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‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head

www.theguardian.com ‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head

After speaking out about the suppression of Hong Kong’s protests, Chloe Cheung was targeted by Beijing, followed on the street and abused online. Yet she remains defiant

Media outlets across east Asia were reporting that Cheung, who had just finished her A-levels, had been declared a threat to national security by officials in Hong Kong. There was an offer of HK$1m (£94,000) to anyone who could assist in her arrest or capture.

Friends said: ‘Sorry, you are a criminal in Hong Kong now so we can’t be associated with you.’ Even friends in Leeds stopped seeing me

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‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head

www.theguardian.com /global-development/2025/aug/11/leeds-teenager-china-chloe-cheung-democracy-protest-hong-kong

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‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head

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It's crazy how, here in Brazil, we kind of have to chose now if we stay besides USA or China... We hate what Trump is doing to us, but at the same time, our partners in BRICS are not a bed of roses either... It seems the bipolarization of the world is coming to its max now, again, after cold war...
- From an American: sorry.
  I know it doesn’t mean much, but there's a significant fraction of Americans who hate what Trump is doing to y'all, including some of my family. Tons of people here hate Trump, and I mean hate his guts, even former Republicans.
  I don’t know China as well, but it seems like there’s a lot more political unity there.
  …But also, let our dumpster fire be a lesson, I guess. It can happen to you. Ban our stuff, please, especially Big Tech.
- Alliances are drawn out of self interest not morality.
  
  Not many of us want to piss off either psycho gov't, NGL. Don't throw out shitty platitudes like that unless you're commiserating.
  
  I was justifying allying with one or the other.
  
  Your made-up platitude is baseless, off-key, and slapped together to sound wise, but it's even shittier than "Eat, Pray, Love", FFS.
  
  You’ll figure out the world isn’t full of rainbows someday.
  
  Oh, sweetie...
- Did it make a difference when China built that big container port in Peru and started connecting it with railways to the Atlantic coast?
  
  Not yet... At least here se don't see any movement or change yet...
- our partners in BRICS
  There are no BRICS partners. The union literally does nothing but yap contrarian lmao
  
  You're maybe right... I'd love to see an alternative currency for international trade though. We're done with US Dollars.
  
  Why? What would you gain with a dollar competitor? I mena no one's stopping you using other currencies right now unless your an oligarch in a gas station country.
  
  Well, US companies have the monopoly on credit cards. US imposes SWIFT all around he world. If I buy something on amazon, or alibaba, it will be converted to USD and then to my currency. All commodities, on what my country depends, are rated in USD, even if few sell it to China or Europe... And all of this for what? What is the actual value US is putting into all of this? Its only getting a share on something it has nothing to do. And it just gives US fu**ed up governors the chance to impose sanctions to whoever they want in order to interfere with foreign affairs.
  
  Thats simply not true. I say that as European living in Asia - none of my euros are converted to dollars, ever.
  
  So, Magnitsky law, and SWIFT blockades are for nothing? Just because it's not explicit on the website, it doesn't mean it's not doing it behind the scenes. That's how economy works... If I buy something from China, my money goes there by SWIFT transactions, which is controlled by US.
  
  Lmao what does that even have to do with BRICS. You're lost somewhere bro
  
  There are people that just come online to argue with others and try to make a point no matter what, no matter how rude they are, and no matter how embarrassed they become... Sorry for u. Meanwhile read this article. It seems that you didn't see news about BRICS, Brazil and US sanctions for a while. https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/07/24/trumps-astonishing-battering-of-brazil
  
  Oh sweety... 🥹
  
  Nah just calling our your bullshit my dude. Carry on then bye
- Um literalmente apoiou a ditadura e está fazendo a mesma coisa de novo, e você tá preocupado com o que talvez supostamente, segundo os estados unidos, a China pode fazer?
  
  Me diga se vc gostaria de viver hoje na China, Rússia, Índia... Talvez no Irã? Ditaduras declaradas, a tempos! Eu concordou que o BR não pode se vender aos EUA (de novo) mas a alternativa também não é lá muito promissora...

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