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Hong Kong: Kidnapped bookseller breaks silence
Explosive first hand account of abduction ordeal exposes the gangster methods of China’s regime
Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)
Appearing at a Hong Kong press conference more than eight months after his abduction and disappearance a...
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China: Li Keqiang’s ‘war against pollution’ is firing blanks
Jiangsu’s toxic school scandal highlights ecological catastrophe
Dahu, chinaworker.info
In March 2014 China’s premier Li Keqiang’s declared “war against pollution”. As smog levels in major eastern cities including Beijing went off the charts, t...
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China unleashes ‘white terror’ against protesting workers
Wave of repression – over 30 mineworkers arrested after Shuangyashan strike
Dahu, chinaworker.info
The so-called ‘Shuangyashan incident’ – a six-day strike by around 10,000 coal miners in March – has shaken the dictatorship of the CCP (Chinese ...
China
China: Massive job destruction has already begun
China’s rulers are destroying ten times as many coal mining jobs as Britain’s ‘Iron Lady’ Mrs Thatcher
chinaworker.info reporters
A tsunami of job destruction is heading towards heavy industry in China. This is especially in the coal and steel ...
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Hong Kong: Protesters call for release of Guangdong labour activists
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, ...
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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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Capitalism in turmoil
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...
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What does China’s reserve ratio cut mean for its slowing economy?
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...
Hong Kong
Two different perspectives on Hong Kong’s mass protests
“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...
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China: Corruption probe begins against Zhou Yongkang
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...
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Sunflower movement transformed Taiwan’s political map
Important lessons from the mass struggle against the Ma government of March-April 2014
Vincent Kolo
Ten years ago, a mass movement erupted in Taiwan...
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