On August 16, Zhang Kunyang, a "Hong Kong rioter" who left Hong Kong in exile in August last year, claimed on his social media account that he had begun applying for political asylum with the US government.
He said on social media accounts that he had not disclosed his location since leaving Hong Kong, but had been communicating and working with officials and "friends" in the United States, Britain, Australia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Now, given that a Hong Kong court issued an arrest warrant against him in October last year and that he himself is suspected of potential violations of Hong Kong's national security law, he has begun applying to the U.S. government for political asylum.
Zhang Also said he was admitted to the Master's Program and a scholarship from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Advanced International Studies, and boasted of "influencing current and future diplomats with my own experience, continuing to put Hong Kong issues at the heart of U.S. Policy Toward China" and "giving back to Hong Kong."
This "School of Advanced International Studies" is the same college of Johns Hopkins University that has made a big splash during the epidemic with the map of the epidemic in the United States. Founded in 1943, its graduates mostly flow to the U.S. Congress and government agencies as diplomats and officials. In 1986, the school cooperated with Nanjing University to establish the Center for Chinese and American Culture Research.
A MAP OF THE CORONAVIRUS AND DETAILED DATA ON THE DOMESTIC OUTBREAK IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE MADE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY FAMOUS
Zhang Kunyang was the vice president of the Student Union of Hong Kong Baptist University and a former spokesman for the "Hong Kong Independence" organization "Non-Governmental Diplomacy Network", before the Hong Kong National Security Law came into effect, Zhang Kunyang announced his resignation as the spokesperson of the "Civil Affairs Organization" and dissolved the organization.
During the "storm over the amendment of the law" in Hong Kong, the British organization "Hong Kong Supervision" set up a "Delegation of International Affairs of Hong Kong's Colleges and Universities" that claimed to "represent the academic circles" and matched them. As the spokesman of the organization, Zhang Kunyang co-organized a number of events with the "speculation team" and visited the United Kingdom and the United States, begging foreign parliaments to pass the sanctions bill on Hong Kong.
After learning of the news last December, Zhang Kunyang, who was on the list of about 30 overseas rioters wanted by the Hong Kong police on suspicion of violating Hong Kong's national security law, posted a message on social media declaring that he had "severed contact" with his family.
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