From OpenDemocracy.net: A healthy open society demands the free flow of information within and across its national boundaries. When internet use began to take off in China, it became a clich√© in the west to announce that it would prove the catalyst for real political and social change: the internet, the argument went, could not […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Sixteen years ago, on the night of June 4 1989, tanks moved into Tiananmen Square in Beijing and began the violent dispersal of the longest-running student demonstration the People’s Republic of China had seen… In the weeks after the violence, untold numbers fled abroad. To this day, others remain in prison. In […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: There are other ways for Beijing to achieve reunification with Taiwan than issuing military threats. The National People’s Congress, China’s parliament, has never been what you could call a radical body. So when it adopted the Taiwan secession law, a measure that gives China the right – in her own eyes at […]
Read MoreIn an article in the Guardian, Isabel Hilton observes: “It is difficult to pull off the modernisation of a society as complex as China’s without relaxing authoritarian controls… Beijing routinely suppresses news of civic protest, fearful that strikes and demonstrations might coalesce into something more organised. They feared that Zhao Ziyang’s death might galvanise just […]
Read MoreHong Kong’s government announced on Friday that September’s Legislative Council elections would be postponed for one year, confirming earlier reports and signals from establishment figures. The move was ostensibly...
Read MoreIn an episode of BBC Sounds as part of her series “China and the World,” Isabel Hilton gives an in-depth look at the the Chinese government’s influence campaigns overseas, in particular programs under the...
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The following article has been republished from Project Sinopsis, with permission. It is also...
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On Friday, President Xi Jinping delivered a nationally televised speech at a commemorative...
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President-elect Donald Trump followed up on a key campaign talking point on Monday by announcing...
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The U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris has been extended by one day after parties...
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