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China’s hi-tech police state in Xinjiang comes under global spotlight
What’s behind the newfound indignation of the US and other governments over China’s repression of its Muslim minorities?
chinaworker.info reporters
After decades of silence governments in Washington, Berlin, London, Ottawa and elsewhere ha...
Hong Kong
Carrie Lam’s policy address: “Pouring money into the sea”
Hong Kong’s unpopular government signals there’s worse to come
Hong Kong society under Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is anything other than ‘stable’. The government’s slump in popular support deepens as corruption scandals, a worsenin...
China
International solidarity against authoritarian rule in Hong Kong
Stop Repression in Hong Kong is an international campaign initiated by socialists and left organisations to protest the worsening crackdown on democratic rights in Hong Kong and China
chinaworker.info reporters
The Chinese dictatorship is presi...
China
Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation profiteering from state repression
“A tool of the government’s political crackdown”
Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info
Hong Kong’s state-owned rail giant MTR has expanded aggressively overseas in the past decade. The company has exploited the worldwide mania for privatisation of f...
Hong Kong
Steve Bannon met by protests in Hong Kong
“Solidarity with anti-Trump and anti-racist protests in USA!”
chinaworker.info reporters
Steve Bannon, the former “chief strategist” and far right guru of US president Donald Trump, delivered a speech in Hong Kong on 12 September as the gue...
Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s sham election
Pan-democrats sink to new low by supporting “lesser evil” John Tsang
Dikang, Socialist Action
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive election is a five-yearly political farce. It has been described as the world’s most bizarre election. Just 1,194 electors...
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Chief Executive election reveals political crisis
Beijing facing tough decisions over CY Leung’s replacement
Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info
Hong Kong’s hardline and deeply unpopular Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying announced on Friday 9 December that he would not stand for office again, for ‘f...
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Defend ‘Long Hair’ and other threatened lawmakers
Government purge widens to throw out four more lawmakers
Dikang, chinaworker.info
The purge of lawmakers in Hong Kong has widened as chinaworker.info and many others warned could be the case. Four elected legislators including veteran left-wing...
China
China: One year since Gui Minhai’s abduction
Criticism of foreign governments’ inactivity and connivance as China’s crackdown ‘goes global’
Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info
A year has passed since Gui Minhai disappeared in Thailand, on 17 October 2015. Gui, a Swedish citizen, is one of five ...
China
Xi Jinping’s first state visit to the US
Sino-US tensions increasing as China’s economy stumbles
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
China’s president Xi Jinping began his week-long visit to the United States, touching down in Seattle on Tuesday 22 September, where he met with top CEOs inc...
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“China’s rise” – an outdated view
New Cold War: Capitalist East and West are both in decline
Editorial, issue 75 of Socialist magazine (China magazine published by ISA in China, Hong ...
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