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“China’s most powerful legislative committee ruled Monday that Hong Kong will not have direct elections for its next leader in 2007, crushing hopes in the Chinese territory for a quick move toward full democracy.” For full report click here. A Xinhua translation of the NPC Standing Committee’s decision is available here.
Read MoreIn today’s Washington Post, Philip Pan has written a detailed report on the New Youth Study Group, a small group of Beijing college students who met occasionally to discuss political and social reform, and to write and distribute articles on these topics online. Four of their members, including the most prominent, Yang Zili, are now […]
Read MoreChina agreed today to indefinitely delay implementation of government encryption standards for new wireless equipment, which would have allowed the government to decrypt personal communications over wireless networks. CNET writes: “China is softening efforts to establish its own Wi-Fi security standard and will adopt stringent new piracy prevention policies as part of a broad trade […]
Read MoreIn an opinion piece in today’s International Herald Tribune, Elizabeth Economy writes that: “Throughout China, people have become energized by their desire to contribute to the protection of nature. In so doing, they have also set the pace for the advance of civil society and the development of democracy.” The full article is here.
Read MoreThree more articles about the crackdown on Southern Metropolis News: Publish and Be Damned, from today’s Guardian; China Tries Again to Curb Independent Press in South, from yesterday’s New York Times; and a translation of an article from the Chinese magazine Caijing.
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