More than 100 join Hong Kong protest on International Human Rights Day
Sue Sparks, reprinted with kind permission of Hong Kong Free Press
More than a hundred people gathered at the Western District Police Station in Sai Ying Pun on 9 December, ...
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...
Chaos erupts again on China’s stock markets
Editorial from socialist newspaper Offensiv, weekly of the CWI in Sweden
Just when the world’s elite were sounding the ‘all clear’ the Shanghai stock exchange plummeted again. On Monday 27 July Chines...
China’s leaders in tough balancing act between growing debt mountain and falling growth rate
chinaworker.info
China’s central bank (PBOC) announced on Wednesday 4 February a half percentage point cut in banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR) in...
“Big business is trying to say that we are privileged”
Hong Kong-based journalist Shannon Van Sant interviewed billionaire Allan Zeman and protester Pa Sha. These segments of her interview were posted on her facebook page.
Two very different p...
Former security chief is the most senior scalp to be claimed by Xi Jinping’s anti-graft campaign
chinaworker.info
It was officially announced today that former security chief Zhou Yongkang is under investigation for “serious disciplinary violat...
Can the Chinese dictatorship survive another quarter of a century?
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
June 4th marks the 25th anniversary of the bloody massacre in Beijing that ended the mass student-led democracy movement which came close to topp...
Demonstrators call for trade pact to be withdrawn and for president to step down
CWI reporters in Taipei
This was the biggest demonstration in Taiwan’s history. In a clear sign that the island’s mass protest movement is gaining rather than losi...
Fight for a living wage met by brutal government crackdown
David Hundorf, chinaworker.info
When we march on International Women’s Day, 2014, special recognition should be accorded the women garment workers of Cambodia who staged a magnificent n...
Local government debt has soared but Beijing’s attempt to curb runaway credit misfires again
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
An end-of year scramble for funds by financial institutions drove up interbank lending rates to levels not seen since th...
