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China social media: WeChat and the Surveillance State
By 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
By 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
Remarks 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
Source : 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
CNN, 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
Source: 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
UNPO, 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
By 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
By 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 →
China’s Confucius Institutes Threaten Global Freedom
BY CHERYL CASATI, Read the original article here. A web of controversial Chinese Communist Party-backed programs called Confucius Institutes (CIs) has been developed and hosted at universities across the United States. Now, however, the CIs’ pretense of promoting Chinese culture and … Continued The post China’s Confucius Institutes Threaten Global Freedom read more →
China Offers Money to Tibetans to Display Portraits of Xi Jinping
Read the original article here. Authorities in northwestern China’s Qinghai province are offering cash payments to impoverished Tibetan families to display portraits of Chinese President Xi Jinping in their homes, in a move aimed at enforcing Tibetan loyalty to Beijing, … Continued The post China Offers Money to Tibetans to read more →
‘Sacred day’: Chinese remember Tiananmen killings by fasting
By Lily Kuo, Read the original article here. Thirty years after crackdown, fasting is gaining traction to mark 4 June amid increasing censorship. For the past 29 years, Chen Wei has marked the anniversary of the bloody 4 June Tiananmen … Continued The post ‘Sacred day’: Chinese remember Tiananmen killings read more →
Thirty Years After Tiananmen: Someone Always Remembers
By Ian Johnson, Read the original article here. How people in China keep the memory of the massacre alive despite the government’s efforts to make them forget. BEIJING — In China, the Tiananmen Square massacre is not taught in any textbook, aired … Continued The post Thirty Years After Tiananmen: Someone Always read more →
Pompeo urges China to release human rights prisoners to mark Tiananmen crackdown
By Lesley Wroughton. Read the original article here. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday called on Beijing to mark the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising this week by releasing all prisoners jailed for fighting … Continued The post Pompeo urges China to release human read more →
World marks 30 years since Tiananmen massacre as China censors all mention
By Ben Westcott, Read the original article here. Hong Kong (CNN): As commemorations for the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre take place worldwide Tuesday, any coverage or discussion of the event will be tightly censored in China. Hundreds of people were killed on … Continued The post World marks 30 years since Tiananmen read more →