The Hong Kong Protests Are About More Than an Extradition Law
June 11, 2019Huge crowds took to the streets to resist moves by Beijing to curtail human rights. If we are to believe Carrie Lam, the chief executive of the Hong Kong government, the hundreds of thousands of people who marched through the city’s … Continued The post The Hong Kong Protests Are About read more →
China social media: WeChat and the Surveillance State
June 10, 2019By Stephen McDonellBBC News, Beijing China’s WeChat is a site for social interaction, a form of currency, a dating app, a tool for sporting teams and deliverer of news: Twitter, Facebook, Googlemaps, Tinder and Apple Pay all rolled into one. But it is also an ever more powerful weapon of read more →
Hong Kong’s end game: Why the extradition bill is an ‘infinity stone’ that could decimate half of society
June 10, 2019By Jason Y. Ng, Progressive Lawyers Group Read article here You don’t have to be a comic book fanboy to know who Thanos is. The supervillain in the Marvel filmdom is famous for his master plan to collect all six … Continued The post Hong Kong’s end game: Why the read more →
A STRATEGY FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE OF TIBET
June 10, 2019Remarks by NED President Carl Gershman to The Seventh Meeting of the World Parliamentarians Convention on Tibet in Riga, Latvia Published by NED May 9, 2019 Just a month ago a memorial meeting sponsored by 17 organizations was … Continued The post A STRATEGY FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE read more →
Beijing Hinders Free Speech in America
June 10, 2019Source : The New York Times By Wang Dan I spent nearly seven years in a Chinese prison for being a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. I was freed in 1998, and the Chinese government let me leave the country. I chose to go to the United States, read more →
More than 1 million protest in Hong Kong, organizers say, over Chinese extradition law
June 10, 2019CNN, 10 June 2019 Read article here. Hong Kong (CNN)More than 1 million protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong Sunday, organizers said, to oppose a controversial extradition bill that would enable China to extradite fugitives from the city. The mass … Continued The post More than 1 million protest in read more →
The west is complicit in the 30-year cover-up of Tiananmen – Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei
June 6, 2019Source: theguardian.com Beijing’s continued whitewashing cannot expunge our collective memory of the killings of 4 June 1989 The events of 4 June 1989, when the Chinese government deployed the full might of its military to purge Tiananmen Square of students who’d been peacefully protesting there, have become known in China read more →
30 Years After Tiananmen Square: The Endurance of Violent Oppression
June 5, 2019UNPO, Read the original article here. 30 years ago, in the spring of 1989, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Beijing and assembled at Tiananmen Square, demanding democracy, freedom of speech and an end to the … Continued The post 30 Years After Tiananmen Square: The read more →
China Must Pay for Its Brutal Human Rights Record
June 5, 2019By Michael Mazza, Read the original article here. The United States cannot participate in the 2022 Olympics without signaling acquiescence to China’s most flagrant human-rights abuses. Thirty years ago, the People’s Liberation Army marched on Beijing. Troops fired indiscriminately on unarmed … Continued The post China Must Pay for Its Brutal read more →
Canada says it has real concerns over China’s human rights, Beijing protests
June 5, 2019By David Ljunggren, Read the original article here. OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marked the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on Tuesday by expressing “real concerns” about China’s human rights record, prompting a swift protest from … Continued The post Canada says it has real concerns read more →