s response to them appears to be similar as well.
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) December 15, 2019
7/ Greenhouse gas emissions by China are the largest in the world. It is found by scientific research that global warming cannot be kept below 2 °C unless the emission of greenhouse gas in China falls sharply.
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) December 15, 2019
8/ China emitted over 12 gigatonnes (Gt) CO2eq of greenhouse gases and makes up almost 30% of the world total. And in 2018-2019, the emissions shows an increasing trend, contrary to the promise China made in the Copenhagen Accord and Paris Agreement.
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) December 15, 2019
9/ However, when China were asked publicly about this, its response is simply “China is a developing countries and it is in desperate needs of economic development”. This clearly shows China does not take the pledge it made in the global arena as promises it has to fulfil.
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) December 15, 2019
10/ China made a Joint-Declaration together with Britain before Handover of HK to promised “1Country2System” and universal suffrage for HK in 1984. It is bounded Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which is an international agreement governing treaties between states.
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) December 15, 2019
11/ Now it is clear that China is unwilling to keep its promise, and worse still, China has recently declared the Joint-Declaration to be invalid on its own. The Joint-Declaration was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance, China said.
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) December 15, 2019
12/ The two examples illustrate that China is never trustworthy and do not take any rules into consideration. It will simply do anything it wants, no matter what are the norms and regulations that it should follow. It takes more than just the youth to address the problem.
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) December 15, 2019
13/ Greta & participants of the strike alone can never hold China responsible for breaking its promise. HK’s youth along can never hold China responsible for violating international treaties. The world has to stand in solidarity to be able to achieve results.
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) December 15, 2019
14/ @GretaThunberg, let's forces China to comply to the norms that all players in the world ought to, for environmental justice and freedom that we all cherish.https://t.co/w3NbsEDEHe
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) December 15, 2019
It’s widely believed that Hong Kong anti-government protesters were desperate to grab the attention of the world by using Thunberg, who is Time magazine’s Person of the Year 2019, to create online buzz.
Before the interaction, posters circulated in their social network groups showing a cartoon of Thunberg surrounded by the “LIHKG pigs” and black-clad protester figures. The post’s caption reads, “We all try our best to defend our future” and “we are in this together.”
Some Twitter users left comments, urging Thunberg not to comment on politics if she doesn’t understand what is going on in Hong Kong.
A Twitter user said that Wong has never condemned the violent riots during months of Hong Kong protests, and that there is nothing brave and inspirational about him.
Throwing Molotov cocktails would pollute the environment, which is a common tactic rioters use to attack Hong Kong police officers, some netizens said on Chinese Twitter-like Weibo.
“I wouldn’t give this much attention. It’s more like Joshua [Wong] trying to catch more attention to his dying reputation,” Tsuen Wan District Councilor Nixie Lam told the Global Times on Monday.
This is not the first time Hong Kong protesters have tried to find influential global figures to back their so-called pro-democracy movement: They used to write to Emma Watson, a goodwill ambassador for women’s rights in the US, to attract global attention and support their color revolution, Angus Ng Hok Ming, executive president of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Association, told the Global Times on Monday.
“It’s a way to rapidly increase the numbers of followers and supporters. And it’s very dangerous for those who worship famous people without really understanding the cause and result of the matter,” he said.
Thunberg’s comment on Hong Kong was not the only controversial remark she had made. The 16-year-old activist also misled the public in a tweet and picture about a so-called overcrowded German train, which showed she was seated on the floor. She said that she had to travel in a less comfortable condition, leading to a spat with German railway service Deutsche Bahn. The latter clarified that she had a first-class seat and train staff members treated her well. Some online users considered her post a PR stunt.
Source: Global Times
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I hope that greta stays home rold up jer sleeves and does some real work like clean up a beach help homeless rescue animals maybe she can go to war torn areas and help orphans who suffer she is useless and comes from privelifgrd it is silly yo put do.much much attention on her and others when zo.msny people of all ages have been concerned and actually taken action in their own communities to solve these issues
two useful idiots admiring each other ,How beautiful LOL
“Throwing Molotov cocktails would pollute the environment, which is a common tactic rioters use to attack Hong Kong police officers”
Indeed, and not only had they thrown many, but police discovered a cache of a few thousand at the university hideout.
“Thunberg’s comment on Hong Kong was not the only controversial remark she had made. The 16-year-old activist also misled the public in a tweet and picture about a so-called overcrowded German train, which showed she was seated on the floor.”
Yes, and then there’s the wealthy person’s yacht on which she hitched home from Europe recently.
Hydrocarbon-based hull and twin (hidden) diesel engines.
Shortly after her “complaint” about the train event, she received a message from the German Bahn (Railways) not to forget to use her special First Class seat they specially received for Greta ThunDing.
Wow if they chose to procreate, they would make the super-autocratic-dictator race!!
Chaos and wars caused misery and death to human life. Those have gone through the wars and human suffering will become wiser and appreciate peaceful life. Many youngsters like to prophet idea which they think is right but cause suffering for many. Is it worth risking our life by not living peacefully in this world.