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, par ZHANG Yueran
What the world remembers about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were the students. But above all, it was a mass workers’ uprising for socialist democracy.
Public discourse on the 1989 Tiananmen Democracy Movement has been dominated by two narratives. The most prevalent interprets the (...)
, by PAK Mi-Hyang
Every year in June, the annual memorial of the Tiananmen Square crackdown is held around the world. The annual memorial was also held in Tokyo on June 4 this year. Many young people participated in it. On that day, many young Chinese who had no direct knowledge of the incident also attended (...)
, par Civil society groups
The trial of Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing will begin on 22 September 2023, a few days after the second anniversary of their arrest.
We, the undersigned civil society groups, are deeply concerned about this case and call for the two activists’ immediate and unconditional release, as they (...)
, by SPERBER Nathan
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman does not mince his words:
the signs are now unmistakable: China is in big trouble. We’re not talking about some minor setback along the way, but something more fundamental. The country’s whole way of doing business, the economic system that has (...)
, by DONG Yige
Struggles for women’s rights, and the state’s responses, have shifted over the history of the People’s Republic of China. In an initial period of socialist state feminism, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated “women’s liberation” and offered child-friendly services to facilitate women’s (...)
, by TING Gu
Tencent’s social media platform WeChat permanently closes 6 major accounts.
Chinese government censors have shut down key LGBTQ+ social media accounts in a further crackdown on sexual minorities.
Public accounts for the Beijing Lala Salon, Wandouhuang, Transtory, Outstanding Partners, Ace (...)
, by BANDURSKI David, GOLOD Vita
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, what he called a “special military operation.” The brutal aggression involved Russian troop advancements as well as relentless cruise and ballistic missile attacks on military and civilian targets. (...)
, by HUNG Ho-Fung
In the early 2010s, the economist Justin Lin Yifu, a former World Bank chief official with ties to the Chinese government, predicted that China’s economy would have at least two more decades of growth above 8%. He reckoned that since the country’s per capita income at that time was about the (...)
, by DAVIDSON Helen , HAWKINS Amy
Beijing believed to be aiming to rival US’s global maritime power and defeat western sanctions, report concludes
China’s military may be planning to build a host of overseas naval bases, as it hopes to protect shipping routes and strengthen its ability to resist sanctions from the US and its (...)
, by AU Loong-yu, LIU Xiang
’Nongguan’ (農管) [Agricultural Administration Officers] are a new form of policing that structures China’s food production planning
During China’s Great Leap Forward, there was a government slogan: “The key link of agriculture is grain and the key link of industry is steel.” In order to (...)
, by JI Siqi
• Waning confidence in China’s economic growth has been spreading, with its recovery appearing to have fizzled out after registering 4.5 per cent growth in the first quarter
• Global investment banks have revised down their second quarter sequential growth forecasts, down from over 4 per (...)
, by LI Promise
Prophets Unarmed: Chinese Trotskyists in Revolution, War, Jail, and the Return from Limbo Gregor Benton, editor Brill Historical Materialism Series, 2015; Haymarket Books, 2017, xvii + 1289 pages, $55 paperback.
JUST OVER 70 years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) extinguished the last (...)
, by THOMPSON Neil
Labor strikes are rising in China as weak demand sees factories shutter and workers’ pay cut.
Strikes in China’s manufacturing sector are rising amid a shaky domestic economic recovery and a global economy still weighed down by the war in Ukraine and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. (...)
, by HORE Charlie
Frank Dikötter is the best-selling popular historian of China today. In his latest work on the post-Mao years, Dikötter joins a long line of those predicting the speedy demise of the Chinese system, letting ideology get in the way of analysis.
Review of China After Mao: The Rise of a (...)
, par McKERNAN Bethan
Experts quash claims by Beijing that the Palestinian Authority president’s visit will facilitate new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
The Palestinian Authority president’s imminent state visit to China is believed even by senior Palestinian officials to be aimed at bolstering Beijing’s (...)
, by ZHANG Yueran
What the world remembers about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were the students. But above all, it was a mass workers’ uprising for socialist democracy.
Public discourse on the 1989 Tiananmen Democracy Movement has been dominated by two narratives. The most prevalent interprets the (...)
, by CHULUUN Tuugi
Despite China’s economic power, the yuan lags as a major global currency. Here’s why current US interest rates and sanctions on Russia may change that.
The Chinese economy’s sheer size and rapid growth are impressive.
China maintained one of the highest economic growth rates in the world (...)
, by HONG Yong-hui
In May, a Chinese non-profit organization the Beijing LGBT Center made a sudden statement: “We very regretfully announce, due to forces beyond our control, the Beijing LGBT Center will stop operating today”. And the organization was forced to suspend its activities under pressure from the (...)
, by International Service for Human Rights
A series of harsh convictions and new detentions, coming on the heels of high-level EU visits, demonstrate that despite its rhetoric, rule of law and universal rights remain anathema to the Chinese Communist Party. The international community needs to back words with action to prevent further (...)
, by DAVID Randy
There are about 10 million Catholics in today’s China. The majority of them worship in churches authorized and supervised by the government. They are officially called the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association. The rest of China’s Catholics, until recently, refused to attend these (...)
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