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What Chinese Citizens Have (and Haven’t) Learned About Hong Kong’s Protests
While the world has focused on Hong Kong over the past week, most of the 1.4 billion people right across the border in China have not. As hundreds of thousands of protesters march in Hong Kong’s streets against unpopular China-backed extradition legislation, … Continued The post What Chinese Citizens Have (and Haven’t) read more →
Inside China’s ‘thought transformation’ camps
The BBC has been given rare access to the vast system of highly secure facilities thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in China’s western region of Xinjiang. Authorities there insist they are just training schools. But the BBC’s visit uncovers important evidence about the nature of the read more →
Sound of Hong Kong’s defiance reverberates in Beijing
Beijing’s public support for Hong Kong leader likely hides private fury, but letting her go would be another humiliation The most obvious casualty of Hong Kong’s extraordinary uprising against chief executive, Carrie Lam, and her campaign to tie the city … Continued The post Sound of Hong Kong’s defiance reverberates read more →
Tibetan human rights group plan Auckland protest against Google’s China expansion plans
A Tibetan human rights group will be protesting outside Google’s Auckland office demanding that the technology giant scrap its plans to launch a censored search engine in China called Project Dragonfly. Friends of Tibet leader Thuten Kesang said it will … Continued The post Tibetan human rights group plan Auckland read more →
China is using hi-tech balloons to spy on India from Tibet
China began to show interest in aerostats in the 1990s, but it was only in 2010-11 that it received three large-sized tethered aerostat systems from a Russian company. New Delhi: China has deployed balloon-borne radars across the Indian frontier in … Continued The post China is using hi-tech balloons to read more →
Nepal schools make Mandarin compulsory after China offers to pay teachers’ salaries
KATHMANDU: A Chinese government’s proposal for covering the salaries of teachers in Nepal who teach Mandarin have prompted many privates schools in the Himalayan nation to make it mandatory for students to learn the language according to a media report. … Continued The post Nepal schools make Mandarin compulsory after read more →
China’s Tiananmen reckoning
Brahma Chellaney, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Read article here The 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of at least 10,000 people is significant for several reasons. For one thing, the deadly assault on student-led demonstrators remains a dark and hidden chapter … Continued The post China’s Tiananmen reckoning appeared first on read more →
Hong Kong ‘will be over’ if extradition law is passed, activist says
KENJI KAWASE, Nikkei Asian Review chief business news correspondent JUNE 13, 2019 20:32 JST Agnes Chow will continue fight for democracy, but worried of consequences TOKYO — While Hong Kong citizens take to the streets protesting against a controversial extradition law, a prominent pro-democracy activist from the city is in read more →
Hong Kong is in danger. China’s promise of democracy was a lie
Read the original article here. The ninth of June 2019 was a Sunday. Any other Sunday in summer at Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, old men and women would do their usual walkabouts and maids would gather, spread out groundsheets, cover … Continued The post Hong Kong is in danger. China’s read more →
Hong Kong Was My Refuge, Now Its Freedom Is at Stake
By Ma Jian, Read the original article here. Until it was handed over to China by the British in 1997, Hong Kong was a safe haven for dissident writers and artists. After my first book was banned by the Chinese … Continued The post Hong Kong Was My Refuge, Now read more →
US Lawmakers Want An Examination Of The US Money Funding Surveillance Tech In China
US lawmakers are urging institutions to reevaluate their financial relationships with facial recognition companies operating in Xinjiang, China, in light of a BuzzFeed News investigation that found US public pension funds, universities, and foundations are funding two startups developing technology used in … Continued The post US Lawmakers Want An Examination Of read more →
Thousands of Monks, Nuns Evicted From Sichuan’s Yachen Gar
Authorities in western China’s Sichuan province have recently forced nearly 3,500 monks and nuns from the Yachen Gar Tibetan Buddhist Center located in Kardze prefecture’s Palyul county, Tibetan sources say. In a campaign beginning in May, the removals targeted mainly … Continued The post Thousands of Monks, Nuns Evicted From read more →
Hong Kong crisis deepens as China extradition bill moves forward
By Timothy McLaughlin, Read the original article here. HONG KONG — Police cordoned off Hong Kong’s main legislative complex Tuesday as thousands of protesters streamed past in a show of resolve amid a deepening crisis over a proposed law that would … Continued The post Hong Kong crisis deepens as China read more →
Thousands of protesters paralyze Hong Kong’s financial hub over extradition bill
By James Pomfret, Jessie Pang, Read the original article here. HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chaotic scenes erupted in Hong Kong on Wednesday as tens of thousands of demonstrators stormed key roads next to government offices to protest against a proposed … Continued The post Thousands of protesters paralyze Hong Kong’s read more →
The Hong Kong Protests Are About More Than an Extradition Law
Huge 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 →